From the Daniel Cole’s Law, Economics & Cycling blog, “Economists Urge President Obama to Designate More Federally Protected Lands in the West to Stimulate the Economy,” 5 December 2011. View blog entry » View letter »
From Peter Boettke’s Coordination Problem on 4 December 2011 notes on McCloskey and her publications. See full entry at “McCloskey’s Transition to Austrian Economics“
Excerpt from a review of The Tree of Knowledge in lifestyle.Scotsman.com, “Bringing Adam and David up to date” by Mark Fisher (9 December 2011): During [Clifford's] research, one of the most interesting people she came across was Deirdre McCloskey, an American economics professor and fervent believer in the free market. The Tree of Knowledge reflects (more…)
December 8, 2011: “The President, on the recommendation of the Honorary Degree and Distinguished Service Award Committee and the Chancellor of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, presents to the Board of Trustees a resolution recommending that Dr. Deirdre McCloskey be awarded the Honorary Degree, Doctorate of Humane Letters at the May 2012 commencement of the College (more…)
So says Niranjan Rajadhyaksha in “Importance of sweet talk,” Cafe Economics, 20 December 2011. Another excerpt: McCloskey was one among many of the best American economists who was asked by the US National Science Foundation on what the big research ideas over the next 10 years would be. Her answer: “A worrying feature of economics (more…)
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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
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