Deirdre N. McCloskey

The emotional pattern seems to be something like, __Karl] Polanyi, a person of the left like me, says many true things, beautifully. Therefore his tales about what happened in economic history must be true._ Marx before him got similar treatment. Lately the more eloquent of the environmentalists, such as Wendell Berry, get it too. People want to believe that beauty is truth. A supporting emotional frame on the left arises from the very idea of historical progress: __e must be able to do so much better than this wretched capitalism._ It is not true, but it motivates.