On Monday, October 11, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will name the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. My fingers will be crossed for professor of economics, history, English, and communications Dierdre McCloskey. No living economic historian has done as much to solve humanity’s most important riddle: What caused the Great Enrichment that took hold in Holland and England at the end of the 18th century and now has spread to most of humanity?
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