This essential book collects together, for the first time, the writings of Deirdre McCloskey on economic history and the rhetoric of economics. The essays have been presented to show McCloskey’s evolution over time: from economist to critic, positivist to postmodernist, conventional economist...

Over the past decade randomized field experiments have gained prominence in the toolkit of empirical economics and policy making. In an article titled "Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, the Present, and the Future," Levitt and List (2009) make three main claims about the history,...