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How to be human* : *though an economist
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- Creator
- Deirdre McCloskey
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2000]
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- 287 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780472097449, 047209744X, 9780472067442, 0472067443
- OCLC
- ocm44045502
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-280) and index.
- Rule 1. Be Who You Are, Even if an Economist -- Rule 2. Make Your Economics Courageously Part of Your Identity, and Vice Versa -- Rule 3. Get Ethics beyond "Have a Nice Career" -- Rule 4. Follow the Brave -- Rule 5. Work and Pray -- Rule 6. Watch Your Words and the Work They Do -- Rule 7. Learn to Write at Least Competently -- Rule 8. Don't Specialize without Intellectual Trade -- Rule 9. Read More Widely -- Rule 10. Learn Price Theory, Which Is No Easy Task -- Rule 11. Don't Be Silly about Statistical "Significance" -- Rule 12. And Don't Be Silly about A-Prime, C-Prime "Proofs" in Economics, Either -- Rule 13. Take Rules 11 and 12 Entirely Seriously -- Rule 14. Simulate, Simulate: Calibrate, Calibrate -- Rule 15. Yet Don't Be Too Certain of Your "Expertise"