This essential book collects together, for the first time, the writings of Deirdre McCloskey on economic history and the rhetoric of economics. The essays have been presented to show McCloskey's evolution over time: from economist to critic, positivist to postmodernist, conventional economist to feminist economist, man to woman. Measurement and Meaning in Economics allows the reader to experience an astonishing personal and intellectual journey with one of today's most fascinating economists.
McCloskey argues that economics has become ahistorical and narrowly scientific, which is a harmful development for a moral science. In all of the papers presented in this volume she writes with historical consciousness and critical understanding, in an attempt to repair the dysfunctional relationship between economics and the humanities.
This book should be read not only by students and scholars of economic history and philosophy, but by all those concerned with the state of economics and its place in the social sciences.
| ISBN: | 9781843761747 |
| Publication date: | 15th November 2002 |
| Author: | Deirdre N McCloskey |
| Publisher: | Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 416 pages |
| Series: | Economists of the Twentieth Century |
| Genres: |
Economic theory and philosophy Economic history |
This essential book collects together, for the first time, the writings of Deirdre McCloskey on economic history and the rhetoric of economics. The essays have been presented to show McCloskey's evolution over time: from economist to critic, positivist to postmodernist, conventional economist to feminist economist, man to woman. Measurement and Meaning in Economics allows the reader to experience an astonishing personal and intellectual journey with one of today's most fascinating economists.
McCloskey argues that economics has become ahistorical and narrowly scientific, which is a harmful development for a moral science. In all of the papers presented in this volume she writes with historical consciousness and critical understanding, in an attempt to repair the dysfunctional relationship between economics and the humanities.
This book should be read not only by students and scholars of economic history and philosophy, but by all those concerned with the state of economics and its place in the social sciences.
Measurement and Meaning in Economics features in the following genres: Economic theory and philosophy, Economic history
Measurement and Meaning in Economics is available in Paperback, Hardback
Measurement and Meaning in Economics was written by Deirdre N McCloskey and published by Edward Elgar Publishing
Measurement and Meaning in Economics has 416 pages
Yes it is part of Economists of the Twentieth Century series