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Conversation with Deirdre McCloskey: Win-win-win-win … lose

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DeMartino, G., McCloskey, D. Conversation with Deirdre McCloskey: Win-win-win-win … lose. Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, 140(3–4), 367-385. https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.140.3-4.367
DeMartino, George F. and McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen "Conversation with Deirdre McCloskey: Win-win-win-win … lose" Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch 140.3–4, 2020, 367-385. https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.140.3-4.367
DeMartino, George F./McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen (2020): Conversation with Deirdre McCloskey: Win-win-win-win … lose, in: Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, vol. 140, iss. 3–4, 367-385, [online] https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.140.3-4.367
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Conversation with Deirdre McCloskey: Win-win-win-win … lose

DeMartino, George F. | McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen

Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. 140 (2020), Iss. 3–4 : pp. 367–385

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George F. DeMartino, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, United States.

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics and of History, Professor Emerita of English and of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago, 720 S. Dearborn Street, Unit 206, Chicago, IL 60605, United States.

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Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
George F. DeMartino/Deirdre Nansen McCloskey: Conversation with Deirdre McCloskey: Win-win-win-win … lose 1
On the Matter of Compensation Tests 2
The Abuse of Compensation Tests 5
Then Can We Agree to Excise Facile Compensation Tests from Economics? 1
Win, Win, Win … Lose – The Paretian Defense of Uncompensated Harms 1
The McCloskey Counterfactual 1
The Hegelian Challenge 1
References 1

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