Open AccessPast and Future of Humanomics
Author(s) -
Deirdre N. McCloskey,
Paolo Silvestri
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
erasmus journal for philosophy and economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 1876-9098
DOI - 10.23941/ejpe.v14i1.605
Subject(s) - trilogy , conversation , rhetoric , bourgeoisie , solidarity , sociology , meaning (existential) , value (mathematics) , politics , aesthetics , social science , humanities , epistemology , philosophy , art history , political science , law , theology , art , communication , machine learning , computer science
Paolo Silvestri interviews Deirdre Nansen McCloskey on the occasion of her latest book, Bettering Humanomics: A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science (2021). The interview covers her personal and intellectual life, the main turning points of her journey and her contributions. More specifically, the conversation focuses on McCloskey’s writings on the methodology and rhetoric of economics, her interdisciplinary ventures into the humanities, the Bourgeois Era trilogy with its history of the ‘Great Enrichment’, her liberal political commitments, and the value and meaning of liberty, equality, and solidarity. Finally, the conversation returns to McCloskey’s ‘humanomics’ approach: an economics with the humans left in.