Books
written, edited
or co-authored
by Deirdre McCloskey

Books Written: Economic History
Measurement and Meaning in Economics:
The Essential Deirdre McCloskey
Edited by Stephen Ziliak, with an introduction by him and a short Preface by McCloskey
- Brighton: Elgar. Economists of the Twentieth Century Series. 2001.
- Selection of historical economics and the rhetoric of economics by Deirdre McCloskey. 		About &
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Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain:
Essays in Historical Economics
By Deirdre McCloskey
- Allen and Unwin, 1981.
- Reprinted 1993 by Gregg Revivals (Godstone, Surrey, England).
- Reprinted again 2003 by Routledge (Oxford). 		About Reviews Related Order info
British Historical Society Econometric History
By Deirdre McCloskey
- Macmillan U.K., 1987.
- For the British Economic History Society.
- Trans. into Japanese 1992.
- Image: Courtesy British Historical Society. 		About Reviews Related Order info
Economic Maturity and Entrepreneurial Decline:
British Iron and Steel, 1870-1913
By Deirdre McCloskey
- Harvard Economic Studies.
- Harvard University Press, 1973.
- David A. Wells Prize. 		About Review Contents Order info
Books Written: Criticism in Economics and History
The Secret Sins of Economics
By Deirdre McCloskey
- Prickly Paradigm Pamphlets (Marshall Sahlins, ed.).
- University of Chicago Press, 2002, 60 pp.
- Translated into Persian, 2006. 		Download Reviews Related Order info
[See also Measurement and Meaning in Economics: The Essential Deirdre McCloskey, 2001, as above.]
How to Be Human*
     *Though an Economist
By Deirdre McCloskey
- Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 		About Reviews Related Order info
The Vices of Economists;
The Virtues of the Bourgeoisie
By Deirdre McCloskey
- University of Amsterdam Press and University of Michigan Press, 1997.
- Dutch translation, 1997, Harry van Dalen.
- Japanese translation, with new preface for Japanese readers by McCloskey, Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, Ltd., 2002. 		About Reviews Related Order info
Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics
- By D. N. McCloskey
- Cambridge University Press 1994. 446 pp. 		Chp. 10: "The rhetoric of mathematical formalism" Order info
If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise
By D. N. McCloskey
- University of Chicago Press, 1990.
- Spanish translation Si eres tan listo: La narrativa de los expertos en economia (Madrid: Alianza 1993); trans. Graciela Sylvestre and Victoriano Martin.
- Chinese Translation 2004 (?), Chien Hua Publishing.
- Chapter 11 reprinted in Daniel Klein, ed., What Do Economists Contribute?, Macmillan Press 1998 and New York University Press 1999). 		About Reviews Related Order info
The Rhetoric of Economics
By D. N. McCloskey
- Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.
- British edition: Wheatsheaf 1986.
- Italian translation: La Retorica dell' Economia: Scienza e letturatura nel discorso economico, with an introduction by Augusto Graziani (Torino: Giulio Einaudi, 1988; trans. Bianca Maria Testa; series Nuovo Politecnico no. 165).
- Spanish (Alianza, 1990); Japanese (Harvest Sha 1992); Hungarian translation, Europa Publishing, said to be forthcoming (doubtful); Chinese translation ditto.
- Second Revised Edition, 1998. 		About Reviews Related Order info
The Writing of Economics
By Deirdre McCloskey
- NY: Macmillan, 1986.
- A 90-page libellus from the article "Economical Writing".
- Second Revised Edition as Economical Writing.
- Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press, 1999. 		About Reviews Related Order info
Books Written: Other Subjects
The Economic Conversation: A First Text.
- By Arjo Klamer (left), Deirdre McCloskey, and Stephen Ziliak
- Palgrave-Macmillan, in press for review, revision, and copyediting, December 2006.
- Forthcoming 2007 or early 2008.
- The book takes a open-handed approach to teaching economics, and stresses that economics is in fact a conversation, in which the students can take part from the beginning. Yet it has all the rigor that a first-year student can absorb.

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The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
By Stephen Ziliak (left) and Deirdre McCloskey
- In press for copyediting.
- Forthcoming 2007, University of Michigan Press.
- Ziliak and McCloskey show that statistical signficance, though routine in economics, psychology, medicine, and increasingly in the courts, is nonsense when used alone (as it almost invariably is), and has been known to be nonsense in this partial use since it was invented — often by the very inventors, such as Edgeworth and Gosset (the "Student" of Student's-t). 		Analytic Table of Contents and Preface About Related
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce
By Deirdre McCloskey
- University of Chicago Press, July 2006, as a trade book, 616 + xviii pp.
- Reviewed Wall Street Journal, July 22, 2006; NYTimes Sunday Book Review, July 30; Time Literary Supplement, November; New York Review of Books, Dec. 21).
- Trans. license for Korean (Da Vinci via Besun Korea Agency), June 2006.
- The volumes 2, 3, and 4 still a-writing, and a précis version on the subject, are also under contract to the Press. 		About Reviews Related Order (Amazon)
Crossing: A Memoir
By Deirdre McCloskey
- University of Chicago Press, 1999.
- Named December 1999 among the New York Times "Notable Books of 1999."
- Finalist, Lambda Literary Awards, 1999.
- Excerpts reprinted in Reason magazine (December 1999) and in Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine (Jan 30, 2000).
- Excerpt ("Yes, Ma'am") reprinted in Bloom, ed., Arlington Reader, 2nd ed., 2006.
- Excerpts published in J. Ames. ed., Sexual Metamorphosis (New York: Vintage 2005); and in Kessler, ed., Voices of Wisdom, 6th ed. (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson, 2006).
- Japanese translation, Bungie Shunju Ltd. 2001. 		Excerpt, U Chicago Press Excerpt, Reason Reviews Order info
The Applied Theory of Price
By Deirdre McCloskey
- Macmillan, 1982.
- Second revised edition, 1985.
- International student edition 1985; Spanish trans. Teoria de Precios Aplicada (Mexico: CECSA: Compania Editorial Continental, S. A.), 1990.
- Czech trans. Aplikovaná Teorie Ceny (Praha: Státni pedagogické, 1993). 		Full Text Reviews Related Order info
Books Edited: Economic History
Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain after 1840
- Methuen, 1971; and Princeton University Press, 1971.
- Reprinted Routledge, 2006. 		Order info
The Economic History of Britain, 1700-Present
Edited with Roderick Floud
- Second revised edition (3 vols.).
- Cambridge University Press, 1994. 		Order info Reviews Related
Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of U.S. Economic History
- Oxford University Press, 1992. 		Order info
A Bibliography of Historical Economics to 1980
Edited with George Hersh, Jr.
- Cambridge University Press, 1990.		 Order info
The Economic History of Britain, 1700-Present.
Edited with Roderick Floud, 2 vols.
- Cambridge University Press, 1981. 		Order info
Books Edited: Rhetoric of Inquiry
The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric
Edited with Arjo Klamer and Robert Solow
- Cambridge University Press, 1988. 		Order info
The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences:
Language and Argument in Scholarship and Public Affairs.
Edited with John Nelson and Allan Megill
- University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
- Translated into Korean by Korean University Press, 2003. 		Order info
Books Partially Drafted and Outlined
Bourgeois Deeds: How Values Made Innovation and the Modern World
- volume 2 of The Bourgeois Virtues
- Status: drafted.
- Under contract to the University of Chicago Press.		 Draft About Related
Bourgeois Towns: How Capitalism Became Virtuous, 1600-1800
- From volume 2 of The Bourgeois Virtues
- Status: partially drafted.
- Under contract to the University of Chicago Press.		 Draft About Related
The Treason of the Clerisy: How Capitalism was Demoralized in the Age of Romance
Co-authored with John S. McCloskey
- Vol. 3 of 4 of "The Bourgeois Virtues"
- Status: a few chapters drafted; 2009?
- Under contract to the University of Chicago Press.
Books Merely Projected
God and the Ordinary Business of Life: Sermons on a Christian Economics
With Ross B. Emmett
Economie: A Literary Economics
- A brief book, some 150 pages, about the economy in literature and economics in the discourse of literary leftism. It will introduce literary people to a conversation in scientific economics that they stopped attending to in the middle of the 19th century. Topics: "economy" as metaphor in literary studies; the economy as a subject for literary works (e.g. "Hard Times"; Frost on farming; naturalism, as in Zola and Dreiser); left, right, and middle views on how capitalism functions; what happened in economic history (e.g. trade unions are not responsible for the American standard of living); globalization, postcolonialism, and free-market feminism.
The Ordinary Business of Life: What Happened in Economic History
Co-authored with Santhi Hejeebu
- A primer on the useful past, economically viewed. We describe two score episodes of human life from conception to death in their historical context: child's play on the actual history of child labor; university education and the growth of human capital; job mobility in the 13th and 21st centuries; aging now and then; and the like.
- 200 pp. in print.
Reading the Economy:
An Anthology of Literary Works in English from Chaucer to Maya Angelou
Co-edited with Mary Beth Combs and Stephen Ziliak
- Status: sketched.
- Designed for the bed-table of the bourgeois(e) bleared with trade, and for the growing number of courses in English and Economics nationwide, the anthology selects poetry, short stories, plays, literary essays, and chapters of novels re-presenting the economy: Frost's "Two Tramps at Mudtime," for example, or Gaskell on British industrialization, or Miller's "Death of a Salesman." It teaches economic ways of thinking to literary people and opens the literary world to economists and calculators.
- 800 pages.
Defending the Defensible: The Case for an Ethical Capitalism
- Vol. 4 of 4 of the four-volume version of "The Bourgeois Virtues."
- Under contract to the University of Chicago Press.
The Good Bourgeois
- A single-volume and intended-to-be popular version of the four other books on the bourgeois virtues.
- Under contract to the University of Chicago Press
The Prudent and Faithful Peasant: An Essay on Pre-Modern History
- Using the essays in section 4 above on medieval open fields as a core, showing the workings of prudence modified by other virtues in olden times. It challenges the claim by Marx and Weber that rationality is peculiarly modern and the claim by materialists that religious motives have no grip on the economy.
- 350 pages in MS.
Matters: Economy as Speech
- Bringing linguistics and economics together to show how language matters in the economy.
The Success of British Capitalism
- Gathering and extending my work early and late against the persistent but strange assertion that Britain has failed.
- 350 pages in MS.