Dr. Deirdre McCloskey: "Bettering Humanomics: A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science"
Recorded Zoom Event Rebroadcast (originally aired Sept. 22)

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Hosted by the Center for Public Choice & Market Process at the College of Charleston (South Carolina) in partnership with the PERI.

About the Talk: Economics ignores persuasion in the economy. The economics of asymmetric “information” or common “knowledge” over the past 40 years speaks of costs and benefits but bypasses persuasion, “sweet talk.” Sweet talk accounts for a quarter of national income, and so is not mere “cheap talk.” Research should direct economics and the numerous other social sciences influenced by economics back towards human meaning in speech—meaning which has even in the most rigorously behaviorist experiments been shown to matter greatly to the outcome.

About the speaker: Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics and of History, and Professor Emerita of English and of Communication, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Trained at Harvard in the 1960s as an economist, she has written twenty books and some four hundred academic articles on economic theory, economic history, philosophy, rhetoric, statistical theory, feminism, ethics, and law.