Deirdre Mccloskey: 4 books

Neste manifesto para uma plateia interdisciplinar, a economista e historiadora Deirdre McCloskey coloca em xeque o modo como a economia vem produzindo dados e gerando conhecimento nas últimas décadas. Com seu tom provocador, perpassado por ironias e alfinetadas, McCloskey parte do princípio de...

 There’s little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The poorest of humanity, McCloskey shows, will soon...

“McCloskey and Ziliak have been pushing this very elementary, very correct, very important argument through several articles over several years and for reasons I cannot fathom it is still resisted. If it takes a book to get it across, I hope this book will do it. It ought to.” —Thomas...

For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken’s “booboisie” and David Brooks’s “bobos”—all...