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How to be human* : *though an economist
- Title
- How to be human* : *though an economist / Deirdre McCloskey.
- Author
- McCloskey, Deirdre N.
- Publication
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2000], ©2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | HB72 .M33 2000 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 287 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- Economics > Philosophy
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-280) and index.
- Contents
- Rule 1. Be Who You Are, Even if an Economist -- Rule 2. Make Your Economics Courageously Part of Your Identity, and Vice Versa -- Rule 3. Get Ethics beyond "Have a Nice Career" -- Rule 4. Follow the Brave -- Rule 5. Work and Pray -- Rule 6. Watch Your Words and the Work They Do -- Rule 7. Learn to Write at Least Competently -- Rule 8. Don't Specialize without Intellectual Trade -- Rule 9. Read More Widely -- Rule 10. Learn Price Theory, Which Is No Easy Task -- Rule 11. Don't Be Silly about Statistical "Significance" -- Rule 12. And Don't Be Silly about A-Prime, C-Prime "Proofs" in Economics, Either -- Rule 13. Take Rules 11 and 12 Entirely Seriously -- Rule 14. Simulate, Simulate: Calibrate, Calibrate -- Rule 15. Yet Don't Be Too Certain of Your "Expertise"
- ISBN
- 047209744X (acid-free paper)
- 0472067443 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 00009465
- OCLC
- ocm44045502
- SCSB-4069866
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries