. >> joining us on booktv doctor deidre mccloskey, the author of over 30 books in the economist of illinois at chicago her most recent book veteran human makes what you mean when you say human makes. >> i'm in hopeless economist, i cannot help it i'm also historian and i taught a professor of english and philosophy and i think the economics should not give up the math or the numbers or anything like that but it should add to it what we can learn i learned a lot every time and it's all hands on deck idea but in order to truly understand you have to understand our whole life in particular not adam smith buth. his followers knew the field until nows economist think they could do economics by watching people that's okay i'm not against watching people. but watching people does not tell you about the meaning that they will bring to the economic life, what does your job mean to you and what is consumption mean to you you need the important questions which the humanities consider in modern economics does not i am in favor of human ox. >> doctor, in your view what does shakespeare or mozart add to

. >> joining us on booktv doctor deidre mccloskey, the author of over 30 books in the economist of illinoisgo her most recent book veteran human makes what you mean when you say human makes. >> i'm in