Introduction The Argument in Brief -- Economics Is in Scientific Trouble -- An Antique, Unethical, and Badly Measured Behaviorism Doesn't Yield Good Economic Science or Good Politics -- Economics Needs to Get Serious about Measuring the Economy -- The Number of Unmeasured "Imperfections" Is...

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...