Deirdre McCloskey on the point at which economic analysis can stop, and not before
31 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
Deirdre McCloskey on the fatal conceit
30 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, entrepreneurship, liberalism Tags: Deirdre McCloskey, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge
HT: Cafe Hayek
The role of Bollywood in the fall of the Permit Raj and emergence of the Indian economic miracle
30 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
Deirdre McCloskey’s Crossing: A Memoir
29 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
in liberalism Tags: cricket, Deirdre McCloskey, gender wage gap
When Donald at the age of 52 told his university dean, a conservative economist, he had decided to become a woman a stunned silence was followed by:
Thank God … I thought for a moment you were going to confess to converting to socialism.
The dean also joked it would be good for the department’s affirmative action program – one less man, one more woman – and that McCloskey’s pay could now be cut to about 70¢ in the dollar, since she would be a female.
Sadly, his son, daughter and former wife turned away from this new person.
His sister and one of her academic colleagues conspired to have him committed as mentally incompetent — unfit to sign papers for optional surgical procedures.
They devised a theory that he was manic and that his mania could be treated with psychopharmacology.
Twice during his determined journey into womanhood, they managed to have him incarcerated — handcuffed, locked away where he could not harm himself, at first in the University of Iowa Hospital’s mental ward and later in the University of Chicago Hospital.
Deirdre McCloskey’s mother and brother were bulwarks of support; her sister is moving toward reconciliation. She has finally stopped calling her ”Donald.”
McCloskey expected to lose everything because of the gender transition but her academic career survived. McCloskey’s former wife and two adult children have not spoken to her since 1995.
Her 16 books and 400-odd academic articles range from highly technical economics to philosophy, ethics and transgender advocacy. McCloskey’s Twitter biography is a reasonable 15-word summary of her:
Postmodern, quantitative, literary, ex-Marxist, economist, historian, progressive Episcopalian, coastie-bred Chicagoan woman who was once not.
More unusually for an American, she loves cricket. McCloskey even played wicket-keeper for the University of Illinois cricket team, which was made up mostly of players from the subcontinent and Jamaica.
HT: Sydney Morning Herald and New York Times
Deirdre McCloskey on the right way to get angry about poverty and inequality
19 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
Deirdre McCloskey (2001) on the state of modern industrial organisation economics
15 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
Deirdre McCloskey on the axiom of goodwill in public policy making in left-wing circles
06 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
Deirdre McCloskey – Equality vs. Lifting Up the Poor
21 Aug 2014 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, constitutional political economy, development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, liberalism Tags: Deirdre McCloskey, poverty versus inequality, The Age of Enlightenment, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
HT: deirdremccloskey via cafehayek
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