Deirdre McCloskey Biography

Deirdre N. McCloskey has been since 2000 UIC Distinguished Professor of Economics History English and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Trained at Harvard as an economist she has written fifteen books and edited seven more and has published some three hundred and sixty articles on economic theory economic history philosophy rhetoric feminism ethics and law. She taught for twelve years in Economics at the University of Chicago and describes herself now as a postmodern free-market quantitative Episcopalian feminist Aristotelian. Her latest books are How to be Human Though an Economist (University of Michigan Press 2001) Measurement and Meaning in Economics (S. Ziliak ed.; Edward Elgar 2001) The Secret Sins of Economics (Prickly Paradigm Pamphlets U. of Chicago Press 2002) The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs Justice and Lives [with Stephen Ziliak; University of Michigan Press 2008] The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Capitalism (U. of Chicago Press 2006) and Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World (U. of Chicago Press 2010). Before The Bourgeois Virtues her best-known books were The Rhetoric of Economics (University of Wisconsin Press 1st ed. 1985; 2nd ed. 1998) and Crossing: A Memoir (Chicago 1999) which was a New York Times Notable Book.
Her scientific work has been on economic history especially British. She is currently finishing a book the third in a series of three initiated with The Bourgeois Virtues on Dutch and British economic and social history Bourgeois Equality: How Betterment Became Ethical 1600-1848 and Then Suspect. She has written on British economic failure in the 19th century trade and growth in the 19th century open field agriculture in the middle ages the Gold Standard and the Industrial Revolution.

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