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...

For more than a century, the economics profession has extended its reach to encompass policy formation and institutional design while largely ignoring the ethical challenges that attend the profession's influence over the lives of others. Economists have proved to be disinterested in ethics,...