Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is a contributing editor at Reason. She is emerita professor of economics, history, English, and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author most recently of Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All (Yale).
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Don't Trade Stock Tips or Obsess About the Fed, Read Moby Dick Instead
You need to be inoculated from some strange but popular notions about the economy.
Quit Worrying and Learn To Love Trade With China
Fretting over deficits and intellectual property will do no good and much harm.
Slavery Did Not Make America Rich
Ingenuity, not capital accumulation or exploitation, made cotton a little king.
Max Weber Was Wrong
That his book is "great" does not mean it is correct, or is to be taken as good history or good economics or good theology.
The Myth of Technological Unemployment
If the nightmare of technological unemployment were true, it would already have happened, repeatedly and massively.
Libertarian History/Philosophy
Libertarianism, Yes! But *What Kind* of Libertarianism?
Virtue vs. Libertinism or, a Reason debate on liberty, license, coercion, and responsibility.
What Would You Do to Improve Job Growth?
Reason asks economists, writers, and wonks for real ways to increase job growth
Creative Destruction vs. the New Industrial State
The "embedded" capitalism of Joseph Schumpeter and John Kenneth Galbraith
Queer Science
A data-bending psychologist confirms what he already knew about gays and transsexuals.