"McCloskey and Ziliak have been pushing this very elementary, very correct, very important argument through several articles over several years and for reasons I cannot fathom it is still resisted. If it takes a book to get it across, I hope this book will do it. It ought to." -- Thomas...

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...

In an article titled "Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, the Present, and the Future," Levitt and List (2009) make three important claims about the history, philosophy, and future of field experiments in economics. They claim that field experiments in economics began in the 1920s and...

Books reviewed: Culture and the Labour Market, by Siobhan Austin, Boyd Black, author Stochastic Frontier Analysis, by Knox Lovell and Subal Kumbhakar, Tim Coelli, author Selected Essays on Economic Police, by Geoff Harcourt, Peter B. Dixon, author The Economics and Ideology of Free Trade: A...