Essential Women of Liberty: Deirdre McCloskey
In this series, we explore the lives and ideas of some of the most important and influential women over the last few centuries, each of whom made enormous contributions to the democratic, prosperous, and free societies that dominate the world today. And no such series would be complete without Deirdre McCloskey, whose humanistic view of economics has fundamentally changed the way economists approach their profession.
About Deirdre McCloskey
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, D.C. From 2000 to 2015, she taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she was a distinguished professor of economics and history and a professor of English and communication. During those years, she (as a visitor) taught economic ...
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