<DIV>In this witty, accessible, and revealing book, Deirdre McCloskey demystifies economic theory and practice to show that behind the economist's claim to certainty is the ancient art of storytelling. <I>If You're So Smart</I> will engage, enlighten, and empower anyone trying to evaluate the experts who...</i></div>

<DIV>We have read the stories of those who have "crossed" lines of race and class and culture. But few have written of crossing—completely and entirely—the gender line. <I>Crossing</I> is the story of Deirdre McCloskey (formerly Donald), once a golden boy of conservative economics and a child of 1950s...</i></div>

<DIV><P>The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an explosion in economic growth and proof that...</p></div>

<DIV>In this witty, accessible, and revealing book, Deirdre McCloskey demystifies economic theory and practice to show that behind the economists claim to certainty is the ancient art of  storytelling. <I>If You're So Smart</I> will engage, enlighten, and empower anyone trying to evaluate the experts who...</i></div>

<DIV>For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken’s “booboisie” and David Brooks’s...</div>