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Bourgeois Dignity
''Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World'' is a 2010 book by economist and social theorist Deirdre McCloskey that is the second of a three-book series laying out the thesis that a change in the rhetoric surrounding the value of business, innovation, and entrepreneurship was the main factor responsible for the takeoff of economic growth in Northwest Europe in the late 18th century. ''Bourgeois Dignity'' focuses on arguing that there was a fairly significant and unprecedented takeoff of economic growth, and that existing explanations for this takeoff are inadequate. McCloskey provides a rough outline for why she thinks that the changes in rhetoric surrounding the dignity of business and markets were crucial, but leaves the elaborate case for later books in the series. Reception Promotion Around the time of the book release, ''National Review'' published an interview of McCloskey. McCloskey has also given lengthy talks on the themes of the book, some of w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deirdre McCloskey
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (born Donald N. McCloskey; September 11, 1942 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is the distinguished professor of economics, history, english, and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She is also adjunct professor of philosophy and classics there, and for five years was a visiting professor of philosophy at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Since October 2007 she has received six honorary doctorates. In 2013, she received the Julian L. Simon Memorial Award from the Competitive Enterprise Institute for her work examining factors in history that led to advancement in human achievement and prosperity. Her main research interests include the origins of the modern world, the misuse of statistical significance in economics and other sciences, and the study of capitalism, among many others. Career McCloskey earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics at Harvard University. Her dissertation, supervised by Alexander Gerschenkron, on B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erasmus Journal For Philosophy And Economics
The ''Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics'' (''EJPE'') is a peer-reviewed open access interdisciplinary journal of philosophy, history, and economics. It is supported by the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics of Erasmus University Rotterdam, and is published twice a year. The journal also hosts the Mark Blaug Prize in Philosophy and Economics, awarded to a graduate student or recent graduate. Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in ABI/INFORM, Business Source Premier, Business Source Elite, EconLit, Philosopher's Index, and Scopus. See also * List of economics journals * List of history journals * List of philosophy journals This is a list of academic journals pertaining to the field of philosophy. Journals in Catalan * '' Filosofia, ara!'' Journals in Czech * '' Filosofický časopis'' * '' Reflexe'' Journals in Danish * '' Kierkegaard Studies Monograph Ser ... References External links *{{Official, https://w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Books About Economic History
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is ''codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's ''Physics'' is called a bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Review Of Austrian Economics
''The Review of Austrian Economics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. It was established by Murray Rothbard, who edited ten volumes between 1987 and 1997. After his death, Walter Block, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and Joseph T. Salerno edited the journal for two years. It was published by Lexington Books and later by Kluwer Academic Publishers. The Ludwig von Mises Institute then replaced the journal with the ''Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics''. The review is now affiliated with George Mason University. In 1999 it continued publication with volume 11. at website. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Review Of Austrian Economics
''The Review of Austrian Economics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. It was established by Murray Rothbard, who edited ten volumes between 1987 and 1997. After his death, Walter Block, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and Joseph T. Salerno edited the journal for two years. It was published by Lexington Books and later by Kluwer Academic Publishers. The Ludwig von Mises Institute then replaced the journal with the ''Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics''. The review is now affiliated with George Mason University. In 1999 it continued publication with volume 11. at website. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Books And Culture
''Books & Culture: A Christian Review'' (B&C) was a bimonthly book review journal published by ''Christianity Today'' International from 1995 to 2016. The journal was launched a year after the publication of ''The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind'' by Mark A. Noll, and it sought to address that scandal by providing a vehicle for Christian intellectual engagement with ideas and culture, modeled on the ''New York Review of Books.'' It was launched and subsidized through its early years with the help of grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts. John Wilson edited the publication and Noll and Philip Yancey served as cochairs of the editorial board. While the publisher and the majority of ''Books & Culture's'' writers were evangelical, the magazine was not limited to evangelical perspectives. "Roman Catholics, Anglicans, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Jews, and a few nonbelievers" could be found among the publication's contributors, according to the ''New York Times''. In 2000, Alan Wolfe ob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rich Lowry
Richard Lowry (; born August 22, 1968) is an American writer who is the former editor and now editor-in-chief of ''National Review'', an American Conservatism in the United States, conservative news and opinion magazine. Lowry became editor of ''National Review'' in 1997 when selected by its founder, William F. Buckley, Jr., to lead the magazine. Lowry is also a syndicated columnist, author, and political analyst who is a frequent guest on NBC News and ''Meet the Press''. He has written four books. Life and career Lowry was born and grew up in Arlington County, Virginia, Arlington, Virginia, the son of a social worker mother and an English professor father. After graduating from Yorktown High School (Virginia), Yorktown High School in Arlington, Lowry attended the University of Virginia, where he studied English and history. He was editor of the ''Virginia Advocate'', the school's conservative monthly magazine. After graduating, he worked for Charles Krauthammer as a research assis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Statesman
The ''New Statesman'' is a British political and cultural magazine published in London. Founded as a weekly review of politics and literature on 12 April 1913, it was at first connected with Sidney and Beatrice Webb and other leading members of the socialist Fabian Society, such as George Bernard Shaw, who was a founding director. Today, the magazine is a print–digital hybrid. According to its present self-description, it has a liberal and progressive political position. Jason Cowley, the magazine's editor, has described the ''New Statesman'' as a publication "of the left, for the left" but also as "a political and literary magazine" with "sceptical" politics. The magazine was founded by members of the Fabian Society as a weekly review of politics and literature. The longest-serving editor was Kingsley Martin (1930–1960), and the current editor is Jason Cowley, who assumed the post in 2008. The magazine has recognised and published new writers and critics, as well as e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Coyle
Diane Coyle (born February 1961) is an economist and a former advisor to the UK Treasury. She was vice-chairman of the BBC Trust, the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and was a member of the UK Competition Commission from 2001 until 2019. Since March 2018, she has been the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, co-directing the Bennett Institute. Early life Coyle was born in Bury, Lancashire, and attended Bury Grammar School (Girls), Bury Grammar School for Girls, where a teacher engaged her "very sceptical and mathematical" mind with the logical way of thinking required in economics. She did her undergraduate studies at Brasenose College, Oxford, reading philosophy, politics, and economics, before gaining an MA and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, graduating in 1985, her thesis was titled ''The dynamic behaviour of employment (wages, contracts, productivity, business cycle)''. Career Coyle was an economist at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Better Angels Of Our Nature
''The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined'' is a 2011 book by Steven Pinker, in which the author argues that violence in the world has declined both in the long run and in the short run and suggests explanations as to why this has occurred. The book uses data simply documenting declining violence across time and geography. This paints a picture of massive declines in the violence of all forms, from war, to improved treatment of children. He highlights the role of Nation state, nation-state Monopoly on violence, monopolies on force, of commerce (making other people become more valuable alive than dead), of increased literacy and Influence of mass media, communication (promoting empathy), as well as a rise in a Rationality, rational problem-solving orientation as possible causes of this decline in violence. He notes that Paradox, paradoxically, our impression of violence has not tracked this decline, perhaps because of increased communication, and that further decl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Pinker
Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, and his academic specializations are visual cognition and developmental linguistics. His experimental subjects include mental imagery, shape recognition, visual attention, children's language development, regular and irregular phenomena in language, the neural bases of words and grammar, as well as the psychology of cooperation and communication, including euphemism, innuendo, emotional expression, and common knowledge. He has written two technical books that proposed a general theory of language acquisition and applied it to children's learning of verbs. In particular, his work with Alan Prince published in 1989 critiqued the connectionist model of how children ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clemson University
Clemson University () is a public land-grant research university in Clemson, South Carolina. Founded in 1889, Clemson is the second-largest university in the student population in South Carolina. For the fall 2019 semester, the university enrolled a total of 20,195 undergraduate students and 5,627 graduate students, and the student/faculty ratio was 18:1. Clemson's 1,400-acre campus is in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The campus now borders Lake Hartwell, which was formed by the dam completed in 1962. The university manages the nearby 17,500-acre Clemson Experimental Forest that is used for research, education, and recreation. Clemson University consists of seven colleges: Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences; Architecture, Arts and Humanities; The Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business; Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences; Education; Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences; and Science. '' U.S. News & World Report'' ranks Clemson University 77th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
