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Donald N. McCloskey
Researcher at University of Illinois at Chicago
Publications - 249
Citations - 13319
Donald N. McCloskey is an academic researcher from University of Illinois at Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rhetoric & Applied economics. The author has an hindex of 53, co-authored 249 publications receiving 13078 citations. Previous affiliations of Donald N. McCloskey include Florida State University College of Arts and Sciences & Harvard University.
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The Rhetoric of Economics
TL;DR: McCloskey as discussed by the authors describes how economic discourse employs metaphor, authority, symmetry, and other rhetorical means of persuasion, showing economists to be human persuaders and poets of the marketplace, even in their most technical and mathematical moods.
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The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
TL;DR: Ziliak and McCloskey as discussed by the authors showed field-by-field how the wreck happened, reports on the fatalities, and offers a quantitative way forward for the statistical sciences.
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The Standard Error of Regressions
TL;DR: For example, the authors tested 182 papers using regression analysis in the American Economic Review in the 1980s against 19 criteria for the accepted use of statistical significance and found that most, some three-quarters, did poorly.
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The Economic History of Britain since 1700
TL;DR: An economic history of Britain since 1700, in three volumes by 39 eminent historians and economists, is described in this article, which will appeal particularly to first and second year university students but is also suitable for anyone interested in the history of the British economy.
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Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
TL;DR: McCloskey as mentioned in this paper argues that economic change depends less on foreign trade, investment, or material causes, and a whole lot more on ideas and what people believe, and that the big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession.