Prof. McCloskey, We have never met, but I’d like use the comments section of your blog to thank you for writing “Other things equal: Aunt Deirdre’s letter to a graduate student”. It changed my life. I had just completed a 3 paper-theorem-proof standard issue thesis. By chance, I read your article addressed to the hapless, (more…)
Dearest Deirdre, Not for publication, obviously – just the quickest means of communication as our email is down over the whole 5-day long weekend. I’ve just read your revised “Signifying Nothing”. Slowly(!), in order to understand as well as possible outside my own “world”. If I’m reading correctly, I think you might like to re-proof (more…)
Dear Prof. McCloskey Over this past weekend I have read your article called “On not even knowing French” and your book on “Economical Writing” – a book which I wish I had read even before becoming a graduate student. For the very first time my writing mistakes have been pointed out under chapter headings (which (more…)
“It’s one of the finest writing books I’ve ever read, a fitting companion to Strunk & White’s Elements of Style and a handful of other beautifully written, easily read, and thoroughly entertaining books about writing.” … [continues; click post title above]
See full post (a review of Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life by George Scialabba, 24 Feb. 2011 at the American Conservative Magazine).
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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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