cover image If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise

If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise

Deirdre N. McCloskey, Donald N. McCloskey. University of Chicago Press, $18 (190pp) ISBN 978-0-226-55671-0

University of Iowa economist McCloskey, writing with wit and seriousness, ascribes society's economic evolution more to art than to science, concluding that economists cannot accurately predict economic results. (May)