Deirdre McCloskey
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Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (born Donald Nansen McCloskey; September 11, 1942) is an American economist and academic. Since 2023 she has been a Distinguished Scholar and holder of the Isaiah Berlin Chair in Liberal Thought at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC. She taught last at the University of Illinois at Chicago 2000-2015 as Distinguished Professor of economics and of history, and Professor of English and communication.[1] During those years she taught as a visitor at Gothenburg University, Sweden in economic history, at the University of the Free State, South Africa in economics, and at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands in philosophy.[1]
Deirdre McCloskey | |
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Born | (1942-09-11) September 11, 1942 (age 81) Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. |
Education | Harvard University (AB, AM, PhD) |
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Fields | Economic history Cliometrics Economic methodology |
Thesis | Economic Maturity and Entrepreneurial Decline: British Iron and Steel, 1870–1913 (1970) |
Doctoral advisor | Alexander Gerschenkron |
Notable students | Stephen T. Ziliak Claudia Goldin |
Website | deirdremccloskey |
McCloskey holds twelve honorary doctorates.[2] She has served as President of the Social Science History Association, the Midwest Economics Association, and the Economic History Association. Co-founder of the Cliometrics Society, she is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has been a Guggenheim, National Institute of the Humanities, and Institute for Advanced Studies fellow. Her research interests include the economic and political origins of the modern world, the misuse of statistical significance in economics and other sciences, British economic history, the rhetoric of economics, and the history and philosophy of liberalism, among others.