Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
Economist, historian and academic
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is an American economist who has written more than 25 books. Her work ranges across economic history, rhetoric and the history of liberalism.
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American Born 1942 in Ann Arbor, United States
About Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
McCloskey was born in 1942 and taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2000 to 2015, with posts spanning economics, history, English and communication. She has also taught as a visitor at the University of Gothenburg, the University of the Free State and Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has led the Social Science History Association and the Economic History Association, and she co-founded the Cliometrics Society. Her research interests include the rhetoric of economics, the misuse of statistical significance, and the history and philosophy of liberalism. Her books include The Rhetoric of Economics, Crossing and Bourgeois Equality. She has also written a trilogy on the Bourgeois Era. Her only title in the BookBits catalog is Economical Writing.