Deirdre Nansen McCloksey

Deirdre Nansen McCloksey

Causation in Historical Explanations

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Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
May 01, 2021
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Paolo Silvestri interviews McCloskey about Beyond Behaviorism, Positivism, and Neo-Institutionalism in Economics, one of her soon-to-be-published books, for the Journal of Institutional Economics.

“People say ‘Obviously, rule of law caused the Great Enrichment. Look what would have happened without it.’ That is the structure of North’s books and Acemoglu…

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