Deirdre Mc Closkey - Publications

Publications

• Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World (November 2010) University of Chicago Press
• The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives (January 2008) University of Michigan Press (with Stephen T. Ziliak)
• The Bourgeois Virtues : Ethics for an Age of Commerce (June 2006) University of Chicago Press
• The Economic Conversation (2008) (with Arjo Klamer and Stephen Ziliak)
• The Secret Sins of Economics (August 2002)
• Crossing: A Memoir (September 1999) is McCloskey's account of her growing recognition (while a boy and man) of her female identity, and her transition — both surgical and social — into a woman (including her reluctant divorce from her wife). Following sex-reassignment surgery, the book describes her new life continuing her career as a female academic economist.
• Measurement and Meaning in Economics: The Essential Deirdre McCloskey (1999) (edited by Stephen Ziliak)
• The Vices of Economists, the Virtues of the Bourgeoisie (1996)
• Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics (1994)
• Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of U.S. Economic History (1993)
• A Bibliography of Historical Economics to 1980 (1990)
• If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise (1990)
• The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric (1988)
• The Writing of Economics (1987) reprinted as Economical Writing (2000)
• Econometric History (1987)
• The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences: Language and Argument in Scholarship and Public Affairs (1987)
• The Rhetoric of Economics (1985 & 1998)
• The Applied Theory of Price (1982 & 1985)
• Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain: Essays in Historical Economics (1981)
• Economic Maturity and Entrepreneurial Decline: British Iron & Steel, 1870-1913 (1973)
• Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain after 1840 (1971)