Boldizzoni's attack on cliometrics is unpersuasive, in part because he does not grasp economics and its uses, in part because he admires uncritically the German Historical School and their modern descendants, the French Annalistes. Much is to be learned from the earlier schools, but not by...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. The Proposal -- Chapter 1. Humanomics and Liberty Promise Better Economic Science -- Chapter 2. Adam Smith Practiced Humanomics, and So Should We -- Chapter 3. Economic History Illustrates the Problems with Nonhumanomics -- Chapter 4. An Economic Science...

"In Bettering Humanomics: A New and Old Approach to Economic Science, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey offers a critique of contemporary economics and a proposal for a better humanomics. McCloskey argues for an economic science that accepts the models and mathematics, the statistics and experiments of...