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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