Deirdre N. McCloskey
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The cult of statistical significance
Another report from the struggle to dethrone Fisherite statistical-significance tests as a measure of the quality and importance of experimental results.
Economical writing
A series of short (1 to 3 page) chapters in a small (5 by 7 inch) book about writing, aimed at economists but useful for any technical writers.
Knowledge and persuasion in economics
Is economics a science? Donald McCloskey, a leading economist and historian, says "Yes, but . . .". Yes, economics measures and predicts, but - like other sciences - it uses literary methods too. Economists use stories like geologists do, and metaphors like physicists do. The result is that the sciences, economics among them must be read as "rhetoric," in the ancient and honourable sense of writing with intent. McCloskey's books, The rhetoric of economics (1985) and If you're so smart (1990) have been widely discussed. In Knowledge and persuasion in economics he converses with his critics, suggesting that they too can gain from knowing their rhetoric. The humanistic and mathematical approaches to economics, says McCloskey, fit together in a new "interpretive" economics. Along the way he places economics within the sciences, examines the role of mathematics in the field, replies to critics from the left, right and centre, and shows how economics can take again a leading place in the conversation of humankind. This highly readable book offers an insider's guide to the intersection of economics and philosophy.
A bibliography of historical economics to 1980
Donald McCloskey, has compiled, with the help of George Hersh and a panel of distinguished advisors, the only bibliography of historical economics.
The rhetoric of economics
A classic in its field, this pathbreaking book humanized the scientific rhetoric of economics to reveal its literary soul. In this completely revised second edition, Deirdre N. McCloskey demonstrates how economic discourse employs metaphor, authority, symmetry, and other rhetorical means of persuasion. The Rhetoric of Economics shows economists to be human persuaders, poets of the marketplace, even in their most technical and mathematical moods.