The Vices of Economists; The Virtues of the Bourgeoisie - Hardcover

McCloskey, Deirdre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9053562443 ISBN 13: 9789053562444

Verlag: Amsterdam University Press, 1997

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Reseña del editor:

The 'vices' are three bad habits into which economists have fallen over the past fifty years: bad statistics, bad theory, and bad applications of statistics and theory to public affairs. This book details the vices, tracing them to the influence of three giants of the 1940s and 1950s in economics, the Americans Lawrence Klein and Paul Samuelson, and the Dutchman Jan Tinbergen. McCloskey recommends a 'bourgeois', even feminine, virtue to replace the aristocratic and masculine vices of modern economics. She sees intellectual life as a bourgeois market of negotiating equals. What is good for a liberal democracy is good for intellectual life, she argues, even in the forbiddingly mathematical world of modern economics.

Biografía del autor:

Deirdre N. McCloskey is distinguished professor of economics, history, English, and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Among her many books are The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, Bourgeois Equality, Crossing: A Memoir; The Secret Sins of Economics, and If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

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• Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 9053562443
• ISBN 13: 9789053562444
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 135