Deirdre Mccloskey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deirdre Mccloskey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deirdre |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccloskey |
| SIGNATURE | MCCLOSKEY D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations
I was honored that Lee Alston asked me to be the convener for the Nevins Prize Competition this year. There were close to a dozen submissions spanning a
Sliding into PoMo-ism from Samuelsonianism
I give a personal account of how I got from an economics that was “Samuelsonian” (usually called by its enemies, self-defeatingly, “mainstream”) to postmodernism and beyond. The postmodern conviction is humanistic, dating back to Erasmus and Aristotle: Words Matter. It opposes the vulgar Marxism, before Lenin and especially Gramsci challenged it, still advocated by some, such as Gary Becker and Richard Posner, that words (and parties) don't matte…
Politics in Scholarly Drag: Dreger’s Assault on the Critics of Bailey
Adam Smith, the Last of the Former Virtue Ethicists
Smith was mainly an ethical philosopher, though he practiced what was considered for a long time after Smith an obsolete sort of ethical philosophy, known nowadays as "virtue ethics." Since 1790 most ethical theory as practiced in departments of philosophy has derived instead from Kant or Bentham, but virtue ethics has recently come back. From the Seven Primary Virtues, Smith chose five to admire especially. He chose all four of the pagan and sto…
Hobbes, Nussbaum, and All Seven of the Virtues
Polanyi and the history of capitalism: Rejoinder to Blyth
Mark Blyth's rebuttal to our constructive critique of Polanyi “blithely” takes for granted the accuracy of Polanyi's now‐outdated historiography of capitalism—by means of a loose, overly expansive definition of capitalism that question‐beggingly equates it with modernity. Blyth emphasizes the need to view markets as “socially embedded,” with which we agree—but he appears not to take account of the individual self‐interest that is thus embedded. S…
How to be Human: Though an Economist
Postmodern market feminism: A conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(2000). Postmodern market feminism: A conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 27-37
The reproving of Karl Polanyi
Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation has had enormous influence since its publication in 1944. In form, this influence has been salutary: Polanyi targets one of the main weaknesses of modern economics. But in substance, Polanyi's influence has been baneful. Mirroring the methodological blindness he criticizes, Polanyi insists on the all-or-nothing existence/ nonexistence of laissez faire-and on its all-or-nothing goodness/badness
Simulating Barbara
Barbara Bergmann has a tough style of confrontation and a scientific style asking How Big Is Big. Economics would be a lot better off if it dropped Mathematical 'Proof' and Statistical 'Significance' and started simulating Barbara
Love and money: A comment on the markets debate
It is true that economics needs a theory of moral sentiments along with an account of the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. Economics is damaged analytically by ignoring love, or care. But love is not always nice, and is sometimes a threat to freedom
Burdens of Proof in Modern Discourse . Richard H. Gaskins
The reproving of Karl Polanyi
Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation has had enormous influence since its publication in 1944. In form, this influence has been salutary: Polanyi targets one of the main weaknesses of modern economics. But in substance, Polanyi's influence has been baneful. Mirroring the methodological blindness he criticizes, Polanyi insists on the all-or-nothing existence/ nonexistence of laissez faire-and on its all-or-nothing goodness/badness
Adam Smith, the Last of the Former Virtue Ethicists
Smith was mainly an ethical philosopher, though he practiced what was considered for a long time after Smith an obsolete sort of ethical philosophy, known nowadays as "virtue ethics." Since 1790 most ethical theory as practiced in departments of philosophy has derived instead from Kant or Bentham, but virtue ethics has recently come back. From the Seven Primary Virtues, Smith chose five to admire especially. He chose all four of the pagan and sto…
Polanyi and the history of capitalism: Rejoinder to Blyth
Mark Blyth's rebuttal to our constructive critique of Polanyi “blithely” takes for granted the accuracy of Polanyi's now‐outdated historiography of capitalism—by means of a loose, overly expansive definition of capitalism that question‐beggingly equates it with modernity. Blyth emphasizes the need to view markets as “socially embedded,” with which we agree—but he appears not to take account of the individual self‐interest that is thus embedded. S…
Postmodern market feminism: A conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(2000). Postmodern market feminism: A conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 27-37
Sliding into PoMo-ism from Samuelsonianism
I give a personal account of how I got from an economics that was “Samuelsonian” (usually called by its enemies, self-defeatingly, “mainstream”) to postmodernism and beyond. The postmodern conviction is humanistic, dating back to Erasmus and Aristotle: Words Matter. It opposes the vulgar Marxism, before Lenin and especially Gramsci challenged it, still advocated by some, such as Gary Becker and Richard Posner, that words (and parties) don't matte…
Politics in Scholarly Drag: Dreger’s Assault on the Critics of Bailey
Love and money: A comment on the markets debate
It is true that economics needs a theory of moral sentiments along with an account of the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. Economics is damaged analytically by ignoring love, or care. But love is not always nice, and is sometimes a threat to freedom
Burdens of Proof in Modern Discourse . Richard H. Gaskins
Simulating Barbara
Barbara Bergmann has a tough style of confrontation and a scientific style asking How Big Is Big. Economics would be a lot better off if it dropped Mathematical 'Proof' and Statistical 'Significance' and started simulating Barbara
The reproving of Karl Polanyi
Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation has had enormous influence since its publication in 1944. In form, this influence has been salutary: Polanyi targets one of the main weaknesses of modern economics. But in substance, Polanyi's influence has been baneful. Mirroring the methodological blindness he criticizes, Polanyi insists on the all-or-nothing existence/ nonexistence of laissez faire-and on its all-or-nothing goodness/badness
How to be Human: Though an Economist
Postmodern market feminism: A conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(2000). Postmodern market feminism: A conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 27-37
Polanyi and the history of capitalism: Rejoinder to Blyth
Mark Blyth's rebuttal to our constructive critique of Polanyi “blithely” takes for granted the accuracy of Polanyi's now‐outdated historiography of capitalism—by means of a loose, overly expansive definition of capitalism that question‐beggingly equates it with modernity. Blyth emphasizes the need to view markets as “socially embedded,” with which we agree—but he appears not to take account of the individual self‐interest that is thus embedded. S…
Hobbes, Nussbaum, and All Seven of the Virtues
Politics in Scholarly Drag: Dreger’s Assault on the Critics of Bailey
Adam Smith, the Last of the Former Virtue Ethicists
Smith was mainly an ethical philosopher, though he practiced what was considered for a long time after Smith an obsolete sort of ethical philosophy, known nowadays as "virtue ethics." Since 1790 most ethical theory as practiced in departments of philosophy has derived instead from Kant or Bentham, but virtue ethics has recently come back. From the Seven Primary Virtues, Smith chose five to admire especially. He chose all four of the pagan and sto…
Sliding into PoMo-ism from Samuelsonianism
I give a personal account of how I got from an economics that was “Samuelsonian” (usually called by its enemies, self-defeatingly, “mainstream”) to postmodernism and beyond. The postmodern conviction is humanistic, dating back to Erasmus and Aristotle: Words Matter. It opposes the vulgar Marxism, before Lenin and especially Gramsci challenged it, still advocated by some, such as Gary Becker and Richard Posner, that words (and parties) don't matte…
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations
I was honored that Lee Alston asked me to be the convener for the Nevins Prize Competition this year. There were close to a dozen submissions spanning a
Sociology (8 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Economic Theory and Institutions (3 works)