Economic Maturity and Entrepreneurial Decline: British Iron and Steel, 1870–1913(1970)
Doctoral advisor
Alexander Gerschenkron
Notable students
Stephen T. Ziliak Claudia Goldin
Website
deirdremccloskey.com
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (born Donald Nansen McCloskey; September 11, 1942) is an American economist and academic. Since 2023 she has been a Distinguished Scholar and holder of the Isaiah Berlin Chair in Liberal Thought at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC. She taught last at the University of Illinois at Chicago 2000-2015 as Distinguished Professor of economics and of history, and Professor of English and communication.[1] During those years she taught as a visitor at Gothenburg University, Sweden in economic history, at the University of the Free State, South Africa in economics, and at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands in philosophy.[1]
McCloskey holds twelve honorary doctorates.[2] She has served as President of the Social Science History Association, the Midwest Economics Association, and the Economic History Association. Co-founder of the Cliometrics Society, she is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has been a Guggenheim, National Institute of the Humanities, and Institute for Advanced Studies fellow. Her research interests include the economic and political origins of the modern world, the misuse of statistical significance in economics and other sciences, British economic history, the rhetoric of economics, and the history and philosophy of liberalism, among others.
^ abMcCloskey CV 2018 uic.edu
^McCloskey, Deirdre (May 11, 2011). "Curriculum Vitae of Professor Deirdre Nansen McCloskey". Deirdre McLoskey.com. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (born Donald Nansen McCloskey; September 11, 1942) is an American economist and academic. Since 2023 she has been a Distinguished...
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the Modern World is a 2010 book by economist and social theorist DeirdreMcCloskey that is the second of a three-book series laying out the thesis that...
known as an extremely bright scholar. As one of his former students DeirdreMcCloskey put it, "Alexander Gerschenkron was not the best teacher or the best...
include use of good rhetorical devices for "disciplined conversation." DeirdreMcCloskey's 1985 book The Rhetoric of Economics argues that "The Mathematization...
Theodor W. Adorno, Ralf Dahrendorf, Steven Pinker, Michael Graziano, DeirdreMcCloskey, Niall Ferguson, David Woodard, Sherry Turkle, Boris Groys, Nassim...
for defining "significant" results." (p. 63.) Ziliak, Stephen and DeirdreMcCloskey (2008), The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error...
Jeffrey Sachs, Anne Applebaum, Ronald Coase, Freeman Dyson, and DeirdreMcCloskey. (www.econtalk.org) Liberty Fund’s Intellectual Portrait Series contains...
Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives (2008) all coauthored with DeirdreMcCloskey. Ziliak received a B.A. in Economics from Indiana University, a PhD...
Gee, Steven Pinker, DeirdreMcCloskey, Leon Kass, Jonathan Haidt, Glenn Loury, Joshua Katz, Vickie Sullivan, Geoffrey Stone, Bill McClay, and Tyler Cowen...
science." "Niall Ferguson has again written a brilliant book," wrote DeirdreMcCloskey in The Wall Street Journal, "this time in defence of traditional top-down...
Maltz Bovy Greil Marcus Wynton Marsalis Kati Marton Debra Mashek DeirdreMcCloskey John McWhorter Uday Mehta Andrew Moravcsik Yascha Mounk Samuel Moyn Meera...
Robert Sabatino Lopez Angus Maddison Karl Marx Peter Mathias Ellen McArthur DeirdreMcCloskey Jacob (Kobi) Metzer Joel Mokyr Douglass North Nathan Nunn Avner...
Due to Colonization". Atlanta Black Star. Retrieved 2023-12-21. "DeirdreMcCloskey: 'What we want is a nonslave society'". Reason.com. 2023-03-29. Retrieved...
students and researchers in economic history, including his colleague DeirdreMcCloskey at Chicago. In 1975 he left for Harvard University, and from 1978...
American University Radio". Wamu.org. Retrieved April 24, 2015. "DeirdreMcCloskey: Formal Bio Archived June 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine". Retrieved...
fundamental factor behind the theory of the firm, behaviour, was neglected. DeirdreMcCloskey has argued that many empirical economic studies are poorly reported...
begins to look very ad hoc when considering the last few decades". DeirdreMcCloskey (University of Illinois) wrote about Clark's theses on genetic influence...
Social and political philosophy Within the field of social ethics, DeirdreMcCloskey argues that virtue ethics can provide a basis for a balanced approach...
of a process, and to relate language and description to behavior (DeirdreMcCloskey, 1985)[clarification needed]. The 2009 Nobel Prize Winners in Economics...
Robert Sabatino Lopez Angus Maddison Karl Marx Peter Mathias Ellen McArthur DeirdreMcCloskey Joel Mokyr Cormac Ó Gráda Henri Pirenne Karl Polanyi Erik S. Reinert...
and wry humor... have become the author's trademarks." However, DeirdreMcCloskey has criticised his characterisation of Adam Smith as a father of the...
1979. Description: Describes the Dickey–Fuller test. Importance: DeirdreMcCloskey and Stephen T. Ziliak Journal of Economic Literature 34: 97–114, 1996...
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