{"title":"Deirdre Nansen McCloskey","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeirdre Nansen McCloskey\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the intersection of economics, philosophy, and social science with a provocative and insightful voice. Her works challenge traditional perspectives, offering fresh approaches to understanding economic theory and the cultural forces shaping markets and human behaviour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders will find a blend of rigorous scholarship and engaging argumentation that extends beyond conventional economics, touching on themes of liberalism, institutional change, and the human values that underpin economic activity. Her books are essential for anyone interested in political economy and the intellectual currents of contemporary thought.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"leave-me-alone-and-ill-make-you-rich-by-deirdre-nansen-mccloskey-9780226823980","title":"Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defence, unrivalled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, \u003ci\u003eThe Bourgeois Virtues\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBourgeois Dignity\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBourgeois Equality\u003c\/i\u003e, solve Adam Smith’s puzzle of the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, and of the moral sentiments of modernity. The world got rich, she argues, not chiefly by material causes but by an idea and a sentiment, a new admiration for the middle class and its egalitarian liberalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor readers looking for a distillation of McCloskey’s magisterial work, \u003ci\u003eLeave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich\u003c\/i\u003e is what you’ve been waiting for. In this lively volume, McCloskey and the economist and journalist Art Carden bring together the trilogy’s key ideas and its most provocative arguments. The rise of the West, and now the rest, is the story of the rise of ordinary people to a dignity and liberty inspiring them to have a go. The outcome was an explosion of innovation after 1800, and a rise of real income by an astounding 3,000 percent. The Great Enrichment, well beyond the conventional Industrial Revolution, did not, McCloskey and Carden show, come from the usual suspects, capital accumulation or class struggle. It came from the idea of economic liberty in Holland and the Anglosphere, then Sweden and Japan, then Italy and Israel and China and India, an idea that bids fair in the next few generations to raise up the wretched of the earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe original shift to liberalism arose from 1517 to 1789 from theological and political revolutions in northwest Europe, upending ancient hierarchies. McCloskey and Carden contend further that liberalism and “innovism” made us better humans as well as richer ones. Not matter but ideas. Not corruption but improvement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich\u003c\/i\u003e draws in entertaining fashion on history, economics, literature, philosophy, and popular culture, from growth theory to \u003ci\u003eThe Simpsons\u003c\/i\u003e. It is the perfect introduction for a broad audience to McCloskey’s influential explanation of how we got rich. At a time when confidence in the economic system is under challenge, the book mounts an optimistic and persuasive defence of liberal innovism, and of the modern world it has wrought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46833253581036,"sku":"9780226823980","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/20468083482268.jpg?v=1758448437"},{"product_id":"bettering-humanomics-by-deirdre-nansen-mccloskey-9780226826516","title":"Bettering Humanomics","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeirdre Nansen McCloskey's latest meticulous work examines how economics can become a more \"human\" science.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEconomic 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 \u003cem\u003eBettering Humanomics\u003c\/em\u003e she continues her intellectually playful yet rigorous analysis with a focus on humans rather than the institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGoing against the grain of contemporary neo-institutional and behavioural economics which privilege observation over understanding, she asserts her vision of “humanomics,” which draws on the work of Bart Wilson, Vernon Smith, and most prominently, Adam Smith. She argues for an economics that uses a comprehensive understanding of human action beyond behaviourism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMcCloskey clearly articulates her points of contention with believers in “imperfections,” from Samuelson to Stiglitz, claiming that they have neglected scientific analysis in their haste to diagnose the ills of the system. In an engaging and erudite manner, she reaffirms the global successes of market-tested betterment and calls for empirical investigation that advances from material incentives to an awareness of the human within historical and ethical frameworks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBettering Humanomics\u003c\/em\u003e offers a critique of contemporary economics and a proposal for an economics as a better human science.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47423835406572,"sku":"9780226826516","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226826516.jpg?v=1774769814"},{"product_id":"leave-me-alone-and-ill-make-you-rich-by-deirdre-nansen-mccloskey-9780226739663","title":"Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defence, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, \u003ci\u003eThe Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBourgeois Equality,\u003c\/i\u003e solve Adam Smith’s puzzle of the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, and of the moral sentiments of modernity. The world got rich, she argues, not chiefly by material causes but by an idea and a sentiment, a new admiration for the middle class and its egalitarian liberalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor readers looking for a distillation of McCloskey’s magisterial work, \u003ci\u003eLeave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich\u003c\/i\u003e is what you’ve been waiting for. In this lively volume, McCloskey and the economist and journalist Carden bring together the trilogy’s key ideas and its most provocative arguments. The rise of the west, and now the rest, is the story of the rise of ordinary people to a dignity and liberty inspiring them to have a go. 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The behaviourist positivism fashionable in the field since the 1930s treats people from the outside. It yielded in Williamson and North a manipulative neo-institutionalism.\n\nMcCloskey argues that institutions as causes are mainly temporary and intermediate, not ultimate. They are human-made, depending on words, myth, ethics, ideology, history, identity, professionalism, gossip, movies, what your mother taught you. Humans create conversations as they go, in the economy as in the rest of life.\n\nIn engaging and erudite prose, McCloskey exhibits in detail the scientific failures of neo-institutionalism. She proposes a “humanomics,” an economics with the humans left in. Humanomics keeps theory, quantification, experiment, mathematics, econometrics, though insisting on more true rigour than is usual. It adds what can be learned about the economy from history, philosophy, literature, and all the sciences of humans.\n\nMcCloskey reaffirms the durability of “market-tested innovation” against the imagined imperfections to be corrected by a perfect government. 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Erudite, but marvellously accessible and written in a style that is at once colloquial and astringent.\"—Stanley Fish\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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 eighteenth-century philosophers like Locke, Smith, Voltaire, and Wollstonecraft is good for everyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith her trademark wit and deep understanding, McCloskey shows how the adoption of Enlightenment ideals of liberalism has propelled the freedom and prosperity that define the quality of a full life. 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