Measurement and Meaning in Economics: The Essential Deirdre McCloskey - Couverture souple

McCloskey, Deirdre N.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1843761742 ISBN 13 : 9781843761747

Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Deirdre N. McCloskey, UIC Distinguished Professor of Economics, History and English, University of Illinois, Chicago, US and Tinbergen Professor of Economics, Philosophy, Art and Cultural Studies, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Edited and with an introduction by Stephen Thomas Ziliak, Associate Professor of Economics, School of Policy Studies, Roosevelt University, US

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1843761742
• ISBN 13: 9781843761747
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Éditeur: Ziliak Stephen T.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible