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Deirdre Nansen McCloskey | |
| Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication
University of Illinois at Chicago Professor of Social Thought Academia Vitae, Deventer, NL Professor Extraordinary, Department of Economics, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa |
McCloskey is an economist and economic historian who around 1980 got interested in the rhetoric of persuasion in her field, and then wider literary matters, such as literary and social theory. Her main project for the next few years will be writing a six-volume tome on "The Bourgeois Era." Volume 1 was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2006, and widely and on the whole favorably reviewed, we at Prudentia were gratified to see. The next volume, Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World will be ... more » Sometime she will do a book called Economie, making a case for an economic criticism, as a form of literary criticism. A recent technical contribution to economics and statistics is a book with Stephen Ziliak, The Cult of Statistical ... more » The oddest personal fact about Deirdre is that she was until 1995 "Donald." She has written on the matter, especially the account of her transition, 1994-98, Crossing: A Memoir, a NY Times Notable Book. But that's merely the oddest ... more » |
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Our ability to engage in continuous conversation, testing one another, discovering our hidden presuppositions, changing our minds because we have listened to the voices of our fellows. Lunatics also change their minds, but their minds change with the tides of the moon and not because they have listened, really listened, to their friends' questions and objections.
Camille Pissarro's "Bourgeois House"
An update on the Bourgeois Era series
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Bourgeois Dignity, volume 2, is having its final polish before this autumn's debut. Check back often!
Deirdre welcomes your comments on the very early draft of volume 3, The Bourgeois Revaluation. Browse the table of contents.
As always, information on the well-received first volume, The Bourgeois Virtues, begins here in the books section.
June 2010: "A Dialogue on Market Innovation and Laissez Faire": John Lyne and Deirdre McCloskey.
Deirdre McCloskey is voted one of the "Greatest Economists of the Twentieth Century"
"'Greatest' here means ... who most added to our understanding of economic phenomena."
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Deirdre N. McCloskey is Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Professor of Social Thought at Academia Vitae, Deventer; and Professor Extraordinary, Department of Economics, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
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