Notes, quotes. and photos of May 2010

“I suppose the highlight of the entire Road Show was getting to know Professor Deirdre McCloskey, who took part in four of the seven conferences. Deirdre is a first-rate economist, a committed advocate of freedom, and a genuine renaissance woman with impressive knowledge of just about everything.”

~ Dan Mitchell, after meeting Deirdre in Skopje.

~ SOURCE & Dan Mitchell’s complete entry »


Deirdre McCloskey (center) at the Hayek Institut conference

Notes on Deirdre’s keynote speech at Vienna’s Free Market Road Show, and a brief of the proceedings.

A Scottish playwright reflects on meeting Deirdre and her subsequent urge to read Bourgeois Virtues.

Free Market Road Show speakers

Heckscher Lecture brochure

[Videos] Two Chats on Liberty to the Oxford Libertarian Society:

1. “Changing Gender in a Free Society

2. “Liberty and the Success of Capitalism

Relevant literature: “Selected chapters from Bourgeois Dignity

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