Born "Donald" Sept 11, 1942, Ann Arbor, Michigan; married 1965-95; divorced; children: Daniel (b. 1969); Margaret (b. 1975); gender change November 1995, GRS June 1996.
University Professor of the Human Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1999-present (Professor of History and of Economics)
Tinbergen Distinguished Professor, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1997-present
Faculty, Summer School of EDAMBA (European Doctoral Programmes Association for Management and Business Administration), Auch, France, 1997-present
Office: c/o Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, University Hall, MC 228, 601 S. Morgan, Chicago, IL 60607-7104.
Home: 720 S. Dearborn, #206, Chicago, IL 60605.
Professor of History, University of Iowa, 1980-99
Professor of Economics, University of Iowa, 1980-99
John F. Murray Chair in Economics, University of Iowa, 1984-99
Tinbergen Visiting Professor of Economics, Philosophy, and Art and Cultural Studies, Erasmus University, Jan-Jan 1996.
Honorary Simon Fellow, Department of History, University of Manchester, England, May-June 1992.
Fellow, Bellagio Study Center, Rockefeller Foundation, July 14-August 16, 1991: open fields.
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of York, England, May-June 1985 and 1986.
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, academic 1983-1984.
Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University (rhetoric of economics; open fields); visiting Lecturer, Department of Economic History, Faculties, ANU, May-August, 1982.
Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago, 1979-1980, tenured.
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, 1973-1980; tenured 1975.
Honorary Research Fellow, Department of History, Birkbeck College, University of London; Academic Visitor, London School of Economics, Sept, 1975-July, 1976.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford University, spring 1972.
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, 1968-1973.
B.A. Economics, Harvard College, 1964; Ph.D. Economics, Harvard University, 1970
Summer School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth 1988.
Summer School in Law for Economics Professors, Dartmouth 1990.
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1983.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1984.
May Brodbeck Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Iowa, 1987-1988.
Phi Beta Kappa Lecturer, 1992-93.
Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, Aug-Dec 1999.
Distinguished Visiting Faculty Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California at Riverside, Jan-June 2000.
National Science Foundation, on The Enclosure of English Open Fields, 1975-1980, some $40,000.
National Science Foundation, on reading in economics, 1987-1989, $45,000.
National Endowment for the Humanities grant for support of humanists in the Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry, $150,000, 1989-1993.
National Science Foundation, on the historical extent of the market, 1992-1993, $85,000.
Chair, Department of Economics, University of Iowa, 1981 and 1982.
Director, Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry (Poroi), University of Iowa, 1985-1999 (Honorary Founding Director, 2000-present).
University: Search for Academic Vice-President (Chair 1988-89); University Advancement (1988-89); Institutional Audit (1988-89); Faculty Senate (1986-89); Review for the Department of English (1985); Editorial Board, University of Iowa Press (1984-87; Chair 1986-87); Selection of Faculty Scholars (1980, 1986); Faculty Welfare 1992-93; Research Council 1995, 1997-99.
College of Liberal Arts: Executive (1985-88); Educational Policy (1989-92; secretary 1990); Unified Program (1988-97).
Economics: Recruiting and Advisory (1980, 84, 85, 86, 89, 91, 92); Undergraduate (1980, 1992-93); Placement Director (1984-85).
History: African History Search, 1984-85; Russian History Search, 1985-86; Chair, Departmental Self-study, 1994.
Director of Graduate Studies, Economics 1976-80; Committee on Public Policy Studies 1979-80; Social Science Collegiate Division governing committee 1974-80; Chair, Galler Prize, Division of the Social Sciences 1977-79; board member and sometime Acting Director, Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences 1976-80.
Co-editor (with John Nelson and John Lyne; David Depew and John Peters)), Wisconsin University Press, book series on The Rhetoric of Inquiry, 1990 - ; twenty books in print.
Co-editor (with John Nelson), University of Chicago Press, New Practices of Inquiry, 1990 - ; six books in print.
Co-editor (overlapping with R. Sylla 1980-1984 and with C. Goldin 1984-1986), Journal of Economic History, 1980-1986.
Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1986-1987.
Contributing Editor, Critical Review, 1990 - ;
Contributing Editor, Reason.
Journal of Economic History, 1974-1979; Explorations in Economic History, 1974-1980; American review editor of Economic History Review, 1976-1979; Economics and Philosophy, 1983-1996; Journal of British Studies, 1983-1991; Economic Inquiry, 1985-1991; Reason 1992- ; Journal of Economic Method 1993-1998 ; Feminist Economics 1994 - ; American Economic Review, 1997-1998.
Mathematical Social Sciences Board, NSF, for British economic history, Sept 1970.
NSF and British Social Science Research Council, two conferences on British economic history (Sept 1972-August 1974); with R. Floud.
British SSRC (with R. Floud), on preliminary chapters in a new economic history of England.
National Science Foundation, a series of annual "Cliometrics Conferences" (jointly with P. Lindert for 1977 and 1978; alone for 1979, 1980, and 1981; jointly with S. Williamson 1982-1986).
National Endowment for the Humanities, Iowa Humanities Board, and University of Iowa (with J. Nelson and A. Megill), on the rhetoric of the human sciences, 1984.
National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, and the National Science Foundation (with A. Klamer and R. Solow), for the rhetoric of economics, Apr 1986.
Russell Sage Foundation (with A. Megill), Sociology of Knowledge and the Rhetoric of Inquiry, Oct 1987.
Liberty Fund, the Rhetoric of Liberty, Montana, Oct, 1990.
and a dozen or so others.
Lecturer, Murphy Institute of Political Economy and Policy Analysis: The Boundaries of Economics (Tulane University, Mar 1985).
Institute for Humane Studies, Distinguished Scholars Interdisciplinary Lectures (George Mason University, Feb 1986).
Thomas E. Sutherland Fellow (University of Michigan Law School, Mar 1986).
Franklin Lectures in Science and the Humanities (Auburn University, Apr 1986).
Schmidt-Fellner Lecture (Colby college, Sept 1986).
C. Woody Thompson Memorial Lecture (Midwest Economics Association, St. Louis, Mar 26, 1987).
Miller Lecture, University of Illinois, May 6, 1987 (cosponsored by departments of Accountancy, Business Administration, Economics, Educational Policy Studies, English, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, Political Science, Speech Communication, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory).
Norman Freehling Professorship, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Sept 1989.
Carl Snyder Memorial Lecture, Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Mar 1990.
Keynote address, Pennsylvania State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, July 1992.
Phi Beta Kappa Lecturer, academic year 1992-1993 (two-day appearances at University of Arkansas, University of Dallas, Mary Washington College, Randolph-Macon Women's College, University of Virginia, Purdue University, Denison University, Agnes Scott College, Kansas State University, University of Notre Dame, Clark University, Luther College).
Named annual lectures at University of South Dakota (Oct 20-22, 1993), Hillsdale College (Apr 17-18, 1994), Williams College (Nov 1994, and keynote address at Southern Economic Association, Nov 1994).
others in recent years: numerous.
Thesis supervisions and thesis committees in Economics, numerous; in History, Sociology, and Business
Economics: British Economic History (graduate and undergraduate Economics 348/History 245), 1969-1979, annual; American Economic history (undergraduate Economics 220/History 377), 1969-1979, as required; Workshop in Economic history (graduate, organizer), 1972-1980; Price Theory I (graduate Economics 300), 1969-1979, annual; Introduction to Economics (undergraduate Economics 200), 1969-1979, nearly annual; Econography (How to Write in Economics), non-credit graduate seminar, three times.
Other: Business History (Graduate School of Business 404, first such course), once, 1979; Economics for Public Policy (graduate Program in Public Policy Studies, Public Policy 300), 1978-1979; Freedom and Authority (undergraduate, Social Science 113), 1968; Quantitative Methods for Social Sciences (graduate), once, 1970.
Numerous thesis supervisions and committee service in Economics and in History; service on three thesis committees in Communication Studies; two in Geography; one in English.
Economics: Microeconomics (Economics 103, undergrad) 1980, 1987, fall 1992; Introductory Micro Economics (undergrad; 450 students: joint with Albrecht, Daly, and Nordquist) 1982, 1986, singly spring 1993); Introductory Macro Economics (undergrad, 80 students, joint with Arjo Klamer), 1988; 430 students joint with A. Klamer 1989; Economics for Poets spring 1994; Law and Economics (undergrad) spring 1994; Price Theory for Graduate Students, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1990; Philosophy of Economics (grad) 1983, 1985, fall 1990, fall 1991.
History: Quantitative methods of Historians (grad), 1982, fall 1990; Western Civilization, 1750-present (undergrad, 430 students), 1988, 1989, spring 1991, fall 1991, spring 1994; Philosophy of History (graduate, spring 1997); Modern British Survey, 1750-1867, spring 1995, spring 1997; 1867-Present, spring 1998.
Crosslisted History and Economics: the New Economic History (grad history and economics seminar) 1980, 1988; British Economic History (undergrad), 1982; American Economic History (undergrad) 1984, 1985, 1992; 1997, 1999; Introduction to World Economic History (undergrad) fall 1993; graduate seminar in economic history and rhetoric ("the Sunday Seminar") 1991-present with a dozen students in History, Economics, and Geography; Bourgeois Virtue, undergraduate and graduate, 1997-98.
Interdisciplinary Courses at Iowa:
Literature, Science and the Arts (undergraduate): The Good Society (with David Hamilton [English], spring 1986); Capitalism and Romance (with Donald Marshall [English]), spring 1989); Greek and Modern Science (with Marlena Corcoran [English] and Steven Spangler [Physics]), fall 1993; Bourgeois Virtue (with Marlena Corcoran), fall 1994; two-day intensive course on Gender Crossing [Sexuality Studies, with Michelle Eliason, spring 1999]; (with Colin Bell), Business Ethics (1994,95).
Other Unified Program Course (see also Economics above); Western Civilization I (fall 1990)
Rhetoric of Inquiry (grad, with John Lyne [Communication Studies], spring 1989);
Rhetoric of Inquiry (grad, with John Nelson [Political Science], fall 1994.
Fall 1999, Bourgeois Virtue (graduate interdisciplinary seminar); fall 2000, World Economic History (graduate interdisciplinary)
Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University, August 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000: The Economics of Art (with Arjo Klamer, Judith Mehta, Jack Amariglio).
EDAMBA, Château de Bonas, Castéra-Verduzan, Near Auch, France, July 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000: The Rhetoric of Management.
Erasmus University of Rotterdam, 1996: The Words of Science (with Uskali Mäki); Bourgeois Virtue; Economic History (all: mixed undergraduate/graduate).
University of York, May-June, 1985-1986: Topics in American Economic and Social History, 1985, 1986 (undergrad); Problem Solving in Price Theory, 1985, 1986 (undergrad).
Australian National University, summer, 1982: Topics in Cliometric History (undergrad).
Stanford University, spring, 1972: British Economic History (undergrad).
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Brief items are indented.
[1] Economic Maturity and Entrepreneurial Decline: British Iron and Steel, 1870-1913. Harvard Economic Studies. Harvard University Press, 1973. (David A. Wells Prize.)
[2] Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain: Essays in Historical Economics. Allen and Unwin, 1981; reprinted 1993 by Gregg Revivals (Godstone, Surrey, England).
Econometric History, for the British Economic History Society. Macmillan U.K., 1987. Trans. into Japanese 1992.
[3] The Applied Theory of Price. Macmillan, 1982; second revised edition, 1985. International student edition 1985; Spanish trans. Teoria de Precios Aplicada (Mexico: CECSA: Compania Editorial Continental, S. A.), 1990. Czech trans. Aplikovaná Teorie Ceny (Praha: Státni pedagogické, 1993).
[6] The Writing of Economics. NY: Macmillan, 1986, a 90-page libellus from the article "Economical Writing" below. Second Revised Edition as Economical Writing, Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press, 1999.
[4] The Rhetoric of Economics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. British edition: Wheatsheaf 1986. Italian translation: La Retorica dell' Economia: Scienza e letturatura nel discorso economico, with an introduction by Augusto Graziani (Torino: Giulio Einaudi, 1988; trans. Bianca Maria Testa; series Nuovo Politecnico no. 165); Spanish (Alianza, 1990); Japanese (Harvest Sha 1992). Second Revised Edition, 1998. Hungarian translation, Europa Publishing, forthcoming 2000. Chinese translation said to be forthcoming.
[5] If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise. University of Chicago Press, 1990; paperback Spring 1992. Spanish translation Si eres tan listo: La narrativa de los expertos en economía (Madrid: Alianza 1993), trans. Graciela Sylvestre and Victoriano Martin. Chinese Translation said to be forthcoming, Chien Hua Publishing. (Chapter 11 reprinted in Daniel Klein, ed., What Do Economists Contribute?, Macmillan Press, 1998.)
[10] Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics. Cambridge University Press 1994.
[220]The Vices of Economists; The Virtues of the Bourgeoisie. University of Amsterdam Press and University of Michigan Press, 1997.
How to Be Human* *Though an Economist. Forthcoming, University of Michigan Press, 2000.
A reworking of four dozen of the shorter pieces below that concern the profession of economist' advice to young economists, stories of Great Economists I Have Known, and criticisms of the field for its devotion to blackboard proof and mechanical use of statistical significance
[225] Crossing: A Memoir. University of Chicago Press, 1999. Named December 1999 among New York Times "Notable Books of 1999." Excerpts published in Reason magazine (December 1999); Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, Jan 30, 2000. Japanese translation, Bungie Shunju Ltd. forthcoming 2001. Movie rights under negotiation.
[12] Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain after 1840. Methuen, 1971; and Princeton University Press, 1971.
[13] [with Roderick Floud] The Economic History of Britain, 1700-Present. 2 vols. Cambridge University Press, 1981; second revised edition (3 vols.) 1994.
[16] [with George Hersh, Jr.] A Bibliography of Historical Economics to 1980. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
[18] Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of U.S. Economic History. Oxford University Press, 1992. Paperback 1994.
[14] [with John Nelson and Allan Megill] The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences: Language and Argument in Scholarship and Public Affairs. University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
[15] [with Arjo Klamer and Robert Solow] The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
[21] "Productivity Change in British Pig Iron, 1870-1939," Quarterly Journal of Economics 82 (May 1968): 281-96.
[100] "Review of Birch's British Iron and Steel," Business History Review 43 (Fall 1969): 412-14.
[123] "The British Iron and Steel Industry" Journal of Economic History 29 (Mar 1969): 173-75.
[22] "Did Victorian Britain Fail?" Economic History Review 23 (Dec 1970): 446-59.
[23] (a.) "Victorian Growth: A Rejoinder [to Derek Aldcroft]," Economic History Review 27 (May 1974): 275-77
[ 24] (b.) "No It Did Not: A Reply to Craft [to his Comment on 'Did Victorian Britain Fail'?]" Economic History Review 32 (Nov 1979): 538-41.
[25] (c.) "A Counterfactual Dialogue with William Kennedy on Late Victorian Failure or the Lack of It," pp. 119-126 in McCloskey, Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain 1981 [1993].
[26] (d.) "Discussion" (of William Kennedy and William Phillips), Journal of Economic History 42 (Mar 1982): 117-118.
"[28a] International Differences in Productivity? Coal and Steel in America and Britain Before World War I," in Essays on a Mature Economy (1971), cited above, Chapter. 8, pp. 285-304.
[ 29b] "An Exchange with David Landes," pp. 305-309, in Essays on a Mature Economy (1971).
[29] [with L.G. Sandberg] "From Damnation to Redemption: Judgments on the Late Victorian Entrepreneur," Explorations in Economic History 9 (Fall 1971): 89-108
[109] "Review of Sandberg's Lancashire in Decline," Journal of Political Economy 84 (Feb 1976): 198-200.
[113] "Review of Hannah's The Rise of the Corporate Economy: The British Experience," American Historical Review 82 (Dec, 1977): 1258-59.
[116] "Review of Matthews, Feinstein, and Odling-Smee, British Economic Growth 1855-1973," Times Literary Supplement 462 (May 6, 1983):
[121] "Review of Kennedy's Industrial Structure, Capital Markets, and the Origins of British Economic Decline," Economic History Review 42 (Feb 1989): 141-143.
[160a] "Is America in Decline?" Des Moines Register, Sept 1990. A revised version in The Key Reporter, 60 (2, Winter 1994-1995): 1-3. Trans. and distributed by United States Information Service in Bangladesh.
[155a] "Review of "Thurow's The Zero-Sum Solution," Des Moines Register, Jan 9, 1986.
[155] "Competitiveness and the Anti-Economics of Decline," pp. 167-173 in McCloskey, ed., Myths and Morals of U.S. Economic History (Oxford 1992).
[27] "Britain's Loss from Foreign Industrialization: A Provisional Estimate," Explorations in Economic History 8 (Winter 1970-71): 141-52.
[30] "Magnanimous Albion: Free Trade and British National Income, 1841-1881," Explorations in Economic History 17 (July, 1980): 303-320; reprinted Forrest Capie, ed. Protectionism in the World Economy (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1992).
[31] (a.) "Reply to Peter Cain," Explorations in Economic History 19 (Apr 1982): 208-210.
[32] "From Dependence to Autonomy: Judgments on Trade as an Engine of British Growth." Pp. 139-154 in McCloskey, Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain (1981) (1993).
[33] [with R.P. Thomas] "Overseas Trade and Empire, 1700-1820," Chapter 4 in Floud and McCloskey, The Economic History of Britain, 1700-Present (1981), Vol. 1, pp. 87-102.
[34] [with C.K. Harley] "Foreign Trade: Competition and the Expanding International Economy, 1820-1914," Chapter 17 in Floud and McCloskey, The Economic History of Britain, 1700-Present (1981), Vol. 2, pp. 50-69.
[104] "Review of Ramsey's The Price Revolution in 16th Century England," Journal of Political Economy 80 (Nov/Dec, 1972): 1332-35.
[35] [with J. Richard Zecher] "How the Gold Standard Worked, 1880-1913," in J.A. Frenkel and H.G. Johnson, eds., The Monetary Approach to the Balance of Payments (Allen and Unwin, 1976), pp. 357-385; reprinted as pp. 63-80 in B. Eichengreen, ed., The Gold Standard in Theory and History (Methuen, 1985).
[36] [with J. Richard Zecher] "The Success of Purchasing Power Parity: Historical Evidence and Its Implications for Macroeconomics," in Michael Bordo and Anna J. Schwartz, eds., A Retrospective on the Classical Gold Standard 1821-1931(NBER, University of Chicago Press, 1984), pp. 121-150.
[167a] "Mars Collides with Earth, review of Volcker and Gyohten's Changing Fortunes: The World's Money and the Threat to American Leadership," Reason, 24 (10, Mar 1993): 60-62.
[175] {"The Extent of the Market: Market Integration in World History." For Lerici Conference on the Market in History, Apr 1993.}
[215] "The Gulliver Effect," Scientific American (Sept 1995): 44.
"Review of Gray's False Dawn and Friedman's The Lexus and the Olive Tree" for the Minnesota Journal of Global Trade (a new journal from the Law School at the University of Minnesota), forthcoming 2000, 20 pp.
[37] "The Enclosure of Open Fields: Preface to a Study of Its Impact on the Efficiency of English Agriculture in the Eighteenth Century," Journal of Economic History 32 (1, Mar, 1972): 15-35.
[105] "Review of Williams' Draining of the Somerset Levels," Journal of Economic History 32 (4, Dec, 1972): 1021-23.
[38] "The Persistence of English Common Fields," in E.L. Jones and William Parker (eds.), European Peasants and Their Markets: Essays in Agrarian Economic History (Princeton University Press, 1975), pp. 73-119.
[39] "The Economics of Enclosure: A Market Analysis," in Jones and Parker, as cited, pp. 123-160.
[40] "English Open Fields as Behavior Towards Risk," Research in Economic History 1 (Fall 1976): 124-170.
[41] "Fenoaltea on Open Fields: A Comment," Explorations in Economic History 14 (Oct 1977): 402-404.
[42] "A Reply to Professor Charles Wilson," Journal of European Economic History 8 (Spring 1979): 203-207.
[43] "Another Way of Observing Open Fields: A Reply to A.R.H. Baker," Journal of Historical Geography 5 (Oct 1979): 427, 427-29.
[127] "Scattering in Open Fields: A Comment on Michael Mazur's Article," Journal of European Economic History 9 (Spring, 1980): 209-214.
[115] "Review of Popkin's The Rational Peasant and Macfarlane's The Origins of English Individualism," Journal of Political Economy, 89 (August 1981): 837-40 [reprinted in UCLA Writing Program {Ellen Strenski, ed., Cross-Disciplinary Conversations about Writing (NY: St. Martin's Press, 1989)].
[129] "Comment on Petras and Havens' 'Peasant Behavior and Social Change--Cooperatives and Individual Holdings.'" Pp. 226-231 in Clifford S. Russell and N.K. Nicholson, eds. Public Choice and Rural Development, Washington, D.C., 1981.
[44] "Theses on Enclosure," pp. 56-72 in Papers Presented to the Economic History Society Conference at Canterbury, 1983. Agricultural History Society.
[45] [with John Nash] "Corn at Interest: The Extent and Cost of Grain Storage in Medieval England," American Economic Review 74 (Mar 1984): 174-187.
[46] (a.) "Conditional Economic History: A Reply to Komlos and Landes," Economic History Review 44 (1, Feb 1991): 128-132.
[191] "Review of Turner's, English Enclosures,"Journal of Economic History 1982
[134] "Open Field System," brief entry in Eatwell, Milgate, and Newman, eds. The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Thought and Doctrine (Macmillan U.K., 1987).
[47] "The Open Fields of England: Rent, Risk, and the Rate of Interest, 1300-1815," in David W. Galenson, ed., Markets in History: Economic Studies of the Past (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 5-51.
[48] "The Prudent Peasant: New Findings on Open Fields." Journal of Economic History 51 (2, June 1991): 343-355.
[48a.] {"Allen's Enclosure and the Yeoman: The View from Tory Fundamentalism."}
{{Other draft chapters in a book, The Prudent Peasant}}
[101] "Review of Hohenberg's Economic History of Europe," Kyklos (Nov 1971): 147.
[102] "Review of Hawke's Railways and Economic Growth in England and Wales, 1840-1870," Economic History Review 24 (Aug 1971): 493-95
[103] "Review of Hughes' Industrialization and Economic History: Theses and Conjectures," Journal of Modern History 44 (Mar 1972): 97-8.
[106] "Review of Davis, Easterlin, Parker et al., American Economic Growth: An Economist's History of the United States," Journal of Economic History 32 (Dec 1972): 963-66.
[110] "Review of Williamson's Late Nineteenth-Century American Development," Times Literary Supplement (Dec 12, 1975):
[111] "Review of David's Technology and Nineteenth-Century Growth," Economic History Review 29 (May 1976): 340-42.
[112] "Review of Reed's Investment in Railways in Britain," American Historical Review 82 (Feb 1977): 102.
[114] "Review of Coleman's The Economy of England, 1450-1750," Journal of Economic Literature 16 (Mar, 1978): 108-110.
[50a] "The Industrial Revolution, 1780-1860: A Survey," Chapter 6 in Floud and McCloskey eds., The Economic History of Britain, 1700-Present (1981), Vol. 1, pp. 103-127, reprinted in J. Mokyr, ed. Economic History and the Industrial Revolution (Rowman and Littlefield, 1985).
[158] "Review of Rosenberg and Birdzell's How the West Grew Rich," New York Times Sunday Book Review, Feb 1986.
[162] "Beyond the Margin, review of Joel Mokyr's The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress." Reason 22 (10, Mar 1991): 56-57.
[163] "Review of Robert Reich's The Work of Nations." Chicago Tribune Book World, Mar 10, 1991, p. 3.
[50b] "The Industrial Revolution: A Survey," a new essay, in Floud and McCloskey, eds., The Economic History of Britain, 1700-Present, 2nd ed., 1994;
[50c{a shorter version, "Economists Have Not Explained the First Industrial Revolution"}
[211] "Once Upon a Time There was a Theory," Scientific American (Feb 1995): 25.
[245] "Squashing the Politically Correct in History (Review of David Landes, Wealth and Poverty of Nations)," Reason, June 1998.
[49] "New Perspectives on the Old Poor Law," Explorations in Economic History 10 (Summer 1973): 419-436.
"[107] Review of "Wrigley's (ed.), Nineteenth Century Society and Singer's and Small's The Wages of War, 1816-1965," Journal of the American Statistical Association (Mar, 1974):
[126] "A Mismeasurement of the Incidence of Taxation in Britain and France, 1715-1810," Journal of European Economic History 7 (1, Spring 1978): 209-10.
[128] "Comment on Hartwell's 'Taxation During the Industrial Revolution'," Cato Journal 1 (1, Spring 1981): 155-159.
[159] "Little Things Matter, review of Robert W. Fogel, Without Consent or Contract," Reason 22 (2, June 1990): 51-53.
[51] "The New Economic History: An Introduction," Revista Storica Italiana (Mar, 1971: 5-22; in Italian); and Revista Espanola de Economia (May-Aug 1971) in Spanish).
[124] "Introduction" to special issue of Explorations in Economic History 11 (Summer, 1974): 317-324.
[125] "The New Economic History in Britain" (in Italian), Quaderni Storici 31 (Dec 1976): 401-08.
[52] " Does the Past Have Useful Economics?" Journal of Economic Literature 14 (June 1976): 434-61. Translated into Russian for Thesis 1 (1, Spring 1993): 107-136. Reprinted in Diana Betts and Robert Whaples, eds. Readings in American Economic History, 1994.
[53] "The Achievements of the Cliometric School," Journal of Economic History 38 (1, Mar, 1978): 13-28.
[54] " The Problem of Audience in Historical Economics: Rhetorical Thoughts on a Text by Robert Fogel," History and Theory 24 (1, 1985): 1-22.
[117] "Review of Boland's The Foundations of Economic Method," Journal of Economic Literature 23 (June 1985): 618-19.
[ 55] [with Allan Megill] "The Rhetoric of History." Pp. 221-238 in Nelson, Megill, and McCloskey, eds. The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences (University of Wisconsin Press, 1987).
[56] "Counterfactuals," article in Eatwell, Milgate, and Newman, eds. The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Thought and Doctrine (Macmillan, 1987).
[57] " Continuity in Economic History," article in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Thought and Doctrine (Macmillan, 1987), pp. 623-626.
[58] "The Storied Character of Economics," Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 101 (4, 1988): 543-654.
[59] "Reply to Professor Klein." same 102 (1989): 66-67.
[60] "History, Differential Equations, and the Problem of Narration," History and Theory 30 (1, 1991): 21-36.
[61] "Ancients and Moderns" [presidential address, Social Science History Association, Washington, D.C., 1989]. Social Science History, 14 (3, Jan 1991): 289-303.
[146] "Introduction" to McCloskey and Hersh, eds. A Bibliography of Historical Economics to 1980, Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. ix-xii.
[62] "Kinks, Tools, Spurts, and Substitutes: Gerschenkron's Rhetoric of Relative Backwardness," Chapter 6 in Richard Sylla and Gianni Toniolo, eds. Patterns of European Industrialization: The Nineteenth Century (London: Routledge, 1991).
[154] "Looking Forward into History." Introduction (pp. 3-10) to McCloskey, ed., Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of U.S. Economic History (Oxford, 1992).
[92] "The Economics of Choice: Neoclassical Supply and Demand." in Thomas Rawski, ed., Economics and the Historian (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995): 122-158
[192] "1066 and a Wave of Gadgets: The Achievements of British Growth," in Penelope Gouk, ed., Wellsprings of Achievement: Cultural and Economic Dynamics in Early Modern England and Japan (Variorum, 1995).
[187] [with Santhi Hejeebu] "The Reproving of Karl Polanyi," forthcoming 2001 Critical Review, 30 pp.
[63] "The Rhetoric of Economics," Journal of Economic Literature 31 (June 1983): 482-517; reprinted in B. J. Caldwell, ed., Appraisal and Criticism in Economics (Allen and Unwin, 1985); translated into Japanese, Contemporary Economics 61 (Spring 1985), pp. 156-184.
[64] (a.) "Reply to Caldwell and Coats," Journal of Economic Literature 22 (June 1984): 579-80.
[65] (b.) "Sartorial Epistemology in Tatters: A Reply to Martin Hollis," Economics and Philosophy 1 (Apr 1985): 134-137.
[ See also Replies to Reviews of The Rhetoric of Economics, below]
[66] "The Character of Argument in Modern Economics: How Muth Persuades," in Proceeding of the Third Summer Conference on Argumentation, sponsored by the Speech Communication Association and the American Forensic Association, Annandale, Va., Fall 1983, revised for The Rhetoric of Economics.
[67] "The Literary Character of Economics," Daedalus 113 (3, Summer 1984): 97-119.
[130] "A Conversation with McCloskey About Rhetoric" Eastern Economic Journal, (Oct-Dec 1985): 293-296.
[131] "The Rhetoric of Economics," Social Science 71 (2/3, Fall 1986): 97-102 (prepared by Frank Moore from a talk at the Institute in Social Science, University of North Carolina, Jan 1986).
[133] "Economics as a Historical Science." Pp. 63-69 in William Parker, ed. Economic History and the Modern Economist (NY: Basil Blackball, 1986; Italian translation, 1988, Liters Editore).
[135] "Rhetoric," in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Thought and Doctrine (Macmillan, 1987).
[140] "The Rhetoric of Economic Development: Rethinking Development Economics," Cato Journal 7 (Spring/Summer 1987): 249-54; reprinted with minor revisions in James Dorn and A. A. Walters, eds. The Revolution in Development Economics, 1993.
[70] "Towards a Rhetoric of Economics," pp. 13-29 in G.C. Winston and R.F. Teichgraeber III, eds., The Boundaries of Economics, Murphy Institute Studies in Political Economy. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
[72] "Thick and Thin Methodologies in the History of Economic Thought." Pp. 245-257 in Neil de Mari, ed., The Popperian Legacy in Economics (Cambridge University Press, 1988).
[73] [with Arjo Klamer] "Economics in the Human Conversation," pp. 3-20 in Klamer, McCloskey, and Solow, eds., The Consequences of Rhetoric (Cambridge University Press, 1988).
[74] "The Consequences of Rhetoric," pp. 280-294 in Klamer, et al. eds., The Consequences of Rhetoric, Cambridge University Press, 1988 [reprinted in Fundamenta Scientiae 9 (2/3, 1988): 269-284 (a Brazilian journal)].
[145] "Their Blackboard, Right or Wrong: A Comment on Contested Exchange." Politics and Society 18 (2, June 1990): 223-232.
[78] "Storytelling in Economics." Pp. 5-22 in Christopher Nash and Martin Warner, eds., Narrative in Culture (Routledge 1990); and pp. 61-75 in Don C. Lavoie, ed. Economics and Hermeneutics (Routledge 1990). An earlier version, with discussion, appeared in Orace Johnson, ed. Methodology and Accounting Research: Does the Past Have a Future (Proceedings of the 8th Annual Big Ten Accounting Doctoral Consortium, May, 1987: 69-76).
[214] "Telling Stories Economically," The Ludwig von Mises Lecture Series: Economic Education: 22: 83-107.
[79] "Formalism in Economics, Rhetorically Speaking," Ricerche Economiche 43 (1989), 1-2 (Jan-June): 57-75. Reprinted with minor revisions in American Sociologist 21 (1, Spring, 1990): 3-19.
[80a] "Reply to Peter Mueser," American Sociologist 21 (1, Spring 1990): 26-28.
[80] [with Arjo Klamer] "The Rhetoric of Disagreement," Rethinking Marxism 2 (Fall 1989): 140-161. Reprinted in D.H. Prychitko, ed. Why Economists Disagree, Albany: SUNY Press, 1998.
[84] [with Arjo Klamer] "Accounting as the Master Metaphor of Economics," European Accounting Review 1 (1, May, 1992): 145-160.
[86] "Agon and Ag Ec: Styles of Persuasion in Agricultural Economics," American Journal of Agricultural Economics 72 (Dec 1990): 1124-1130.
[87] "The Rhetoric of Economic Expertise." Pp. 137-147 in Richard H. Roberts and J. M. M. Good, eds., The Recovery of Rhetoric: Persuasive Discourse and Disciplinarity in the Human Sciences. 1993. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1993. In French as "La rhétorique de l'expertise économique" in Vincent de Coorebyter, ed., Rhétorique de la Science Paris: Presse Universitaires de France, in the series "L'interrogation philosophique," M. Meyer, ed., pp 171-188.
[89] "Mere Style in Economics, 1920 to the Present," Economic Notes 20 (1, 1991): 135-148.
[90] "Economic Science: A Search Through the Hyperspace of Assumptions?" Methodus 3 (1, June 1991): 6-16.
[164] "The Arrogance of Economic Theorists" [Die Arroganz der Wirtschaftstheorie: Okonomische Rechenkunste im Zwielicht], Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 31 August/ 1 Sept 1991, p. 85, in the series Themen und Thesen der Wirtschaft, reprinted (in English) in Swiss Review of World Affairs 41 (no. 7, Oct 1991): 11-12.
[165] "Les Métaphores de la Science Economique." Le Monde, Apr 28, 1992, p. 39.
[138c] "The Rhetoric of Finance," for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance, 1992: 350-352.
[122e] "Review of de Marchi and Blaug, eds., Appraising Economic Theories." Journal of Economic Literature 31 (1, Mar 1993): 229-231.
[122c] "Review of Samuels, ed. Economics as Discourse." Journal of Economic History 53 (1, Mar 1993): 204-206
[185] "Review of Rosenberg's Economics: Mathematical Politics?" Isis 84 (4, Dec 1993): 838-39.
[182] "How to Do a Rhetorical Analysis of Economics, and Why," in Roger Backhouse, ed., Economic Methodology. London: Routledge, 1994: 319-342.
[172] "Economics and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge," in Robert Goodman and Walter Fisher, eds., Rethinking Knowledge: Reflections Across the Disciplines (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995).
[203] "Fun in Econ 101, review of John Kenneth Galbraith's A Journey Through Economic Time: A Firsthand View," Chicago Tribune Book World, Sept 25, 1994, Sec. 14, p. 4.
[206] "One Quarter of GDP is Persuasion," [with Arjo Klamer] The American Economic Review 85, (2, May 1995): 191-195.
[207] "How Economists Persuade," Journal of Economic Methodology 1 (1, June 1994): 15-32.
[193] "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, comment on Sandra Harding's 'Can Feminist Thought Make Economics More Objective?'," Feminist Economics 1 (3, Fall 1995): 119-124.
[194] "Metaphors Economists Live By," Social Research 62 (2, Summer 1995): 215-237.
{Drafted Summer 1996: "The Demoralization of Economics; 1776-1848: Can We Recover from Bentham?"}
[243] "Simulating Barbara," Feminist Economics 4 (3, Fall, 1998): 181-186.
[244] "Ask What the Boys in the Sandpit Will Have," (London) Times Higher Education Supplement, 1996.
"[218] The Genealogy of Postmodernism: An Economist's Guide." Forthcoming, Steven Cullenberg, ed. Postmodernism and Economics, NY and London: Routledge, 2000.
[93] "The Two Cultures and Methodology [A Reply to Mark Blaug]," Critical Review 1 (3, Summer 1987): 124-127.
[94] "Responses to My Critics: A Mild Response to William Butos; An Agreeable Reply to A.W. Coats; A Disagreeable Reply to Steven Pressman," Eastern Economic Journal 13 (July-Sept 1987): 308-311.
[95] "Two Replies and a Dialogue on the Rhetoric of Economics" [: Rosenberg, Rappaport, and Mäki] Economics and Philosophy 4 (1988): 150-166.
[96] "Rhetoric as Morally Radical: Reply to Klamer, Stewart, and Gleicher," Review of Radical Political Economy 19 (3): 87-91. Translated into Spanish, Estudios Economicos [El Colegio de Mexico].
[97] "Splenetic Rationalism: Hoppe's Review of Chapter 1 of The Rhetoric of Economics." Market Process 7 (1) (Spring 1989): 34-41, reprinted in Peter J. Boettke and David L. Prychitdo, eds. The Market Process: Essays on Contemporary Austrian Economics (Edward Elgar, 1994) pp. 187-200.
[98] "Commentary [on Rossetti and Mirowski]." Pp. 261-271 in Neil de Mari, ed. Post-Popperian Methodology of Economics. Recovering Practice. Boston: Kluwer, 1992.
[99] "Reply to Munz," Journal of the History of Ideas 51 (1, Jan/Mar 1990): 143-147.
[99a] "Modern Epistemology Against Analytic Philosphy: A Reply to Mäki," Journal of Economic Literature 33 (Sept, 1995): 1319-1323.
[217] "Review of Mirowski's Natural Images in Economic Thought: 'Markets Read in Tooth and Claw'," Isis, 1996.
[71] [with Allan Megill and John Nelson] "Rhetoric of Inquiry." Pp. 3-18 in Nelson, Megill, and McCloskey, eds. The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences (University of Wisconsin Press, 1987).
[76] "The Limits of Expertise: If You're So Smart, Why Ain't You Rich?" The American Scholar 57 (3) (Summer 1988): 393-406. Reprinted as pp. 92-111 in J. Lee Auspitz, W. W. Gasparski, M. K. Mlicki, and K. Szaniawski, eds. Praxiologies and the Philosophy of Economics. Spanish translation as "Si de verdad eras tan listo . . . (I)" in Revista de Occidente 83 (Apr 1988): 71-86. Reprinted in B. J. Caldwell, ed. The Philosophy and Methodology of Economics, Vol. II (Edward Elgar: 1993).
[204] "An Economic Uncertainty Principle," Scientific American (Nov 1994): 107.
[216] "Computation Outstrips Analysis," Scientific American (July 1995): 26.
[142] "The Very Idea of Epistemology: A Comment on Hausman and McPherson's 'Standards'" Economics and Philosophy 5 (Spring 1989): 1-6.
[75] "The Dismal Science and Mr. Burke: Economics as a Critical Theory," pp. 99-114 in H. W. Simons and T. Melia, eds. The Legacy of Kennneth Burke (Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989).
[81] "Why I Am No Longer a Positivist." Review of Social Economy 47 (3, Fall, 1989): 225-238.
[158a] "Review of Wayne Booth The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction," Chicago Tribune Book World, Dec 25, 1988, Sec. 14, p. 5.
[ 161] "Review of Allan Bloom's Giants and Dwarfs: Essays, 1960-1990," Chicago Tribune Book World, Oct 1990.
[82] "Keeping the Company of Sophisters, Economists, and Calculators," in Fred Antczak, ed., Keeping Company: Rhetoric, Pluralism and Wayne Booth. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1994).
[148] "Forward" to Robert H. Nelson, Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics. Savage, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1991, pp. xi-xvii.
[83] "Voodoo Economics," Poetics Today 12 (2, Summer 1991): 287-300.
[92a] "Platonic Insults: 'Rhetorical'." Common Knowledge 2 (2, Fall 1993): 23-32.
[198] "The Unquashed Masses, review of John Carey, The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939,"Reason, 26 (3, July 1994): 60-61.
[219] "Big Rhetoric, Little Rhetoric: Gaonkar on the Rhetoric of Science," in Alan G. Gross and William M. Keith, ed., Rhetorical Hermeneutics, Invention and Interpretation in the Age of Science, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997): pp 101-112.
[233] "Exchange of Letters on The Consequences of Pragmatism," Times Literary Supplement, August 26, 1983.
{[234] "You Shouldn't Want a Realism if You Have a Rhetoric," Paper for Rotterdam Conference on Realism, Nov 1997, 26 pp.}
[68] "The Loss Function Has Been Mislaid: The Rhetoric of Significance Tests," American Economic Review, Supplement 75 (2, May 1985): 201-205.
[132] "Why Economic Historians Should Stop Relying on Statistical Tests of Significance, and Lead Economists and Historians into the Promised Land," Newsletter of the Cliometric Society. 2 (2, Nov 1986): 5-7.
[141] "Rhetoric Within the Citadel: Statistics," pp. 485-490 in J.W. Wenzel at al., eds., Argument and Critical Practice: Proceedings of the Fifth SCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation (Annandale, Va.: Speech Communication Association, 1987); reprinted in C. A. Willard and G. T. Goodnight, eds., Public Argument and Scientific Understanding (1993).
[156,2] "The Bankruptcy of Statistical Significance," Eastern Economic Journal 18 (Summer 1992): 359-361 (also in Other Brief Academic Items, [156] (2) below).
[88] "The Art of Forecasting, Ancient to Modern Times," Cato Journal 12 (1, Spring/Summer 1992): 23-43.
[213] "The Insignificance of Statistical Significance," Scientific American (Apr 1995): 32-33.
[184] [with Stephen Ziliak] "The Standard Error of Regression." Journal of Economic Literature, Mar 1996: pp. 97-114.
[239] "Aunt Deirdre's Letter to a Graduate Student" Eastern Economic Journal 23 (2, Spring 1997): 241-244.
"Cassandra's Open Letter to Her Economist Colleagues" Eastern Economic Journal 25 (3, Summer 1999):
[239] "Two Vices: Proof and Significance," unplublished paper presented at the AEA session in Chicago, Jan 3, 1998.
"Beyond Merely Statistical Significance." Statement of editorial policy, Feminist Economics, forthcoming, 2000.""
[69] "Economical Writing," Economic Inquiry 24(2) (Apr 1985): 187-222 [reprinted in UCLA Writing Program {Ellen Strenski, ed.}, Cross-Disciplinary Conversations about Writing (NY: St. Martin's Press, 1989)]; reprinted with revisions as The Writing of Economics (in second ed., Economical Writing, 1999).
[69a] a.) "Reply to Jack High", Economic Inquiry.
[69b] b.) "Writing as a Responsibility of Science: A Reply to Laband and Taylor," Economic Inquiry 30 (Oct 1992): 689-695.
[197] "Duty and Creativity in Economic Scholarship," in Michael Szenberg, ed., Passion and Craft: Economists at Work, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
[139] "The Rhetoric, Economics, and Economic History of Michelman's 'Republican Tradition: A Commentary'," Iowa Law Review 72 (5, July 1987): 1351-1353.
[77] "The Rhetoric of Law and Economics," Michigan Law Review 86 (4, Feb 1988): 752-767.
[85] [with John Nelson] "The Rhetoric of Political Economy," pp. 155-174 (Chapter 8) in James H. Nichols, Jr. and Colin Wright, eds. Political Economy to Economics--And Back? (San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies Press, 1990).
[122a] "The Essential Rhetoric of Law, Literature, and Liberty" [review of Posner's Law as Literature, Fish's Doing What Comes Naturally and White's Justice as Translation], Critical Review 5 (1, Spring 1991): 203-223.
[122b] "Minimal Statism and Metamodernism: A Reply to Jeffrey Friedman," Critical Review 6 (1, Dec 1992): 107-112.
[92b] "The Lawyerly Rhetoric of Coase's 'The Nature of the Firm'" Journal of Corporation Law 18 (2, Winter 1993): 424-439.
[210] "The Good Old Coase Theorem and the Good Old Chicago School: Comment on the Medema-Zerbe Paper," Coasean Economics: The New Institutional Economics and Law and Economics, (Steven G. Medema, Ed.) Boston: Kluwer Publishing, 1997, pp. 239-248.
[173] "The Rhetoric of Liberty," Rhetoric Society Quarterly 1(11, 1995): pp. 9-27.
[221] "Review of Gaskins on Law and Rhetoric," Social Services Review 70 (3, Sept 1996): 482-489.
"[235] "Happy Endings: Law, Gender, and the University," Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 2 (1, Fall, 1998): 77-85. Also in (19.) Gender.
[108] "9th Edition of Samuelson's Economics," Challenge 16 (Sept/Oct 1973): 65-66.
[149] [with John Siegfried, Robin Bartlett, W. Lee Hansen, Allen Kelley, and Thomas Tietenberg] "The Status and Prospects of the Economics Major," Journal of Economic Education 22 (3, Summer 1991): 197-224.
[150] [with John Siegfried, W. Lee Hansen, Robin Bartlett, Allen Kelley, and Thomas Tietenberg] "The Economics Major: Can and Should We Do Better than a B-?" American Economic Review 81 (2, May 1991): 20-25.
[151] "Why Economics is Tough for Ten-Year-Olds," Social Studies Review (American Textbook Council) 10 (Fall 1991): 8-11.
[205] "Contribution to Special Book Section on books to recommend to undergraduate economics Students," Reason 26 (7, Dec, 1994): 42.
[143] "The Theatre of Scholarship and the Rhetoric of Economics," Southern Humanities Review 22 (Summer, 1988): 241-249.
[144] "The Poverty of Letters: The Crushing Case Against Outside Letters for Promotion," Change, 20 (5, Sept 1988), pp. 7-9.
[153] "The Invisible Colleges and Economics: An Unacknowledged Crisis in Academic Life," Change 23 (6, Nov/Dec 1991): 10-11, 54.
[165a] "A Small College Aura for Large Institutions," Chronicle of Higher Education 38 (5, Sept 25, 1991): p. B3.
[122f] "Review of Bowen and Rudenstine's In Pursuit of the PhD: A Review Article." Change 26 (1, Jan/Feb 1994) and Economics of Education Review 4 (1993): pp. 359-365.
[122g] "The Public Research University in the Next Century: The Role of the Department of Communication," Planning, 1996.
[159a] "Review of Robert Skidelsky's John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed, 1883-1920," Washington Post Book World, May 25, 1986.
[136] "Earl Hamilton," in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Thought and Doctrine (Macmillan, 1987).
[137] "Charles P. Kindleberger," in The New Palgrave, 1987.
[147] "Robert William Fogel: An Appreciation by an Adopted Student," pp. 14-25 in Claudia Goldin and Hugh Rockoff, eds, Strategic Factors in Nineteenth-Century American Economic History: A Volume to Honor Robert W. Fogel. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
[152] "Alexander Gerschenkron: By a Student," The American Scholar 61 (2, Spring, 1992): 241-246.
[122d] "Review of James Buchanan's Better Than Plowing." Constitutional Political Economy, 1993.
[185a] "Fogel and North: Statics and Dynamics in Historical Economics," Scandinavian Journal of Economics (2, 1994): .
[185b] "The Persuasive Life, review of Hayek on Hayek, edited by Stephen Kresge and Leif Wener," Reason, 26 (4, August/Sept, 1994): 67-70.
[248] "Chicago School of Economics," Encyclopedia of Chicago History, Spring 1999.
[118] "[A Post-Modern Rhetoric of Sociology: ] Review of D.W. Fiske and R. A. Shweder's Metatheory in Social Science," Contemporary Sociology 15 (6, Nov 1986):
[119] "Review of Michael Mulkay's The Word and the World: Explorations in the Form of Sociological Analysis," American Journal of Sociology 93 (Sept 1987): 467-69.
[120] "A Strong Programme in the Rhetoric of Science" [H.M. Collins, Changing Order: Replication and Induction in Scientific Research], Journal of Economic Psychology (1986): 128-133.
[186] "Review of M. C. LaFollete's Stealing into Print," Journal of Economic Literature, 32 (Sept, 1994): 1226-29.
[177] "Bourgeois Virtue," American Scholar 63 (2, Spring 1994): 177-191. Reprinted in Occasional Papers of the Centre for Independent Studies, New South Wales (short version reprinted in the Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter, Fall 1994).
[167b] "Bourgeois Blues," Reason 25 (1, May 1993): 47-51.
[208] "Bourgeois Virtue," 1000 words, pp. 44-46 in Patricia Werhane and E.R. Freeman, eds. Blackwell Encyelopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics, Blackwell: Maldon, MA and London, 1997.
[209] "Procedural Justice," 500 words, pp. 509-510, for Blackwell Encyelopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics
[212] "Breakthrough Books: The Market," Lingua Franca, July/August 1995.
[222]{"Eighteenth-Century Virtues: Smith and Franklin." Presented to conference in Australia, summer 1996}
[229] "Missing Ethics in Economics." Pp. 187-201 in Arjo Klamer, ed. The Value of Culture on the Relationships Between Economics and Arts. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1996.
[237] "Theses on the Demoralization of Economics, 1760-1848," presented to Antwerp meetings of the European Society for Socio-Economics, Nov 1996.
[240] "Bourgeois Virtue and the History of P and S," Presidential Address, presented at the Economic History Association, New Brunswick, NJ, Sept 1997 and The Journal of Economic History , 58 (2, June 1998).
[247] "What if, Economically, We Followed Jesus?" presented to the Adult Forum, Trinity Episcopal Church, Iowa City, Iowa, Mar 14, 1999.}
"Christian Economics?" Eastern Economic Journal 25 (4, Fall 1999): 477-480.
"Avarice, Prudence, and the Bourgeois Virtues." Unpublished paper for a conference in Property, Possession, and the Theology og Culture, Heidelberg, Germany, April 7-9, 2000, forthcoming in a conference volume, William Shweiker and Charles Matthewes, eds.
[91] "Some Consequences of a Conjective Economics." Pp. 69-93 in Julie Nelson and Marianne Ferber, eds., Beyond Economic Man: Feminism and Economics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
[178] {"'What Did You Say? A Postmodern Feminism of Economics."}
[156: 13]"Some News That At Least Will Not Bore You," Eastern Economic Journal 21 (4, Fall 1995): 551-553; reprinted in Lingua Franca, early spring 1996; shortened version in Harpers, July 1996.
[193] "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, comment on Sandra Hardings Can Feminist Thought Make Economics More Objective?," Feminist Economics 1 (3, Fall 1995): 119-124. (Also in part (8.) above).
[223]"Love and Money: A Comment on the Markets Debate," Feminist Economics 2 (2, Summer 1996): 137-140.
[227]"Femmes Fiscales," Times Higher Education Supplement, May 31, 1996.
[224]"Its Good to be a Don if Youre Going to be a Deirdre," Times Higher Education Supplement, August 23, 1996, 1 page.
[230] {"May Days: Part of a Polylogue on Feminist Economics," A conversation on the FEMECON-L net, June 1994.}
[231] "Transformation," Iowa Alumni Quarterly, Summer 1997, p. 49.
[243] "Simulating Barbara," Feminist Economics 4 (3, Fall, 1998): 181-186. (Also in part (8.) above).
"Becoming Stories." Pp. 112-117 in Linda Roodenburg, eds., Photowork(s) in Progress/Constructing Identity. Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1997. (Dutch section, pp. 118-123).
"Caring for Gender: Sister, Psychiatrists, and Gender Crossing," forthcoming in a volume on gender crossing, published by Cleis Press.
[235] "Happy Endings: Law, Gender, and the University," Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 2 (1, Fall, 1998): 77-85. Also in (13.) The Rhetoric of Law.
Excerpts from Crossing: A Memoir (1999): Reason magazine, Dec 1999; Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, Jan 30, 2000.
"Slate Diary, Nov 29, 1999-Dec 3, 1999" [invited week of five diary entries, focusing on gender], slate.com.
{"Post-Modern Free-Market Feminism: A Conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak." Forthcoming, Rethinking Marxism, 2000.}
{"Crossing Economics." The International Journal of Transgenderism, forthcoming 2000.
[195] "Review of Stratton and Brown's Agricultural Records in Britain," Journal of Economic History, c. 1978: 189.
[138a] "Fungibility," in The New Palgrave, 1987; reprinted New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance (Macmillan U.K.; Stockton), 1992.
[138b] "Gresham's Law," for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance, 1992.
[157] "Reading the Economy." Humane Studies Review, 70 (2, Spring 1992): pp. 1, 10-13.
[156] "Other Things Equal" (Columns in the Eastern Economic Journal):
(1.) "The Natural" 18 (2, Spring 1992): 237-239.
(2.) "The Bankruptcy of Statistical Significance" 18 (3, Summer 1992): 359-361.
(3.) "Schelling's Five Truths of Economics" 19 (1, Winter 1993): 109-112.
(4.) "The A-Prime, C-Prime Theorem" 19 (2, Fall 1993): 235-238.
(5.) "Reading Ive Liked" 19 (3, Summer 1994): 395-399.
(6.) "Economics: Art or Science or Who Cares?" 20 (1, Winter 1994): 117-120.
(7.) "How to Organize a Conference," 20 (2, Spring 1994): 221-224.
(8.) "Why Dont Economists Believe Empirical Findings?" 20 (3, Summer 1994): 357-350
(9.) "To Burn Always with a Hard, Gemlike Flame, Eh Professor?" 20 (4, Fall 1994): 479-481
(10.) "Hes Smart, and Hes a Nice Guy Too," 21 (1, Winter 1995): 109-112.
(11.) "How to Host a Seminar Visitor," 21 (2, Spring 1995): 271-274.
(12.) "Kelly Green Golf Shoes and the Intellectual Range from M to N," 21 (3, Summer 1995): 411-414.
(13.) "Some News That At Least Will Not Bore You," 21 (4, Fall 1995): 551-553.
(14.) "Love or Money" 22 (1, Winter 1996): 97-100.
(15.) "Keynes Was a Sophist, and a Good Thing, Too" 22 (2, Spring 1996)
(16.) "Economic Tourism" 22 (3, Summer 1996)
(17.) "One Small Step for Gary" 23 (1, Winter 1997): 113-116.
(18.) "Aunt Deirdres Letter to a Graduate Student" 23 (2, Spring 1997): 241-244.
(19.) "The Rhetoric of Economics Revisited" 23 (3, Summer 1997): 359-362.
(20.) "Polanyi Was Right, and Wrong" 23 (4, Fall 1997): 483-487.
(21.) "Quarreling with Ken" 24 (1, Winter 1998): 111-115.
(22.) "Small Worlds, or, the Preposterousness of Closed Economy Macro" 24 (2, Spring 1998): 229-232.
(23.) "The So-Called Coase Theorem" 24 (3, Summer 1998): 367-371.
(24.) "Career Courage" 24 (4, Fall 1998): 525-528.
(25.) "Learning to Love Globalization" 25 (1, Winter 1999): 117-121.
(26.) "Economical Writing: An Executive Summary" 25 (2, Spring 1999): .
(27.) "Cassandras Open Letter to Her Economist Colleagues" 25 (3, Summer 1999): .
(28.) "Christian Economics?" 25 (4, Fall 1999):
(29.) "Alan Greenspan Has No Influence on Interest Rates," forthcoming, 26 (1, Winter 2000):
(30.) {"How to Be Scientific in Economics," forthcoming 26 (2, Spring, 2000): .}
[160b] "Review of Herbert Stein's Washington Bedtime Stories: The Politics of Money and Jobs," Washington Post Book World, Nov 30, 1986. Reprinted in Washington Post Weekly, Manchester Guardian Weekly.
[157a] "Poland is Delicate Mix of Freedom, Fear," Des Moines Register, Oct 10, 1988.
[166] "The Circus of Politics." Liberty Tree 6 (1; May 1992), pp. 1, 3-5.
[167] "Three Books the New President Should Read." Reason, Dec. 1992.
"Overgeinzingen Deirdre McCloskey bij afschied" Quod Novum, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Nummer 19, Jaargang 30-22 Januari 1997, English text, one page.
[169] {"Returning the Favor: What Economists Can Learn from the Law."}
[183] {{"Seeing is Believing: The Philosophical Significance of the Infinitive and Participle of Indirect Speech In Plato."}}
[???] [with Stephen Ziliak] {{"The Misuse of Statistical Significance: Any Change in the 1990s?"}}
{{Bourgeois Virtue: Ethics for an Age of Capitalism}} (Including some items listed in part 18 above.)
The story is of the rise of a prudential rhetoric in the Netherlands and England in the 17th century, its triumph in the Scottish Enlightenment and American colonial thought in the 18th century, and its decline after 1848 from, as Shaw once called it, the Great Conversion. An ethics of the virtues, as old as Aristotle and as new as feminist ethics, provides a way out of the growing self-hatred of the bourgeoisie. "Bourgeois virtue" is not a contradiction in terms. Economists are recognizing that virtue underlies a market economy; economic historians have long understood so in the lives of Quakers and the vital few. What the social sciences have not recognized since the 18th century and its notion of doux commerce is that a market economy can underlie the virtues. Not all virtues. Some virtues--in fact the ones we celebrate in philosophy and myth--are pagan or Christian, aristocratic and plebeian. We need new philosophies and myths, new readings of the ancient virtues, to suit a world in which we are all now bourgeois.
[edited with an introduction by by Stephen Ziliak] {Measurement and Meaning in Economics: The Essential Deirdre McCloskey} Brighton: Elgar. Economists of the Twentieth Century Series. Forthcoming October, 2000.
A collection of the best articles by McCloskey in economic history and economic criticism, 1970-present.
[edited with Mary Beth Combs] {{Reading the Economy: An Anthology of Literary Works in English from Chaucer to Maya Angelou}}
Designed for the bedtable of the bourgeois(e) bleared with trade, and for the growing number of courses in English and Economics nationwide, the anthology selects poetry, short stories, plays, literary essays, and chapters of novels re-presenting the economy: Frost's "Two Tramps at Mudtime," for example, or Gaskell on British industrialization, or Miller's "Death of a Salesman." It teaches economic ways of thinking to literary people and opens the literary world to economists and calculators.
{{Oomph! And How Some Sciences Lost It}}
The sciences, or subfields within each science, divide into those which have kept a focus on How Big and those which have not. No geomorphologist, for example, would rest satisfied that "there exists" an effect of rainfall on the height of the land: she wants quantitative estimates of the rate of mechanical denudation in millimeters per century. No physicist is much interested in the "statistical significance" at conventional levels between exact IA calculations as against pole approximations of the electromagnetic form factor at high values of four-momentum transfer squared: he wants to see the quantitative difference in a simulation and argue that it matters for the science. No historian would be comfortable with a claim that German migration to the United States "was a factor" in the election of 1860: she would want to know how much. What matters to science is oomph, every time. Unhappily, in many fields of science the matter of How Much has been lost, commonly by a confusion between actual scientific measurement on the one hand and philosophical absolutes on the other. One counterexample to Goldbach's Conjecture (that every even number can be expressed as the sum of two primes: 20 = 13 + 7) would suffice to kill it for good in the Department of Mathematics. Yet it would still go on being useful to engineers devising computer locks, since no counterexample has been found for numbers up into the billions. Existence, arbitrary statistical significance, philosophical possibilities uncalibrated to the sizes of important effects in the world are useless for science. Yet in medical science, in population biology, in much of sociology, political science, psychology, and economics, in parts of literary study, there reigns the spirit of the Mathematics or Philosophy Departments (appropriate in their own fields of absolutes). The result has been a catastrophe for such sciences, or former sciences. The solution is simple: get back to seeking oomph. It would be wrong, of course, to abandon math or statistics. But they need every time to be put into a context of How Much, as they are in chemistry, in most biology, in history, and in engineering science.