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Deirdre Nansen McCloskey | |
| Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication
University of Illinois at Chicago Professor of Economic History, Gothenburg University, Sweden |
McCloskey is an economist and economic historian who around 1980 got interested in the rhetoric of persuasion in her field, and then wider literary matters, such as literary and social theory. Her main project for the next few years will be writing a six-volume tome on "The Bourgeois Era." Volume 1 was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2006, and widely and on the whole favorably reviewed, we at Prudentia were gratified to see. The next volume, Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World will be ... more » Sometime she will do a book called Economie, making a case for an economic criticism, as a form of literary criticism. A recent technical contribution to economics and statistics is a book with Stephen Ziliak, The Cult of Statistical ... more » The oddest personal fact about Deirdre is that she was until 1995 "Donald." She has written on the matter, especially the account of her transition, 1994-98, Crossing: A Memoir, a NY Times Notable Book. But that's merely the oddest ... more » |
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For our German readers, "Unser Wohlstand grenzt an ein Wunder"
By Steffen Hentrich for the Liberale Institut, 24 January 2012.
RFM (Radio Free Market) features Deirdre as a special guest for its program "Isn't Capitalism Basically Corrupt?"
Hosted by Michael McKay with economist Art Carden, Professor of Economics at Rhodes College, as a commentator.Broadcast date: 21 January 2012.
New videos from McCloskey's recent lectures in Munich: The stunning quality of the Munich videos translates to an unusually long download time. Their content is, as always, well worth the wait.
The Buzz on the
Bourgeois Era
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For our Italian readers, an editorial based on McCloskey's Bourgeois Dignity:
"Come dare dignità al nostro futuro" di Barbara Spinelli, La Repubblico, 11 gennaio 2012. Rave review of Bourgeois Dignity by Don Boudreaux The Independent Review, Winter 2013.
One of the many rewards of reading Bourgeois Dignity is to receive from a worldclass historian as penetrating and eloquent a tour of commercial and industrial history as can possibly be fitted into a single volume.Good Commercial Faith and the City Bourgeois Virtues and commercial law. By Mark Roark, 13 December 2011.
Whether we segregate capitalists from capitalist poets, we nonetheless come to the same conclusion as Emerson and McCloskey — that commerce creates the potential for humans to be good.Review of Bourgeois Dignity. By Henry Clark of Clemson University in EJPE, autumn 2011.
It is as necessary for people to read this magnificent book as it is difficult to define the "people" who ought to read it.
Bourgeois Dignity is awarded "Best Foreign Book" in the UAE.
Article written by Imran Mojib for The Gulf Today, November 17, 2011. Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World is now available in paperback. See details at University of Chicago Press.
Interview from the archives: "She sings the praises of the free market," Nov. 16, 2009. Eva Lundgren, GU Journalen, University of Gothenburg.
McCloskey profiled in the Wall Street Journal
"The New Theories of Moral Sentiments"The economic historian who is bringing love, faith, courage and virtue back into her discipline.
By DALIBOR ROHAC, 27 January 2012
Notes and a photo from The Legatum Institute's hosting of Deirdre, 13 January 2012
Spring 2012 courses For all course materials and information, refer to deirdremcclosky.com/courses.
Prof. McCloskey to be awarded doctor honoris causa at three academic institutions in 2012.
[See also Prudentia's archives]
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Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Copenhagen Business School
Southern Illinois University
News reporter captures Deirdre's lecture in Germany
"Dissing the Golden Goose in the City of London"
D.N. McCloskey, November 2011Sneering at the bourgeoisie and admiring the aristocracy in Shakespearean England yielded trivial growth. Maoism and Great Leaps Forward, or Gandhi combined with LSE socialism, yielded the same. When in the eighteenth century the British became a polite and commercial people, the modern world began.
CBC Radio One's "Ideas" (Toronto) hosts a one-hour interview with Deirdre.
PODCAST of the interview, October 20, 2011.
Richard Handler
Deirdre N. McCloskey is Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago;
and Professor of Economic History, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Prudentia
Susan B. MacDonald, Editor
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