How to be Human-- Though an EconomistUniversity of Michigan Press, 2000 - 287 páginas In this thoroughly engaging book Deirdre McCloskey puts the "dismal science" under the microscope. She offers advice to young economists, offering models from the old; and she lambastes the middle-aged who have allowed economics to become, as she puts it with characteristic verve, "a boys' game in a sandbox." McCloskey deploys her wit and style to serious purpose: to bring economics back to science. Anyone can learn about the field of economics from How to Be Human. She can learn how economics works as a discipline and as a piece of sociology, who the heroes are and the villains, how a career in economics relates to matters of ethics and epistemology. She can learn what it is like to be a new woman in a boys' subject, a subject that avoids at all costs the word "love." During the 1990s Deirdre McCloskey established herself as the main internal critic of the economic mainstream. Her quarterly columns in the Eastern Economic Journal, many of which are collected here, have become a handbook for reform. Trained in economics herself, she knows the normal science of the field from the inside: she has done it as a distinguished economic historian; and has watched it work from the faculties of Chicago (for twelve years) and Iowa (for nineteen), and now at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her criticism from the inside is that the two methods on which economics has depended since the 1940s--existence-theorem mathematics and significance-testing statistics--are nonsense. They have, she claims, nothing to do with economic science, and have massively diverted economists from finding out how the economy works. McCloskey's book is written for anyone interested in economics, whether trained in it or not--anyone who cares about the economy but is not taken in by the boys' game. Deirdre McCloskey is University Professor of the Human Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago. |
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Índice
Be Who You Are Even if an Economist | 1 |
It Helps to Be a Don if Youre Going to Be a Deirdre | 7 |
A Libertarian Abroad | 10 |
Love or Money | 12 |
Make Your Economics Courageously Part of Your Identity and Vice Versa | 17 |
Better than Plowing Says Jim Buchanan | 22 |
The Economic Tourism of Armen Alchian | 28 |
The Persuasive Life of Friedrich Hayek | 32 |
Dont Specialize without Intellectual Trade | 149 |
The Invisible College and the Death of Learning | 155 |
Read More Widely | 161 |
Reading Ive Liked in the Humanities | 167 |
Learn Price Theory Which Is No Easy Task | 173 |
The Natural | 178 |
Why Economics Should Not Be Taught in High School | 182 |
Dont Be Silly about Statistical Significance | 187 |
Some Buried Female Lives in Economics | 37 |
Get Ethics beyond Have a Nice Career | 43 |
What You Read Is What You Are | 49 |
Cheating as a Scientist | 52 |
Follow the Brave | 59 |
The Coolness of Alexander Gerschenkron | 65 |
The Passion of Robert Fogel | 78 |
Work and Pray | 91 |
How to Host a Seminar Visitor | 96 |
To Burn Always with a Hard Gemlike Flame | 101 |
How to Work | 106 |
Watch Your Words and the Work They Do | 111 |
The Rhetoric of Economic Development and of P T Bauer | 116 |
The Rhetoric of Finance | 121 |
Keynes Was a Sophist and a Good Thing Too | 126 |
Learn to Write at Least Competently | 131 |
Why Write Well? | 137 |
Yes Competence Is Profitable Now That You Ask But Why Ask? | 140 |
Why Economic Historians Should Drop Statistical Significance and Seek Oomph | 194 |
The Bankruptcy of Statistical Significance | 201 |
The Insignificance of Statistical Significance | 205 |
And Dont Be Silly about APrime CPrime Proofs in Economics Either | 209 |
In Brief Its Arrogant and Unscientific | 215 |
Quarreling with Ken Arrow about Existence Theorems | 220 |
Take Rules 11 and 12 Entirely Seriously | 227 |
Ask What the Boys in the Sandbox Will Have | 233 |
Cassandras Open Letter to Her Economist Colleagues | 238 |
Simulate Simulate Calibrate Calibrate | 247 |
Calibrated Simulation Is Outstripping Analytic Solutions | 250 |
Simulating Barbara | 253 |
Yet Dont Be Too Certain of Your Expertise | 263 |
Modesty Is the Best Policy Says Herbert Stein | 266 |
References | 269 |
Index of Names | 279 |
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