Dear Prof. McCloskey, I absolutely love your website! Thanks for all the information that you share. I can’t wait for the opportunity to take one of your courses. I have so many questions for you…especially since my dissertation in economics focuses on the auto industry and England. Many greetings to the mini-Bard. Best regards, Cristina

Dear Deirdre, I’ve not spoken with you for a while but hope to meet you again in the near future. Any change of you coming to NL again this year? Somehow both your book ‘Crossing’ and our conversation last summer have had great impact on me. It’s good to have an example when you travel (more…)

I don’t remember when was the last time I saw such a narcissistic website, self-congratulatory and self-obsessed. Perhaps in tandem with the author’s push of the idea of ethical capitalism, a lot of self-promotion does not go unnoticed.

Prof. McCloskey, I stumbled on your blog site by accident, but glad I did. I was a former undergrad econ student of yours back in the early 80s. I started out in political theory (John Nelson) and intellectual history (Alan Megil), took one of your courses on British Econ History and I’ve been hooked on (more…)

Dear Deirdre McCloskey, First of all I’d like to say what a brilliant website you have…one can even post a comment and have a reply (if one is lucky). I heard about you from the Beyond Belief meeting almost a year ago. I watched the lectures on the Internet. Being an atheist this whole thing (more…)

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