Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
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in Ann Arbor, Michigan, The United States
September 11, 1942
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Economical Writing
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1999
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Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
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2010
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The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce
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2006
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Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World
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2016
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Crossing
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1999
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The Rhetoric of Economics
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1985
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Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All
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Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World
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2020
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The Secret Sins of Economics
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2002
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The Myth of the Entrepreneurial State
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“Nor during the Age of Innovation have the poor gotten poorer, as people are always saying. On the contrary, the poor have been the chief beneficiaries of modern capitalism. It is an irrefutable historical finding, obscured by the logical truth that the profits from innovation go in the first act mostly to the bourgeois rich.”
― Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
― Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
“Virginia Woolf wrote famously, “About December 1910 human nature changed.” Well, one doubts it. What did change, and has been changing all through the closing decades of the 19th century, is that the intelligentsia became increasingly alienated from the bourgeois world from which it sprung, and wished to become something Higher. It wished to make novels difficult and technical – think of Woolf or Joyce – to keep them out of the hands of the uneducated and to elevate the intelligentsia to a new clerisy, a new aristocracy of the spirit. Similarly in painting, music, and philosophy. It wished to make everything difficult and technical, and it succeeded. [Economists Lawrence] Klein, [Paul] Samuelson, and [Jan] Tinbergen were middle-period modernists.
The vices of modernism come from the master vice of Pride, the vice so characteristic of an actual or wannabe aristocracy. It is prideful overreaching to think that social engineering can work, that a smart lad at a blackboard can outwit the wisdom of the world or the ages, that a piece of machinery like statistical significance can tell you how big or small a number is.”
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The vices of modernism come from the master vice of Pride, the vice so characteristic of an actual or wannabe aristocracy. It is prideful overreaching to think that social engineering can work, that a smart lad at a blackboard can outwit the wisdom of the world or the ages, that a piece of machinery like statistical significance can tell you how big or small a number is.”
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“For reasons I do not entirely understand, the clerisy after 1848 turned toward nationalism and socialism, and against liberalism, and came also to delight in an ever-expanding list of pessimisms about the way we live now in our approximately liberal societies, from the lack of temperance among the poor to an excess of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Antiliberal utopias believed to offset the pessimisms have been popular among the clerisy. Its pessimistic and utopian books have sold millions. But the twentieth-century experiments of nationalism and socialism, of syndicalism in factories and central planning for investment, of proliferating regulation for imagined but not factually documented imperfections in the market, did not work. And most of the pessimisms about how we live now have proven to be mistaken. It is a puzzle. Perhaps you yourself still believe in nationalism or socialism or proliferating regulation. And perhaps you are in the grip of pessimism about growth or consumerism or the environment or inequality. Please, for the good of the wretched of the earth, reconsider.”
― Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World
― Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World
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