Books by Deirdre N. McCloskey

This revised second edition demonstrates how economic discourse employs metaphor, authority, symmetry and other rhetorical means of persuasion. It shows economists to be human persuaders and poets of the marketplace, even in their most technical and mathematical moods.

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. This book discusses seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe to reconsider the birth of the Industrial Revolution.