Bettering Humanomics

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is distinguished professor emerita of economics and of history and professor emerita of English and of communication, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of two dozen books including Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, Bourgeois Equality, Crossing: A Transgender Memoir, and Economical Writing.

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey latest meticulous work examines how economics can become a more "human" science

• PrefacePart I. The ProposalChapter 1. Humanomics and Liberty Promise Better Economic ScienceChapter 2. Adam Smith Practiced Humanomics, and So Should WeChapter 3. Economic History Illustrates the Problems with NonhumanomicsChapter 4. An Economic Science Needs the HumanitiesChapter 5. It’s Merely a Matter of Common Sense and Intellectual Free TradeChapter 6. After All, Sweet Talk Rules a Free EconomyChapter 7. Therefore We Should Walk on Both Feet, Like Ludwig LachmannChapter 8. That Is, Economics Needs Theories of Human Minds beyond BehaviorismPart II. The Killer AppChapter 9. The Killer App of Humanomics Is the Evidence That the Great Enrichment Came from Ethics and RhetoricChapter 10. The Dignity of Liberalism Did ItChapter 11. Ideas, Not Incentives, Underlie ItChapter 12. Even as to Time and LocationChapter 13. The Word’s the ThingPart III. The DoubtsChapter 14. Doubts by Analytic Philosophers about the Killer App Are Not PersuasiveChapter 15. Nor by Sociologists or Political PhilosophersChapter 16. Nor Even by Economic HistoriansNotesWorks CitedIndex