Sptember 2, 2016 – The idea is the idea of growth

The well-known economist Deirdre McCloskey, Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago, opened a seminar entitled The idea is the idea of growth. Bettina Kashefi, chief economist at the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, and Ola Pettersson, chief economist at the Swedish Trade Union Confederation, were included in the subsequent panel. McCloskey spoke about her book "Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World" (University of Chicago Press, 2016). She explained that not economics but “humanomics” explains our riches. McCloskey has written 17 books and about 400 scholarly pieces on topics ranging from technical economics and statistical theory to transgender advocacy and the ethics of the bourgeois virtues.