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

Donald N. McCloskey / Author, Deirdre N. McCloskey / Author Un

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)

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