The search for an equilibrium between individual and social calculation encapsulates Keynes's economic and social programme - a far-reaching vision to be implemented not on the macroeconomic level only, but by rethinking the laissez-faire creed as a whole. Accordingly, Keynes’s fundamental aim...

In writing about the "rhetoric of economics" - particularly about the standards which prevent situations where "anything goes" in argument - McCloskey takes an eclectic approach to two philosophical positions, based on Rorty and Habermas respectively. But these positions, despite sharing some...