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…)

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…)

An excerpt from “Teaching humans to be economists” (Diane Coyle in The Enlightened Economist, January 4, 2012): I’m winding down after a day’s lecture preparation by dipping into Deirdre McCloskey’s How to Be Human (Though an Economist), always enjoyable. The book fell open at her essay “Why Economics Should Not Be Taught In High School.” (more…)

Excerpted from Timothy R. Homan in “Ethics Code Requires Economics Authors Disclose Financial Ties” for Bloomberg Businessweek, January 09, 2012: “It’s not like economics is leading the way; economics is following,” said Deirdre McCloskey, a professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She said a code of ethics is “already commonplace in (more…)

Access complete article: “The Liberalism of Classical Liberalism” by PETER BOETTKE on JANUARY 26, 2012.

See complete article, “Speaker recounts experience of gender transition” by Kellie Rowe in The State News, 27 January 2012.

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