Articles by Deirdre McCloskey

Draft Articles Available

  1. "Irish [and Dutch and Other] Poets, learn Your Trade: The Political Economy of European Poetry" [Irish and Dutch Poetry], for a session at the Modern Language Association meetings in Chicago, December 2, 2007
  2. "Review of Marglin's The Dismal Economy" [MMargline Review] for the Times Higher Education Supplement, March 2008
  3. "How to Buy, Sell, Make, Manage, Produce, Transact, Consume with Words"
  4. "Keukentafel Economics and the History of British Imperialism"
  5. "Reply to Comments by Sandra Peart and David Levy On The Bourgeois Virtues"
  6. "Talking Capitalism: Schumpeter and Galbraith"
  7. "Adam Smith, the Last of the Former Virtue Ethicists"
  8. "Why Economics is On the Wrong Track"
  9. "Bourgeois Ideology as Rhetoric"
  10. "The Prehistory of American Thrift"
  11. "Queer Markets" (forthcoming in Kevin Barnhurst, ed. Media/Queered: Visibility and its Discontents).
  12. [with Stephen Ziliak] "Preface to The Standard Error: How Some Sciences Lost Interest in Magnitude, and What to Do About It"

(1.) British Enterprise in the 19th Century

  1. "Productivity Change in British Pig Iron, 1870-1939," Quarterly Journal of Economics 82 (May 1968): 281-96.
  2. "Did Victorian Britain Fail?" Economic History Review 23 (Dec 1970): 446-59.
  3. "International Differences in Productivity? Coal and Steel in America and Britain Before World War I," in Essays on a Mature Economy (1971), Chapter. 8, pp. 285-304.
  4. [co-authored with L. G. Sandberg] "From Damnation to Redemption: Judgments on the Late Victorian Entrepreneur," Explorations in Economic History 9 (Fall 1971): 89-108.

    Replies

  5. "Victorian Growth: A Rejoinder [to Derek Aldcroft]," Economic History Review 27 (May 1974): 275-77.
  6. "No It Did Not: A Reply to Craft [to his Comment on 'Did Victorian Britain Fail'?]" Economic History Review 32 (Nov 1979): 538-41.
  7. "A Counterfactual Dialogue with William Kennedy on Late Victorian Failure or the Lack of It," pp. 119-126 in McCloskey, Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain 1981 [1993].
  8. "Discussion" (of William Kennedy and William Phillips), Journal of Economic History 42 (Mar 1982): 117-118.
  9. "An Exchange with David Landes," pp. 305-309, in Essays on a Mature Economy (1971).

    Reviews

  10. Review of Birch, British Iron and Steel, Business History Review 43 (Fall 1969): 412-14.
  11. Review of Sandberg, Lancashire in Decline, Journal of Political Economy 84 (Feb 1976): 198-200.
  12. Review of Hannah, The Rise of the Corporate Economy: The British Experience, American Historical Review 82 (Dec, 1977): 1258-59.
  13. Review of Matthews, Feinstein, and Odling-Smee, British Economic Growth 1855-1973, Times Literary Supplement 462 (May 6, 1983): .
  14. Review of Kennedy's Industrial Structure, Capital Markets, and the Origins of British Economic Decline, Economic History Review 42 (Feb 1989): 141-143.
  15. Review of Thurow, The Zero-Sum Solution, Des Moines Register, Jan 9, 1986.

    Short Pieces

  16. "The British Iron and Steel Industry" Journal of Economic History 29 (Mar 1969): 173-75.
  17. "Is America in Decline?" Des Moines Register, Sept 1990. A revised version in The Key Reporter, 60 (2, Winter 1994-1995): 1-3. Trans. and distributed by United States Information Service in Bangladesh.
  18. "Competitiveness and the Anti-Economics of Decline," pp. 167-173 in McCloskey, ed., Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of U.S. Economic History (Oxford 1992).

(2.) British Foreign Trade in the 18th and 19th Centuries

  1. "Britain's Loss from Foreign Industrialization: A Provisional Estimate," Explorations in Economic History 8 (Winter 1970-71): 141-52.
  2. "Magnanimous Albion: Free Trade and British National Income, 1841-1881," Explorations in Economic History 17 (July, 1980): 303-320; reprinted Forrest Capie, ed. Protectionism in the World Economy (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1992).
  3. "From Dependence to Autonomy: Judgments on Trade as an Engine of British Growth." Pp. 139-154 in McCloskey, Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain (1981) (1993).
  4. [co-authored with R. P. Thomas] "Overseas Trade and Empire, 1700-1820," Chapter 4 in Floud and McCloskey, The Economic History of Britain, 1700-Present (1981), Vol. 1, pp. 87-102.
  5. [co-authored with C. K. Harley] "Foreign Trade: Competition and the Expanding International Economy, 1820-1914," Chapter 17 in Floud and McCloskey, The Economic History of Britain, 1700-Present (1981), Vol. 2, pp. 50-69.

    Replies

  6. "Reply to Peter Cain," Explorations in Economic History 19 (Apr 1982): 208-210.

(3.) The History of International Finance

  1. [co-authored with J. Richard Zecher] "How the Gold Standard Worked, 1880-1913," in J.A. Frenkel and H. G. Johnson, eds., The Monetary Approach to the Balance of Payments (Allen and Unwin, 1976), pp. 357-385; reprinted as pp. 63-80 in B. Eichengreen, ed., The Gold Standard in Theory and History (Methuen, 1985).
  2. [co-authored with J. Richard Zecher] "The Success of Purchasing Power Parity: Historical Evidence and Its Implications for Macroeconomics," in Michael Bordo and Anna J. Schwartz, eds., A Retrospective on the Classical Gold Standard 1821-1931 (NBER, University of Chicago Press, 1984), pp. 121-150.

    Reviews

  3. Review of Ramsey, The Price Revolution in 16th Century England, Journal of Political Economy 80 (Nov/Dec, 1972): 1332-35.
  4. "Mars Collides with Earth," review of Volcker and Gyohten, Changing Fortunes: The World's Money and the Threat to American Leadership," Reason, 24 (10, Mar 1993): 60-62.
  5. Review of Gray, False Dawn and Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Minnesota Journal of Global Trade 9(1), Winter 2000.
  6. Review of Niall Ferguson, The Cash Nexus, The American Scholar, Spring 2001.

    Short Pieces

  7. "The Gulliver Effect," Scientific American (Sept 1995): 44.
  8. Brief preface, "Globalization and the Money Market," for an edited volume of the Athenian Policy Forum Conference (N. Lash, ed.); 2001.

    Unpublished

  9. "The Extent of the Market: Market Integration in World History." For Lerici Conference on the Market in History, Apr 1993.

(4.) Open Fields and Enclosure in England


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  1. "The Enclosure of Open Fields: Preface to a Study of Its Impact on the Efficiency of English Agriculture in the Eighteenth Century," Journal of Economic History 32 (1, Mar, 1972): 15-35.
  2. "The Persistence of English Common Fields," in E. L. Jones and William Parker (eds.), European Peasants and Their Markets: Essays in Agrarian Economic History (Princeton University Press, 1975), pp. 73-119.
  3. "The Economics of Enclosure: A Market Analysis," in Jones and Parker, as cited, pp. 123-160.
  4. "English Open Fields as Behavior Towards Risk," Research in Economic History 1 (Fall 1976): 124-170.
  5. "Theses on Enclosure," pp. 56-72 in Papers Presented to the Economic History Society Conference at Canterbury, 1983. Agricultural History Society.
  6. [co-authored with John Nash] "Corn at Interest: The Extent and Cost of Grain Storage in Medieval England," American Economic Review 74 (Mar 1984): 174-187.
  7. "Open Field System," brief entry in Eatwell, Milgate, and Newman, eds. The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Thought and Doctrine (Macmillan U.K., 1987).
  8. "The Open Fields of England: Rent, Risk, and the Rate of Interest, 1300-1815," in David W. Galenson, ed., Markets in History: Economic Studies of the Past (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 5-51.
  9. "The Prudent Peasant: New Findings on Open Fields." Journal of Economic History 51 (2, June 1991): 343-355.

    Reviews

  10. Review of Williams, Draining of the Somerset Levels, Journal of Economic History 32 (4, Dec, 1972): 1021-23.
  11. Review of Popkin, The Rational Peasant and Macfarlane, The Origins of English Individualism, Journal of Political Economy, 89 (August 1981): 837-40. Reprinted in UCLA Writing Program (Ellen Strenski, ed., Cross-Disciplinary Conversations about Writing (NY: St. Martin's Press, 1989).
  12. Review of Turner, English Enclosures, Journal of Economic History 1982

    Replies

  13. "A Reply to Professor Charles Wilson," Journal of European Economic History 8 (Spring 1979): 203-207.
  14. "Another Way of Observing Open Fields: A Reply to A. R. H. Baker," Journal of Historical Geography 5 (Oct 1979): 427, 427-29.
  15. "Conditional Economic History: A Reply to Komlos and Landes," Economic History Review 44 (1, Feb 1991): 128-132.

    Short Pieces

  16. "Fenoaltea on Open Fields: A Comment," Explorations in Economic History 14 (Oct 1977): 402-404.
  17. "Scattering in Open Fields: A Comment on Michael Mazur's Article," Journal of European Economic History 9 (Spring, 1980): 209-214.
  18. "Comment on Petras and Havens's 'Peasant Behavior and Social Change--Cooperatives and Individual Holdings.'" Pp. 226-231 in Clifford S. Russell and N.K. Nicholson, eds. Public Choice and Rural Development, Washington, D.C., 1981.

    Unpublished

  19. "Allen's Enclosure and the Yeoman: The View from Tory Fundamentalism."
  20. Other draft chapters in an unfinished book, The Prudent and Faithful Peasant: An Essay on Pre-Modern History.

(5.) The Industrial Revolution


^top^See also Bourgeois Towns: How European Capitalism Became Ethical, 1600-1800, in preparation.
  1. "The Industrial Revolution" [The Industrial Revolution and Liberty] in The Handbook of Libertarianism, forthcoming 2008
  2. "The Industrial Revolution, 1780-1860: A Survey," Chapter 6 in Floud and McCloskey eds., The Economic History of Britain, 1700-Present (1981), Vol. 1, pp. 103-127, reprinted in J. Mokyr, ed. Economic History and the Industrial Revolution (Rowman and Littlefield, 1985).
  3. "The Industrial Revolution: A Survey," a new essay, in Floud and McCloskey, eds., The Economic History of Britain, 1700-Present, 2nd ed., 1994.
  4. "1066 and a Wave of Gadgets: The Achievements of British Growth," in Penelope Gouk, ed., Wellsprings of Achievement: Cultural and Economic Dynamics in Early Modern England and Japan (Variorum, 1995).

    Reviews

  5. Review of Hohenberg, Economic History of Europe, Kyklos (Nov 1971): 147.
  6. Review of Hawke, Railways and Economic Growth in England and Wales, 1840-1870, Economic History Review 24 (Aug 1971): 493-95
  7. Review of Hughes, Industrialization and Economic History: Theses and Conjectures, Journal of Modern History 44 (Mar 1972): 97-8.
  8. Review of Davis, Easterlin, Parker et al., American Economic Growth: An Economist's History of the United States, Journal of Economic History 32 (Dec 1972): 963-66.
  9. Review of Williamson, Late Nineteenth-Century American Development, Times Literary Supplement (Dec 12, 1975):
  10. Review of David, Technology and Nineteenth-Century Growth, Economic History Review 29 (May 1976): 340-42.
  11. Review of Reed, Investment in Railways in Britain, American Historical Review 82 (Feb 1977): 102.
  12. Review of Coleman, The Economy of England, 1450-1750, Journal of Economic Literature 16 (Mar, 1978): 108-110.
  13. Review of Rosenberg and Birdzell, How the West Grew Rich, New York Times Sunday Book Review, Feb 1986.
  14. Beyond the Margin, review of Joel Mokyr, The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress, Reason 22 (10, Mar 1991): 56-57.
  15. Review of Robert Reich, The Work of Nations, Chicago Tribune Book World, Mar 10, 1991, p. 3.
  16. "Squashing the Politically Correct in History," review of David Landes, Wealth and Poverty of Nations), Reason, June 1998.

    Short Pieces

  17. A shorter version of "The Industrial Revolution": "Economists Have Not Explained the First Industrial Revolution"
  18. "Once Upon a Time There was a Theory," Scientific American (Feb 1995): 25.

(6.) Other Historical Subjects


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  1. "New Perspectives on the Old Poor Law," Explorations in Economic History 10 (Summer 1973): 419-436.
  2. "Women's Work in the Market, 1900-2000," in Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, ed., Women in Twentieth-Century Britain, 2001 [also in Feminist Economics, below]

    Reviews

  3. "Review of "Wrigley (ed.), Nineteenth Century Society and Singer and Small, The Wages of War, 1816-1965," Journal of the American Statistical Association, Mar 1974.
  4. "Little Things Matter, review of Robert W. Fogel, Without Consent or Contract," Reason 22 (2, June 1990): 51-53.

    Short Pieces

  5. "A Mismeasurement of the Incidence of Taxation in Britain and France, 1715-1810," Journal of European Economic History 7 (1, Spring 1978): 209-10.
  6. "Comment on Hartwell's 'Taxation During the Industrial Revolution'," Cato Journal 1 (1, Spring 1981): 155-159.

(7.) Criticism in History and Economic History


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  1. "The New Economic History: An Introduction," Revista Storica Italiana (Mar, 1971: 5-22; in Italian); and Revista Espanola de Economia (May-Aug 1971; in Spanish).
  2. "Does the Past Have Useful Economics?" Journal of Economic Literature 14 (June 1976): 434-61. Translated into Russian for Thesis 1 (1, Spring 1993): 107-136. Reprinted in Diana Betts and Robert Whaples, eds. Readings in American Economic History, 1994.
  3. "The Achievements of the Cliometric School," Journal of Economic History 38 (1, Mar, 1978): 13-28.
  4. "The Problem of Audience in Historical Economics: Rhetorical Thoughts on a Text by Robert Fogel," History and Theory 24 (1, 1985): 1-22.
  5. [co-authored with Allan Megill] "The Rhetoric of History," pp. 221-238 in Nelson, Megill, and McCloskey, eds. The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences (University of Wisconsin Press, 1987).
  6. "The Storied Character of Economics," Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 101 (4, 1988): 543-654.
  7. "History, Differential Equations, and the Problem of Narration," History and Theory 30 (1, 1991): 21-36.
  8. "Ancients and Moderns" [presidential address, Social Science History Association, Washington, D.C., 1989]. Social Science History, 14 (3, Jan 1991): 289-303.
  9. "Kinks, Tools, Spurts, and Substitutes: Gerschenkron's Rhetoric of Relative Backwardness," Chapter 6 in Richard Sylla and Gianni Toniolo, eds. Patterns of European Industrialization: The Nineteenth Century (London: Routledge, 1991).
  10. "The Economics of Choice: Neoclassical Supply and Demand," in Thomas Rawski, ed., Economics and the Historian (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995): 122-158
  11. [co-authored with Santhi Hejeebu] "The Reproving of Karl Polanyi," Critical Review 13 (Summer/Fall 2000).

    Replies

  12. "Reply to Professor Klein," Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 102 (1989): 66-67.
  13. [With Santhi Hejeebu] "Polanyi and the History of Capitalism: Rejoinder to Blyth" Critical Review, 16(1) 2004.

    Reviews

  14. "Sliding Into PoMo-ism from Samuelsonianism" [Pomo Jack and David], in a special issue of Rethinking Marxism on Jack Amariglio and David Ruccio's Postmodern Moments in Economics, spring 2008
  15. "Creative Destruction vs. the New Industrial State," Review of McCraw's Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction and Galbraith's The New Industrial State, Reason magazine, October, 2007.
  16. Review of Boland, The Foundations of Economic Method, Journal of Economic Literature 23 (June 1985): 618-19.
  17. Review of Floud & Johnson, The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain, Times Higher Education Supplement 15 January 2004.

    Short Pieces

  18. "Introduction" to special issue of Explorations in Economic History 11 (Summer, 1974): 317-324.
  19. "The New Economic History in Britain" (in Italian), Quaderni Storici 31 (Dec 1976): 401-08.
  20. "Counterfactuals," article in Eatwell, Milgate, and Newman, eds. The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Thought and Doctrine (Macmillan, 1987).
  21. "Continuity in Economic History," article in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Thought and Doctrine (Macmillan, 1987), pp. 623-626.
  22. "Introduction" to McCloskey and Hersh, eds. A Bibliography of Historical Economics to 1980, Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. ix-xii.
  23. "Looking Forward into History." Introduction (pp. 3-10) to McCloskey, ed., Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of U.S. Economic History (Oxford, 1992).

(8.) Rhetorical Criticism in Economics


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  1. "The Rhetoric of Economics," Journal of Economic Literature 31 (June 1983): 482-517; reprinted in B. J. Caldwell, ed., Appraisal and Criticism in Economics (Allen and Unwin, 1985); translated into Japanese, Contemporary Economics 61 (Spring 1985), pp. 156-184; translated into French by F. Regard, as pp. 63-126 in Ludovic Frobert, "Si vous êtes si malins. . ." McCloskey et la rhétoqiue des economists. Lyon: ENS Éditions 2004 for École normale supérieure Lettres et sciences humaines. Lyon; translated into Hungarian for the journal Replika, forthcoming late 2006.
  2. "The Character of Argument in Modern Economics: How Muth Persuades," in Proceedings of the Third Summer Conference on Argumentation, sponsored by the Speech Communication Association and the American Forensic Association, Annandale, Va., Fall 1983, revised for The Rhetoric of Economics.
  3. "The Literary Character of Economics," Daedalus 113 (3, Summer 1984): 97-119. Three pages reprinted as pp. 20-22 in Mary M. Gergen and Kenneth J. Gergen, Social Construction: A Reader (London and Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2003).
  4. "Towards a Rhetoric of Economics," pp. 13-29 in G. C. Winston and R. F. Teichgraeber III, eds., The Boundaries of Economics, Murphy Institute Studies in Political Economy. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
  5. "Thick and Thin Methodologies in the History of Economic Thought." Pp. 245-257 in Neil de Mari, ed., The Popperian Legacy in Economics (Cambridge University Press, 1988).
  6. [co-authored with Arjo Klamer] "Economics in the Human Conversation," pp. 3-20 in Klamer, McCloskey, and Solow, eds., The Consequences of Rhetoric (Cambridge University Press, 1988).
  7. "The Consequences of Rhetoric," pp. 280-294 in Klamer, et al. eds., The Consequences of Rhetoric, Cambridge University Press, 1988 [reprinted in Fundamenta Scientiae 9 (2/3, 1988): 269-284 (a Brazilian journal)].
  8. "Their Blackboard, Right or Wrong: A Comment on Contested Exchange." Politics and Society 18 (2, June 1990): 223-232.
  9. "Storytelling in Economics." Pp. 5-22 in Christopher Nash and Martin Warner, eds., Narrative in Culture (Routledge 1990); and pp. 61-75 in Don C. Lavoie, ed. Economics and Hermeneutics (Routledge 1990). An earlier version, with discussion, appeared in Orace Johnson, ed. Methodology and Accounting Research: Does the Past Have a Future (Proceedings of the 8th Annual Big Ten Accounting Doctoral Consortium, May, 1987: 69-76). Reprinted as "Telling Stories Economically," The Ludwig von Mises Lecture Series: Economic Education: 22: 83-107.
  10. "Formalism in Economics, Rhetorically Speaking," Ricerche Economiche 43 (1989), 1-2 (Jan-June): 57-75. Reprinted with minor revisions in American Sociologist 21 (1, Spring, 1990): 3-19.
  11. [co-authored with Arjo Klamer] "The Rhetoric of Disagreement," Rethinking Marxism 2 (Fall 1989): 140-161. Reprinted in D. H. Prychitko, ed. Why Economists Disagree, Albany: SUNY Press, 1998.
  12. [co-authored with Arjo Klamer] "Accounting as the Master Metaphor of Economics," European Accounting Review 1 (1, May, 1992): 145-160.
  13. "Agon and Ag Ec: Styles of Persuasion in Agricultural Economics," American Journal of Agricultural Economics 72 (Dec 1990): 1124-1130.
  14. "The Rhetoric of Economic Expertise." Pp. 137-147 in Richard H. Roberts and J. M. M. Good, eds., The Recovery of Rhetoric: Persuasive Discourse and Disciplinarity in the Human Sciences. 1993. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1993. In French as "La rhétorique de l'expertise économique" in Vincent de Coorebyter, ed., Rhétorique de la Science. Paris: Presse Universitaires de France, in the series "L'interrogation philosophique," M. Meyer, ed., pp 171-188.
  15. "Mere Style in Economics Journals, 1920 to the Present," Economic Notes 20 (1, 1991): 135-148.
  16. "Economic Science: A Search Through the Hyperspace of Assumptions?" Methodus 3 (1, June 1991): 6-16. Reprinted as pp. 73-84 in Craig Freedman and Rick Szostak, eds., Tales of Narcissus--The Looking Glass of Economic Science, New York: Nova Science, 2003.
  17. "How to Do a Rhetorical Analysis of Economics, and Why," in Roger Backhouse, ed., Economic Methodology. London: Routledge, 1994: 319-342. Reprinted John B. Davis, ed. Recent Developments in Economic Methodology (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006).
  18. "Economics and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge," in Robert Goodman and Walter Fisher, eds., Rethinking Knowledge: Reflections Across the Disciplines. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995).
  19. [co-authored with Arjo Klamer] "One Quarter of GDP is Persuasion," The American Economic Review 85, (2, May 1995): 191-195.
  20. "How Economists Persuade," Journal of Economic Methodology 1 (1, June 1994): 15-32.
  21. "Metaphors Economists Live By," Social Research 62 (2, Summer 1995): 215-237.
  22. "The Genealogy of Postmodernism: An Economist's Guide." Steven Cullenberg, ed. Postmodernism and Economics, NY and London: Routledge, 2001.
  23. "You Shouldn't Want a Realism if You Have a Rhetoric." 2002. In Uskali Mäki, ed. Fact and Fiction in Economics: Models, Realism and Rhetoric. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  24. "The Demoralization of Economics: Can We Recover from Bentham and Return to Smith?" in Martha Fineman and Terence Dougherty, eds., Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus: Gender, Economics, and the Law. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.
  25. "The Trouble with Mathematics and Statistics in Economics," History of Economic Ideas XIII (3,2005): 85-102, delivered to MUIR-PRIN project "The role of mathematics in the history of economics," Venice, January 28, 2005, with replies by Dardi, Egidi, Marchionatti, and Fontana.

    Replies

  26. "Communications: Reply to Caldwell and Coats," Journal of Economic Literature 22 (June 1984): 579-80.
  27. "Sartorial Epistemology in Tatters: A Reply to Martin Hollis," Economics and Philosophy 1 (Apr 1985): 134-137.
  28. "Reply to Peter Mueser," American Sociologist 21 (1, Spring 1990): 26-28.

    Reviews

  29. Review of de Marchi and Blaug, eds., Appraising Economic Theories, Journal of Economic Literature 31 (1, Mar 1993): 229-231.
  30. Review of Samuels, ed. Economics as Discourse, Journal of Economic History 53 (1, Mar 1993): 204-206
  31. Review of Rosenberg, Economics: Mathematical Politics?, Isis 84 (4, Dec 1993): 838-39.
  32. "Fun in Econ 101," review of John Kenneth Galbraith, A Journey Through Economic Time: A Firsthand View," Chicago Tribune Book World, 25 Sep 1994, Sec. 14, p. 4.

    Short Pieces

  33. "A Conversation with McCloskey About Rhetoric" Eastern Economic Journal, (Oct-Dec 1985): 293-296.
  34. "The Rhetoric of Economics," Social Science 71 (2/3, Fall 1986): 97-102 (prepared by Frank Moore from a talk at the Institute in Social Science, University of North Carolina, Jan 1986).
  35. "Economics as a Historical Science." Pp. 63-69 in William Parker, ed. Economic History and the Modern Economist (NY: Basil Blackwell, 1986; Italian translation, 1988, Liters Editore).
  36. "Rhetoric," in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Thought and Doctrine (Macmillan, 1987).
  37. "The Rhetoric of Economic Development: Rethinking Development Economics," Cato Journal 7 (Spring/Summer 1987): 249-54; reprinted with minor revisions in James Dorn and A. A. Walters, eds. The Revolution in Development Economics, 1993.
  38. "The Arrogance of Economic Theorists" [German translation as "Die Arroganz der Wirtschaftstheorie: Okonomische Rechenkunste im Zwielicht"], Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 31 August/ 1 Sept 1991, p. 85, in the series Themen und Thesen der Wirtschaft, reprinted (in English) in Swiss Review of World Affairs 41 (no. 7, Oct 1991): 11-12.
  39. "Les Métaphores de la Science Economique." Le Monde, Apr 28, 1992, p. 39.
  40. "The Rhetoric of Finance," for The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance, 1992: 350-352.
  41. "Ask What the Boys in the Sandpit Will Have," (London) Times Higher Education Supplement, 1996.
  42. [Reprint of] "The Rhetoric of This Economics," Chp. 4, pp. 38-52 in McCloskey, Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics (1994), for Daniel Hausman, ed., The Philosopy of Economics, Readings, 3rd ed., forthcoming 2007.

(9.) Invited replies to reviews of The Rhetoric of Economics and to other works on the rhetoric of economics

See also Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics (1994).
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  1. "Splenetic Rationalism: Hoppe's Review of Chapter 1 of The Rhetoric of Economics." Market Process 7 (1) (Spring 1989): 34-41, reprinted in Peter J. Boettke and David L. Prychitdo, eds. The Market Process: Essays on Contemporary Austrian Economics (Edward Elgar, 1994) pp. 187-200.
  2. "Commentary [on Rossetti and Mirowski]," Pp. 261-271 in Neil de Macchi, ed. Post-Popperian Methodology of Economics. Recovering Practice. Boston: Kluwer, 1992.

    Replies

  3. "The Two Cultures and Methodology [A Reply to Mark Blaug]," Critical Review 1 (3, Summer 1987): 124-127.
  4. "Responses to My Critics: A Mild Response to William Butos; An Agreeable Reply to A. W. Coats; A Disagreeable Reply to Steven Pressman," Eastern Economic Journal 13 (July-Sept 1987): 308-311.
  5. "Two Replies and a Dialogue on the Rhetoric of Economics: Rosenberg, Rappaport, and Mäki," Economics and Philosophy 4 (1988): 150-166.
  6. "Rhetoric as Morally Radical: Reply to Klamer, Stewart, and Gleicher," Review of Radical Political Economy 19 (3): 87-91. Translated into Spanish, Estudios Economicos [El Colegio de Mexico].
  7. "Reply to Munz," Journal of the History of Ideas 51 (1, Jan/Mar 1990): 143-147.
  8. "Modern Epistemology Against Analytic Philosophy: A Reply to Mäki," Journal of Economic Literature 33 (Sept, 1995): 1319-1323.

    Reviews

  9. Review of Mirowski, Natural Images in Economic Thought: Markets Read in Tooth and Claw, Isis, 1996.

(10.) The Rhetoric of Inquiry


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  1. [co-authored with Allan Megill and John Nelson] "Rhetoric of Inquiry." Pp. 3-18 in Nelson, Megill, and McCloskey, eds. The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences (University of Wisconsin Press, 1987).
  2. "The Limits of Expertise: If You're So Smart, Why Ain't You Rich?" The American Scholar 57 (3) (Summer 1988): 393-406. Reprinted as pp. 92-111 in J. Lee Auspitz, W. W. Gasparski, M. K. Mlicki, and K. Szaniawski, eds. Praxiologies and the Philosophy of Economics. Spanish translation as "Si de verdad eras tan listo . . . (I)" in Revista de Occidente 83 (Apr 1988): 71-86. Reprinted in B. J. Caldwell, ed. The Philosophy and Methodology of Economics, Vol. II (Edward Elgar: 1993).
  3. "The Dismal Science and Mr. Burke: Economics as a Critical Theory," pp. 99-114 in H. W. Simons and T. Melia, eds. The Legacy of Kenneth Burke (Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989).
  4. "Why I Am No Longer a Positivist." Review of Social Economy 47 (3, Fall, 1989): 225-238. Reprinted as pp. 189-202 in Craig Freedman and Rick Szostak, eds., Tales of Narcissus--The Looking Glass of Economic Science, New York: Nova Science, 2003.
  5. "Platonic Insults: 'Rhetorical'." Common Knowledge 2 (2, Fall 1993): 23-32.
  6. "Keeping the Company of Sophisters, Economists, and Calculators," in Fred Antczak, ed., Keeping Company: Rhetoric, Pluralism and Wayne Booth. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1994).

    Reviews

  7. Review of Allan Bloom, Giants and Dwarfs: Essays, 1960-1990, Chicago Tribune Book World, Oct 1990.
  8. "The Unquashed Masses," review of John Carey, The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939, Reason, 26 (3, July 1994): 60-61.

    Short Pieces

  9. "Exchange of Letters on The Consequences of Pragmatism," Times Literary Supplement, August 26, 1983.
  10. "The Very Idea of Epistemology: A Comment on Hausman and McPherson's 'Standards'" Economics and Philosophy 5 (Spring 1989): 1-6.
  11. "An Economic Uncertainty Principle," Scientific American (Nov 1994): 107.
  12. "Computation Outstrips Analysis," Scientific American (July 1995): 26.
  13. "Big Rhetoric, Little Rhetoric: Gaonkar on the Rhetoric of Science," in Alan G. Gross and William M. Keith, ed., Rhetorical Hermeneutics, Invention and Interpretation in the Age of Science, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997): pp 101-112.

(11.) The Rhetoric of Significance Testing and Econometrics

See also in BOOKS: The Rhetoric of Economics, 2nd ed. 1988, chps. 8 & 9; The Vices of Economists; The Virtues of the Bourgeoisie 1996, chp. 2; How to Be Human* *Though an Economist 2000, pp. 187-208; certain pages of The Secret Sins of Economics 2002; and Ziliak and McCloskey, The Standard Error: How Some Sciences Lost an Interest in Magnitude, and What to Do About It, forthcoming, University of Michigan Press.
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  1. "The Art of Forecasting, Ancient to Modern Times," Cato Journal 12 (1, Spring/Summer 1992): 23-43.
  2. [Stephen Ziliak, co-author] "The Standard Error of Regressions," Journal of Economic Literature, 34 (March, 1996): 97-114.
  3. [Stephen Ziliak, co-author] "Size Matters: The Standard Error of Regressions in the American Economic Review during the 1990s," Journal of Socio-Economics 33: 527-546. It was the subject of a symposium, pp. 547-664, with comments by Arnold Zellner, Clive Granger, Edward Leamer, Joel Horowitz, Erik Thorbecke, Gerd Gigerenzer, Bruce Thompson, Morris Altman, and others (from a presentation at the American Economic Association annual convention, January 2004, Kenneth Arrow presiding). Also printed in Econ Journal Watch 1, n.2: 331-358 (August 2004).

    Short Pieces

  4. "The Loss Function Has Been Mislaid: The Rhetoric of Significance Tests," American Economic Review, Supplement 75 (2, May 1985): 201-205.
  5. "Why Economic Historians Should Stop Relying on Statistical Tests of Significance, and Lead Economists and Historians into the Promised Land," Newsletter of the Cliometric Society 2 (2, Nov 1986): 5-7.
  6. "Rhetoric Within the Citadel: Statistics," pp. 485-490 in J.W. Wenzel at al., eds., Argument and Critical Practice: Proceedings of the Fifth SCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation (Annandale, Va.: Speech Communication Association, 1987); reprinted in C. A. Willard and G. T. Goodnight, eds., Public Argument and Scientific Understanding (1993).
  7. "The Bankruptcy of Statistical Significance," Eastern Economic Journal 18 (Summer 1992): 359-361 (also in Other Brief Academic Items, [156] (2) below).
  8. "The Insignificance of Statistical Significance," Scientific American (Apr 1995): 32-33.
  9. "Aunt Deirdre's Letter to a Graduate Student" Eastern Economic Journal 23 (2, Spring 1997): 241-244.
  10. "Cassandra's Open Letter to Her Economist Colleagues" Eastern Economic Journal 25 (3, Summer 1999):
  11. "Two Vices: Proof and Significance," unpublished paper presented at a large AEA session in Chicago, Jan 3, 1998.}
  12. "Beyond Merely Statistical Significance." Statement of editorial policy, Feminist Economics, 2000.
  13. [Stephen Ziliak, co-author] "Significance Redux," pp. 665-675 of the symposium issue.
  14. [Stephen Ziliak, co-author], "A Final Word," in the symposium issue.

    Unpublished

  15. [Stephen Ziliak, co-author] "Signifying Something: A Reply to Hoover and Siegler," drafted, to be released if their article appears in print.

(12.) Teaching Composition in Economics


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  1. "Rules of This House," a document for Academic Writing workshop, December 2007 (article forthcoming in JEM)
  2. "Economical Writing," Economic Inquiry 24(2) (Apr 1985): 187-222 [reprinted in UCLA Writing Program {Ellen Strenski, ed.}, Cross-Disciplinary Conversations about Writing (NY: St. Martin's Press, 1989)]; reprinted with revisions as The Writing of Economics (in second ed., Economical Writing, 1999).

    Replies

  3. "Reply to Jack High", Economic Inquiry, late 1980s
  4. "Writing as a Responsibility of Science: A Reply to Laband and Taylor," Economic Inquiry 30 (Oct 1992): 689-695.

(13.) The Rhetoric of Law


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  1. "The Rhetoric of Law and Economics," Michigan Law Review 86 (4, Feb 1988): 752-767.
  2. [co-authored with John Nelson] "The Rhetoric of Political Economy," pp. 155-174 (Chapter 8) in James H. Nichols, Jr. and Colin Wright, eds. Political Economy to Economics &8212; And Back? (San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies Press, 1990).
  3. "The Essential Rhetoric of Law, Literature, and Liberty," review of Posner's Law as Literature, Fish's Doing What Comes Naturally and White's Justice as Translation, Critical Review 5 (1, Spring 1991): 203-223.
  4. "The Lawyerly Rhetoric of Coase's The Nature of the Firm," Journal of Corporation Law 18 (2, Winter 1993): 424-439.
  5. "The Rhetoric of Liberty," Rhetoric Society Quarterly 26 (1, 1996): pp. 9-27.

    Replies

  6. "Minimal Statism and Metamodernism: A Reply to Jeffrey Friedman," Critical Review 6 (1, Dec 1992): 107-112.

    Reviews

  7. Review of Gaskins, Law and Rhetoric, Social Services Review 70 (3, Sept 1996): 482-489.

    Short Pieces

  8. "The Rhetoric, Economics, and Economic History of Michelman's 'Republican Tradition: A Commentary'," Iowa Law Review 72 (5, July 1987): 1351-1353.
  9. "The Good Old Coase Theorem and the Good Old Chicago School: Comment on the Medema-Zerbe Paper," Coasean Economics: The New Institutional Economics and Law and Economics, (Steven G. Medema, Ed.) Boston: Kluwer Publishing, 1997, pp. 239-248.
  10. "Law, Gender, and the University," Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 2 (1, Fall, 1998): 77-85. Also in (19.) Gender.

(14.) Teaching Economics


^top^See also economics textbooks, The Applied Theory of Price 1983, 1985 and [co-authored with Klamer and Ziliak] The Economic Conversation, forthcoming 2008; and "The Economics of Choice" in Rawski, ed., 1995
  1. [with John Siegfried, Robin Bartlett, W. Lee Hansen, Allen Kelley, and Thomas Tietenberg] "The Status and Prospects of the Economics Major," Journal of Economic Education 22 (3, Summer 1991): 197-224.
  2. [with John Siegfried, W. Lee Hansen, Robin Bartlett, Allen Kelley, and Thomas Tietenberg] "The Economics Major: Can and Should We Do Better than a B-?" American Economic Review 81 (2, May 1991): 20-25.

    Replies

  3. "A Solution to the Alleged Inconsistency in the Neoclassical Theory of Markets: Reply to Guerrien's Reply." 2006. Post-Autistic Economics Review Sept.

    Short Pieces

  4. "9th Edition of Samuelson's Economics," Challenge 16 (Sept/Oct 1973): 65-66.
  5. "Why Economics is Tough for Ten-Year-Olds," Social Studies Review (American Textbook Council) 10 (Fall 1991): 8-11.
  6. "The Natural," Eastern Economic Review 18 (2, Spring 1992): 237-239. Also in Eastern columns below.
  7. "Contribution to Special Book Section on books to recommend to undergraduate economics Students," Reason 26 (7, Dec, 1994): 42.
  8. "Yes, There is Something Worth Keeping in Microeconomics." 2002. Post-Autistic Economics Review no. 16 4 Sept. Reprinted in a German translation, "Ja, es gibt etwas Behaltenswertes an der Mikroökonomik," in T. Dürmeier, T. v. Egan-Krieger, H. Peukert, eds., Die Scheuklappen der Wirtschaftswissenschaft: Postautistische Ökonomik für eine pluralistische Wirtschaftslehre (October 2006)

(15.) Academic Policy


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  1. "The Theatre of Scholarship and the Rhetoric of Economics," Southern Humanities Review 22 (Summer, 1988): 241-249.
  2. "The Public Research University in the Next Century: The Role of the Department of Communication," Planning, 1996.

    Short Pieces

  3. "The Poverty of Letters: The Crushing Case Against Outside Letters for Promotion," Change, 20 (5, Sept 1988), pp. 7-9.
  4. "The Invisible Colleges and Economics: An Unacknowledged Crisis in Academic Life," Change 23 (6, Nov/Dec 1991): 10-11, 54.
  5. "A Small College Aura for Large Institutions," Chronicle of Higher Education 38 (5, Sept 25, 1991): p. B3.
  6. "The Insanity of Letters of Recommendation," Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan 2002.

    Reviews

  7. Review of Bowen & Rudenstine, In Pursuit of the Ph.D.: A Review Article, Change 26 (1, Jan/Feb 1994) and Economics of Education Review 4 (1993): pp. 359-365.

(16.) Intellectual Biography


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  1. "Robert William Fogel: An Appreciation by an Adopted Student,," pp. 14-25 in Claudia Goldin and Hugh Rockoff, eds, Strategic Factors in Nineteenth-Century American Economic History: A Volume to Honor Robert W. Fogel. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
  2. "Alexander Gerschenkron: By a Student," The American Scholar 61 (2, Spring, 1992): 241-246.
  3. "Fogel and North: Statics and Dynamics in Historical Economics," Scandinavian Journal of Economics (2, 1994): .

    Reviews

  4. Review of Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed, 1883-1920, Washington Post Book World, May 25, 1986.
  5. Review of James Buchanan, Better Than Plowing, Constitutional Political Economy, 1993.
  6. "The Persuasive Life," review of Hayek on Hayek, edited by Stephen Kresge and Leif Wener, Reason, 26 (4, August/Sept, 1994): 67-70.
  7. "Persuade and Be Free," review of Ebenstein, Friedrich Hayek, Reason, October 2001.

    Short Pieces

  8. "Earl Hamilton," in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Thought and Doctrine (Macmillan, 1987).
  9. "Charles P. Kindleberger," in The New Palgrave, 1987.
  10. "Chicago School of Economics," Encyclopedia of Chicago History, Spring 1999.

(17.) Sociology of Science

See also Rhetoric of Economics above.
^top^

    Reviews

  1. Review of Michael Mulkay, The Word and the World: Explorations in the Form of Sociological Analysis, American Journal of Sociology 93: 467-69, Sep 1987.
  2. "A Strong Programme in the Rhetoric of Science," review of H. M. Collins, Changing Order: Replication and Induction in Scientific Research, Journal of Economic Psychology: 128-133, 1986.
  3. Review of M. C. LaFollete, Stealing into Print, Journal of Economic Literature 32: 1226-29, Sep, 1994.
  4. "The Postmodern Rhetoric of Sociology," review of D. W. Fiske and R. A. Shweder, Metatheory in Social Science, Contemporary Sociology 15, 6 Nov 1986.

(18.) Ethics, Bourgeois Virtues, and Economics


^top^
    See also Webpage on the Bourgeois Virtues series.
    See also The Bourgeois Virtues, 2006, and the other books in the series forthcoming, listed at end.
  1. "Bourgeois Virtue," American Scholar 63 (2, Spring 1994): 177-191. Reprinted in Occasional Papers of the Centre for Independent Studies, New South Wales (short version reprinted in the Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter, Fall 1994). Reprinted in Eugene Heath, ed., Morality and the Market (McGraw-Hill, 2001)
  2. "Missing Ethics in Economics," pp. 187-201 in Arjo Klamer, ed. The Value of Culture: On the Relationships Between Economics and Arts. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1996.
  3. "Bourgeois Virtue and the History of P and S," Presidential Address, presented at the Economic History Association, New Brunswick, NJ, Sept 1997, published in The Journal of Economic History, 58 (2, June 1998).
  4. "The Bourgeois Virtues." World Economics 5, (July-September 2004): 1-16.
  5. "The Hobbes Problem: From Hobbes to Buchanan," First Annual Buchanan Lecture, George Mason University, April 7, 2006.

    Reviews

  6. "On Moral Grounds, review of Wayne Booth, The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction, Chicago Tribune Book World, Dec 25, 1988, Sec. 14, p. 5.
  7. Review of Cameron, The Economics of Sin: Rational Choice or No Choice at All? Times Higher Education Supplement, January 2004.

    Short Pieces

  8. "Hobbes, Nussbaum, and All Seven of the Virtues," 1400-word comment at conference at the Institute of Social Studies, Den Haag, March 10, 2006 on "Nussbaum and Cosmopolitanism," forthcoming in a special issue of Development and Change, 37 (6), 2006, Des Gasper, ed.}
  9. "Bourgeois Blues," Reason 25 (1, May 1993): 47-51. Reprinted in Parth J. Shah, ed. Morality of Markets. Academic Foundation/ Centre For Civil Society (India). Reprinted in Ted Lardner and Todd Lundberg, eds., Exchanges: Reading and Writing About Consumer Culture (Longman, 2001).
  10. "Bourgeois Virtue," 1000 words, pp. 44-46 in Patricia Werhane and E. R. Freeman, eds. Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics, Blackwell: Malden, MA and London, 1997.; reprinted in second edition.
  11. "Procedural Justice," 500 words, pp. 509-510, for Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics 1998; new edition 2004.
  12. "Breakthrough Books: The Market," Lingua Franca, July/August 1995.
  13. "The Bourgeois Virtues," History Today ( 56, Sept): 20-27.
  14. "Bourgeois Virtues?" a 3100-word essay selected from The Bourgeois Virtues, quite different in emphasis from the previous item, Cato Policy Report, June, 2006.

    Drafts

  15. "Eighteenth-Century Virtues: Smith and Franklin." Presented to conferences in Australia, and New Zealand in summer 1996; a version appears as two chapters in my Bourgeois Towns: How Capitalism Became Virtuous, 1600-1800, in preparation.
  16. "The Prehistory of American Thrift", 10,000-word manuscript forthcoming in Josh Yates, ed., Thrift and American Culture, under review by Princeton University Press]
  17. "Ethics and Thrift, Historically Criticized," 30-page MS in the Hedgehog Review, forthcoming early 2007?]
  18. "Hobbes, Rawls, Buchanan, Nussbaum, and All the Virtues, 11,500-word essay, not submitted yet
  19. "Not by P Alone: A Virtuous Economy", 30 page manuscript forthcoming in Irene van Staveren, ed, special issue on ethics in economics for the Review of Political Economy.
  20. "The Last of the Former Virtue Ethicists", 11,000-word essay in Jeffrey Young, ed., The Elgar Companion to Adam Smith, forthcoming c. 2007]; presented to History of Economics Society, annual meetings of the ASSA in Chicago, January, 2007.

(19.) Religious Economics


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  1. "Voodoo Economics." Poetics Today 12 (2, Summer 1991): 287-300.
  2. "Avarice, Prudence, and the Bourgeois Virtues." Pp. 312-336 in William Shweiker and Charles Matthewes, eds. Having: Property and Possession in Religious and Social Life. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2004
  3. "Humility and Truth." Anglican Theological Review 88 (2, May 2006): 181-96.

    Short Pieces

  4. "Forward" to Robert H. Nelson, Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics. Savage, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1991, pp. xi-xvii.
  5. "Christian Economics?" Eastern Economic Journal 25 (4, Fall 1999): 477-480.
  6. "What Would Jesus Spend? Why Being a Good Christian Won't Hurt the Economy." In Character 1 (2004). Linked at Wall Street Journal, OpinionJournal, November 2004. Reprinted in The Christian Century, May 4, 2004, pp. 24-30.

    Unpublished

  7. "God and Mammon," unpublished lecture.
  8. "Importing Religion Into Economics," forthcoming in Faith and Economics.

(20.) Feminist Economics


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  1. "Some Consequences of a Conjective Economics." Pp. 69-93 in Julie Nelson and Marianne Ferber, eds., Beyond Economic Man: Feminism and Economics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. The book was translated into Spanish, Más Allá del Hombre Económico: Economía y Teoría Feminista in Ediciones Cátedra in its "Feminismos" series in 2004.
  2. "Post-Modern Free-Market Feminism: A Conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak," Rethinking Marxism, Winter 2000 (12 [4]).
  3. "Women's Work in the Market, 1900-2000," in Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, ed., Women in Twentieth-Century Britain: Economic, Social, and Cultural Change. London: Longmans, 2001 [also in Section 6 above].

    Reviews

  4. "Cupid is no Stranger to Mammon" (review of Viviana Zelizer, The Purchase of Intimacy), Times Higher Education Supplement Oct 14, 2005: 24-25.
  5. "Femmes Fiscales" (book review of women and economics) Times Higher Education Supplement, May 31, 1996.
  6. Unpublished review for The Nation (on the eve of 9/11) of Ann Crittenden, The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still the Least Valued. New York: Henry Holt and Company. Metropolitan Books, 2001. and Nancy Folbre, The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values. New York: The New Press, 2001.

    Short Pieces

  7. "Comment on Jonung and Stahlberg's 'On Gender Balance in the Economics Profession'." [Gender Symposium], in EconJournalWatch, spring 2008
  8. "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, comment on Sandra Harding's 'Can Feminist Thought Make Economics More Objective?'," Feminist Economics 1 (3, Fall 1995): 119-124. (Also in part (8.) above).
  9. "Love and Money: A Comment on the Markets Debate," Feminist Economics 2 (2, Summer 1996): 137-140.
  10. "Simulating Barbara," Feminist Economics 4 (3, Fall, 1998): 181-186. (Also in part (8.) above).

    Unpublished

  11. "May Days: Part of a Polylogue on Feminist Economics," A conversation on the FEMECON-L net, June 1994.
  12. "'What Did You Say?' A Postmodern Feminism of Economics."

(21.) Gender Crossing

See also Crossing: A Memoir, 1999.
^top^
  1. "Happy Endings: Law, Gender, and the University," Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 2 (1, Fall, 1998): 77-85 (also in [13.] The Rhetoric of Law.)

    Short Pieces

  2. "Some News That At Least Will Not Bore You," Eastern Economic Journal 21 (4, Fall 1995): 551-553; reprinted in Lingua Franca, early spring 1996; shortened version in Harper's, July 1996.
  3. "It's Good to be a Don if You're Going to be a Deirdre," Times Higher Education Supplement, August 23, 1996, 1 page.
  4. "Transformation," Iowa Alumni Quarterly, Summer 1997, p. 49.
  5. "Becoming Stories." Pp. 112-117 in Linda Roodenburg, eds., Photowork(s) in Progress/Constructing Identity. Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1997. (Dutch section, pp. 118-123).
  6. Excerpts from Crossing: A Memoir (1999): Reason magazine, Dec 1999; Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, Jan 30, 2000.
  7. "Slate Diary, Nov 29, 1999-Dec 3, 1999" [invited week of five diary entries, focusing on gender], slate.com., and archived, reprinted in J. Kantor, C. Krohn, and J. Shulevitz, eds., The Slate Diaries. NY: PublicAffairs, 2000.
  8. "Crossing Economics." The International Journal of Transgenderism [a peer-reviewed electronic journal], 4 (3), July-Sept 2000.
  9. "Letters on 'The Man Who Would Be Queen'," Chicago Reader Jan 2004.

    Reviews

  10. Review of Bailey, The Man Who Would Be Queen, Reason November 2003 (reprinted in Independent Gay Forum, November 2003).

    Unpublished

  11. "Queer Markets," comment in Kevin G. Barnhurst, ed. Media/Queered: Visibility and its Discontents, forthcoming.
  12. "Caring for Gender: Sister, Psychiatrists, and Gender Crossing," (Cleis Press? I'm not sure if this piece actually came out.)

(22.) Other Brief Academic Items


^top^
  1. "Review of Stratton and Brown's Agricultural Records in Britain," Journal of Economic History, c. 1978: 189.
  2. "Fungibility," in The New Palgrave, 1987; reprinted New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance (Macmillan U.K.; Stockton), 1992.
  3. "Gresham's Law," for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance, 1992.
  4. "Reading the Economy." Humane Studies Review, 70 (2, Spring 1992): pp. 1, 10-13.
  5. "Duty and Creativity in Economic Scholarship," in Michael Szenberg, ed., Passion and Craft: Economists at Work, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. Version reprinted in Sarah Philipson, ed. A Passion for Research, in progress 2006.
  6. "Other Things Equal" (columns in the Eastern Economic Journal 1992-2003. Many of these through 1999 are included in How to be Human* *Though an Economist):
    1. "The Natural" 18 (2, Spring 1992): 237-239.
    2. "The Bankruptcy of Statistical Significance" 18 (3, Summer 1992): 359-361.
    3. "Schelling's Five Truths of Economics" 19 (1, Winter 1993): 109-112.
    4. "The A-Prime, C-Prime Theorem" 19 (2, Fall 1993): 235-238.
    5. "Reading I've Liked" 19 (3, Summer 1994): 395-399.
    6. "Economics: Art or Science or Who Cares?" 20 (1, Winter 1994): 117-120.
    7. "How to Organize a Conference," 20 (2, Spring 1994): 221-224.
    8. "Why Don't Economists Believe Empirical Findings?" 20 (3, Summer 1994): 357-350
    9. "To Burn Always with a Hard, Gemlike Flame, Eh Professor?" 20 (4, Fall 1994): 479-481
    10. "He's Smart, and He's a Nice Guy Too," 21 (1, Winter 1995): 109-112.
    11. "How to Host a Seminar Visitor," 21 (2, Spring 1995): 271-274.
    12. "Kelly Green Golf Shoes and the Intellectual Range from M to N," 21 (3, Summer 1995): 411-414.
    13. "Some News That At Least Will Not Bore You," 21 (4, Fall 1995): 551-553.
    14. "Love or Money" 22 (1, Winter 1996): 97-100.
    15. "Keynes Was a Sophist, and a Good Thing, Too" 22 (2, Spring 1996)
    16. "Economic Tourism" 22 (3, Summer 1996)
    17. "One Small Step for Gary" 23 (1, Winter 1997): 113-116.
    18. "Aunt Deirdre's Letter to a Graduate Student" 23 (2, Spring 1997): 241-244.
    19. "The Rhetoric of Economics Revisited" 23 (3, Summer 1997): 359-362.
    20. "Polanyi Was Right, and Wrong" 23 (4, Fall 1997): 483-487.
    21. "Quarreling with Ken" 24 (1, Winter 1998): 111-115.
    22. "Small Worlds, or, the Preposterousness of Closed Economy Macro" 24 (2, Spring 1998): 229-232.
    23. "The So-Called Coase Theorem" 24 (3, Summer 1998): 367-371.
    24. "Career Courage" 24 (4, Fall 1998): 525-528.
    25. "Learning to Love Globalization" 25 (1, Winter 1999): 117-121.
    26. "Economical Writing: An Executive Summary" 25 (2, Spring 1999):
    27. "Cassandra's Open Letter to Her Economist Colleagues" EER 25 (3, Summer 1999): .
    28. "Christian Economics?" EER 25 (4, Fall 1999):
    29. "Alan Greenspan Doesn't Influence on Interest Rates," EER 26 (1, Winter 2000): 99-102
    30. "How to Be Scientific in Economics," EER 26 (2, Spring, 2000): 241-46.
    31. "Free Market Feminism 101," EER 26 (3, Summer): 363-65.
    32. "How to Be a Good Graduate Student," EER 26 (4, Fall 2000): 487-90.
    33. "Three Books of Oomph," EER 27 (1, Winter 2001): "Books of Oomph," reprinted Post-Autistic Economics Newsletter, 8 May 2001
    34. "Mottoes for Science: Intendete Alte in Gubernando; and Qui scis?" EER 27 (2 Spring 2001): 239:243.
    35. "Bush" EER 27 (3 Summer 2001): 367-371.
    36. "Getting It Right, and Left: Marxism and Competition." 2001 EER 27 (4): 515-520.
    37. "The Insanity of Letters of Recommendation" 2002 EER 28 (1): 137-140. [also in The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 2002.]
    38. "What's Wrong with the Earth Charter." 2002 EER 28 (2): 269-272.
    39. "Samuelsonian Economics," 2002 EER 28 (3): 425-30.
    40. "Why Economists Should Not be Ashamed of Being Philosophers of Prudence." 2003 EER 28 (4): 551-556.
    41. "Milton," 2003 EER 29 (1): 143-146.
    42. "Notre Dame Loses," 2003 EER 29 (2): 309-315.
    43. "The Earth Charter: A Reply," 2003 EER 29 (2): 473-474.

(23.) Other Journalism (short pieces)


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  1. "Review of Herbert Stein's Washington Bedtime Stories: The Politics of Money and Jobs," Washington Post Book World, Nov 30, 1986. Reprinted in Washington Post Weekly, Manchester Guardian Weekly.
  2. "Poland is Delicate Mix of Freedom, Fear," Des Moines Register, Oct 10, 1988.
  3. "The Circus of Politics." Liberty Tree 6 (1, May 1992), pp. 1, 3-5.
  4. "Three Books the New President Should Read." Reason, Dec. 1992.
  5. "Overgeinzingen Deirdre McCloskey bij afschied" Quod Novum, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Nummer 19, Jaargang 30-22 Januari 1997, English text, one page.
  6. Week-long diary for Slate, December 1999, mentioned above in Gender Crossing
  7. 30-minute Interview on Eight Forty-Eight on Chicago Public Radio and affiliates, interviewed by Steve Edwards, producer, Gianofer Fields, received the 1999 Public Radio News Directors Inc (PRNDI) First Place Award in the Interview category.

(24.) Miscellaneous Essays Drafted or Planned


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  1. "Returning the Favor: What Economists Can Learn from the Law," unpublished essay.
  2. "Seeing is Believing: The Philosophical Significance of the Infinitive and Participle of Indirect Speech In Plato." (partially drafted)