<DIV>Culture manifests itself in everything human, including the ordinary business of everyday life. Culture and art have their own value, but economic values are also constrained. Art sponsorships and subsidies suggest a value that exceeds market price. So what is the real value of culture? Unlike...</div>

<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>