Deirdre McCloskey writes economic history, rhetoric, liberal political thought and memoir, often challenging economists to take language, culture and institutions as seriously as formal models. The Bourgeois Virtues begins a large trilogy arguing that commercial society depends on ethical and cultural changes as well as markets, followed by Bourgeois Dignity and Bourgeois Equality on innovation and modern economic growth. The Rhetoric of Economics examines how economists persuade through metaphor, narrative and authority even when presenting their work as purely formal science. Crossing is a memoir of gender transition and academic life. McCloskey's prose is energetic, argumentative and wide-ranging, with history, economics and literary reference mixed freely. Her work fits economic history, classical liberalism, rhetoric and intellectual memoir. Read more Less
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