“Fascinating reading . . . . A worthy tribute to a remarkable scholar and woman.”
 

Journal of Interdisciplinary History

“Two essays deserve special mention. First, ‘Queering McCloskey's Feminism in Location and History,’ by Robin L. Bartlett, is essential reading for any economist who wants to connect economics with wider currents in social science and the humanities. Second, Steven E. Landsburg's ‘McCloskey at Chicago’ stands out as a heartfelt tribute to a McCloskey's role as a mentor inside and outside the classroom. More generally, the editors deserve credit for the uniformly high quality of the essays and the thorough introduction they provide at the beginning of the volume. . . . Essential.” 

CHOICE

"As big and bold, challenging and courageous, transformative and persuasive as its honoree.”

Claudia Goldin, Harvard University

“These essays in economic history illustrate, substantiate, and honor the work of Deirdre McCloskey, whose pioneering application of quantitative methods to economic history—‘cliometry’—did not result in the economization of cultural life, as one might expect, but in seeing economic life as a culture of free communication. The capitalist goose lays its golden egg by disseminating shared values through persuasive speech, thereby evading both materialistic self-interest and its supposed cure, the notion that politics must save capitalism from itself.  It is hard to tell whether the world is being turned upside down or right side up!”

David Depew, University of Iowa