Chapter 4 of The Bourgeois Revaluation:
There Were Precursors of a Self-Respecting Bourgeoisie

January 29th, 2010

Dear Reader: This is a rough draft (Jan. 2010) of The Bourgeois Revaluation: How Innovation Became Virtuous, 1600-1848. Three asterisks *** or the bold or NNN (for a name) or DDDD (for a date) and the many pages with “items [perhaps] to be inserted” indicate only some of the numerous things to be [...]

“…as I’ve come under the influence of Deirdre McCloskey in the last seven or eight years I’ve come to realize that there are a lot of unrealized gains from trade to be enjoyed through multi-disciplinary conversation.”

January 29th, 2010

Excerpted from Art Carden in “A New Addition to the Bookshelf” in Division of Labor, 25 January 2010 (original link).

My copy of Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture just arrived … . I’m really looking forward to it; as I’ve come under the influence of Deirdre McCloskey in the last seven [...]

“Deirdre McCloskey’s Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics is probably the most important academic book I ever read.”

January 27th, 2010

So says a Finn on his blog at http://finglish.livejournal.com, 26 January 2010.
The quote was excerpted from:

Luckily there was also time [while a student] to read more interesting stuff. Deirdre McCloskey’s Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics is probably the most important academic book I ever read – here is an economist who discusses Aristotle, statistics, [...]

New repository for heterodox economics reading lists

January 24th, 2010

Thanks to the initiative of Dr. Andy Denis (Director of Undergraduate Studies, Economics Department, City University London), The Economics Network of the UK’s Higher Education Academy offers publications and more, including a Heterodox Reading List, a selective collection of McCloskey’s course reading lists.
Current and archived reading lists for Professor McCloskey’s courses remain stored in the [...]

Chapter 3 of The Bourgeois Revaluation:
But the Bourgeoisie Has Been Disdained

January 22nd, 2010

Dear Reader: This is a rough draft (Jan. 2010) of The Bourgeois Revaluation: How Innovation Became Virtuous, 1600-1848. Three asterisks *** or the bold or NNN (for a name) or DDDD (for a date) and the many pages with “items [perhaps] to be inserted” indicate only some of the numerous things to be [...]

Interview question: “Best business book you ever read?” Answer: “The Bourgeois Virtues by Deirdre McCloskey.”

January 19th, 2010

So says Michael Weiner, land development and zoning attorney credited with the redevelopment of Delray Beach. (The Palm Beach Post, “Virtues at Weiner and Associates law firm: Patience, confidence” by Alexandra Clough, 15 January 2010.
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Who is Michael Weiner?

Bourgeois Virtues is among Peter Boettke’s favorites of the (first decade of) 2000’s.

January 18th, 2010

Written December 30, 2009:
[Favorite] Books — tie between Chris Coyne’s After War, and Peter Leeson’s The Invisible Hook, with honorable mention going to Bill Easterly (both The Elusive Quest, and The White Man’s Burden) and Deirdre McCloskey, The Bourgeois Virtues.
Peter Boettke
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“I’m eagerly awaiting the arrival of Deirdre McCloskey’s books on the subject.”

January 17th, 2010

Josh McCabe, responding to Nick Krafft’s Transition to Capitalism and Overdetermination, January 4, 2010. See full entry.

“Kling’s triangle … is back in focus due to my reading of Hayek and McCloskey.”

January 16th, 2010

Excerpts from Aretae, January 15, 2010 (author unknown):

Kling’s triangle … is back in focus due to my reading of Hayek and McCloskey.
One of the most fascinating arguments in the first tenth of Deirdre McCloskey’s new book is her line that Europe conquered the world for 1 reason…. it’s the Romer/Friedman/Moldbug argument, but it’s good. [...]

“Whole Foods” C.E.O. John Mackey: a devotee of Bourgeois Virtues?

January 12th, 2010

John Mackey [photo: Dan Winters]
From an article in the New Yorker by Nick Paumgarten, “Does Whole Foods Know What’s Good for You?” Prudentia discovers John Mackey’s book interests:

He sits in a recliner, surrounded by stacks of books. He gives them a good working over, marking them with underlinings, highlighter, and Post-its. He is, as [...]