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Bourgeois Equality

How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World

by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey ...

How standards of living have skyrocketed since 1800, and the political philosophy that made it possible: "Persuasive…richly detailed and erudite."— Financial TimesThere's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in this concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the ... Read more

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How standards of living have skyrocketed since 1800, and the political philosophy that made it possible: "Persuasive…richly detailed and erudite."— Financial TimesThere's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in this concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the
... Read more
The Cult of Statistical Significance

How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Steve Ziliak ...

Series series Economics, Cognition, And Society
“McCloskey and Ziliak have been pushing this very elementary, very correct, very important argument through several articles over several years and for reasons I cannot fathom it is still resisted. If it takes a book to get it across, I hope this book will do it. It ought to.”—Thomas Schelling, Distinguished University Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, and 2005 Nobel ... Read more

$21.99 CAD

“McCloskey and Ziliak have been pushing this very elementary, very correct, very important argument through several articles over several years and for reasons I cannot fathom it is still resisted. If it takes a book to get it across, I hope this book will do it. It ought to.”—Thomas Schelling, Distinguished University Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, and 2005 Nobel
... Read more
Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich

How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World

by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Art Carden ...

A "thought-provoking" one-volume distillation of the author's powerful trilogy in praise of the middle class's role in creating a better, and richer, world ( Library Journal).The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois ... Read more

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A "thought-provoking" one-volume distillation of the author's powerful trilogy in praise of the middle class's role in creating a better, and richer, world ( Library Journal).The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois
... Read more

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Why Liberalism Works

How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All

by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey ...

An insightful and passionately written book explaining why a return to Enlightenment ideals is good for the worldThe greatest challenges facing humankind, according to Deirdre McCloskey, are poverty and tyranny, both of which hold people back. Arguing for a return to true liberal values, this engaging and accessible book develops, defends, and demonstrates how embracing the ideas first espoused by ... Read more

$31.99 CAD

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An insightful and passionately written book explaining why a return to Enlightenment ideals is good for the worldThe greatest challenges facing humankind, according to Deirdre McCloskey, are poverty and tyranny, both of which hold people back. Arguing for a return to true liberal values, this engaging and accessible book develops, defends, and demonstrates how embracing the ideas first espoused by
... Read more

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Why Liberalism Works

How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All

by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey ...

An insightful and passionately written book explaining why a return to Enlightenment ideals is good for the worldThe greatest challenges facing humankind, according to Deirdre McCloskey, are poverty and tyranny, both of which hold people back. Arguing for a return to true liberal values, this engaging and accessible book develops, defends, and demonstrates how embracing the ideas first espoused by ... Read more

$31.99 CAD

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An insightful and passionately written book explaining why a return to Enlightenment ideals is good for the worldThe greatest challenges facing humankind, according to Deirdre McCloskey, are poverty and tyranny, both of which hold people back. Arguing for a return to true liberal values, this engaging and accessible book develops, defends, and demonstrates how embracing the ideas first espoused by
... Read more

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Bettering Humanomics

A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science

by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey ...

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey's latest meticulous work examines how economics can become a more "human" science.Economic historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has distinguished herself through her writing on the Great Enrichment and the betterment of the poor—not just materially but spiritually. In Bettering Humanomics she continues her intellectually playful yet rigorous analysis with a focus on humans ... Read more

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Deirdre Nansen McCloskey's latest meticulous work examines how economics can become a more "human" science.Economic historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has distinguished herself through her writing on the Great Enrichment and the betterment of the poor—not just materially but spiritually. In Bettering Humanomics she continues her intellectually playful yet rigorous analysis with a focus on humans
... Read more
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The Bourgeois Virtues

Ethics for an Age of Commerce

by Deirdre N. McCloskey ...

Narrated by Marguerite Gavin ...

Unabridged

23 hours 12 min

For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken’s “booboisie” and David Brooks’s “bobos”—all have been, and still are, framed as being responsible for everything from financial to moral poverty, world wars, ... Read more

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For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken’s “booboisie” and David Brooks’s “bobos”—all have been, and still are, framed as being responsible for everything from financial to moral poverty, world wars,
... Read more
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Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich

How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World

by Deirdre N. McCloskey, Art Carden ...

Narrated by Kim Niemi ...

Unabridged

7 hours 26 min

The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, and Bourgeois Equality, solve Adam Smith's puzzle of the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, and of the moral sentiments of modernity. The ... Read more

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The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, and Bourgeois Equality, solve Adam Smith's puzzle of the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, and of the moral sentiments of modernity. The
... Read more

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Beyond Positivism, Behaviorism, and Neoinstitutionalism in Economics

by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey ...

A penetrating analysis from one of the defining voices of contemporary economics.In Beyond Positivism, Behaviorism, and Neoinstitutionalism in Economics, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey zeroes in on the authoritarian cast of recent economics, arguing for a re-focusing on the liberated human. The behaviorist positivism fashionable in the field since the 1930s treats people from the outside. It yielded in ... Read more

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A penetrating analysis from one of the defining voices of contemporary economics.In Beyond Positivism, Behaviorism, and Neoinstitutionalism in Economics, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey zeroes in on the authoritarian cast of recent economics, arguing for a re-focusing on the liberated human. The behaviorist positivism fashionable in the field since the 1930s treats people from the outside. It yielded in
... Read more
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Bourgeois Equality

How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World

by Deirdre N. McCloskey ...

Narrated by Marguerite Gavin ...

Unabridged

29 hours 38 min

There’s little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The poorest of humanity, McCloskey shows, will soon be joining the comparative riches of Japan and Sweden and Botswana.Why? Most economists—from Adam Smith ... Read more

$50.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

There’s little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The poorest of humanity, McCloskey shows, will soon be joining the comparative riches of Japan and Sweden and Botswana.Why? Most economists—from Adam Smith
... Read more
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Bourgeois Dignity

Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

by Deirdre N. McCloskey ...

Narrated by Marguerite Gavin ...

Unabridged

20 hours 42 min

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an explosion in economic growth and proof that economic change depends less on foreign trade, investment, or material causes, and a whole lot more on ... Read more

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The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an explosion in economic growth and proof that economic change depends less on foreign trade, investment, or material causes, and a whole lot more on
... Read more
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Equality of Permission

The Politics of Feasible Liberalism

by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey ...

Narrated by Emily Schwing ...

Unabridged

9 hours 43 min

From a revered public intellectual, an essential argument for the political preconditions of a liberal society.Liberalism has always suffered from messaging challenges. It simultaneously implies a pursuit of individual liberty and social equality, two projects often regarded as at odds. Or: Liberal means the opposite of conservative. Except when it doesn’t. The list goes on.Liberal bard Deirdre ... Read more

$23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

From a revered public intellectual, an essential argument for the political preconditions of a liberal society.Liberalism has always suffered from messaging challenges. It simultaneously implies a pursuit of individual liberty and social equality, two projects often regarded as at odds. Or: Liberal means the opposite of conservative. Except when it doesn’t. The list goes on.Liberal bard Deirdre
... Read more

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