Deirdre Nansen McCloksey

Deirdre Nansen McCloksey

How (Not) to Get Somewhere

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Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
May 01, 2017
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McCloskey replies to Eric Jones's review for Economic Affairs of the Bourgeois Era trilogy.

“‘She comes out against a preference for parsimony or Occam's Razor.’ No, not really. The parsimony of the stunning size of the Great Enrichment is indeed a knock-down argument against all manner of Samuelsonian or Marxist or neo-institutionalist accounts, an argu…

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