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Deirdre McCloskey

January 01, 1970

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]

Deirdre McCloskey
Born (1942-09-11) September 11, 1942 (age 81)
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
EducationHarvard University (AB, AM, PhD)
Known for
Scientific career
FieldsEconomic history
Cliometrics
Economic methodology
ThesisEconomic Maturity and Entrepreneurial Decline: British Iron and Steel, 1870–1913 (1970)
Doctoral advisorAlexander Gerschenkron
Notable studentsStephen T. Ziliak
Claudia Goldin
Websitedeirdremccloskey.com

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.

Career edit

 
McCloskey speaking in 2015 in Washington, D.C.

Born in Ann Arbor, McCloskey received an AB in economics from Harvard University in 1964, and a PhD in economics from Harvard in 1970, where she studied with Alexander Gerschenkron.[1][3] Her doctoral dissertation on the British iron and steel industry won the 1973 David A. Wells Prize.[4]

In 1968, McCloskey became an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago, and then associate professor in 1973; she was tenured in 1975, and appointed simultaneously as associate professor of history in 1979.[1] Her work at Chicago is marked by her contribution to the cliometric revolution in economic history, and teaching generations of leading economists Chicago Price Theory, a course which culminated in her book The Applied Theory of Price.[5] In 1979, at the suggestion of Wayne Booth in English at Chicago, she turned to the study of rhetoric in economics. Worried in 1980 when her colleagues in economics would not promote her to full professor, McCloskey left Chicago for the University of Iowa, where she taught until 1999, being appointed the John F. Murray Chair in Economics in 1984.[1] Soon after joining Iowa, she published The Rhetoric of Economics (1985) and co-founded with John S. Nelson, Allan Megill, and others an institution and graduate program, the Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry.[6] In 1996 at Iowa she and Stephen Ziliak published a seminal paper of econometrics, "The Standard Error of Regressions" in Journal of Economic Literature, marking the beginning of a decades-long collaboration, led mostly by Ziliak, on the history, philosophy, and practice of statistical significance testing and estimation in economics, medicine, and other sciences.[7]

McCloskey has authored or co-authored 25 books and nearly 500 articles.[8] Her major contributions have been to the economic history of Britain (focusing on 19th-century trade and industry, and medieval agriculture), the quantification of historical inquiry (cliometrics), the rhetoric of economics, the rhetoric of the human sciences, economic methodology, virtue ethics, feminist economics, heterodox economics, the role of mathematics in economic analysis, the use (and misuse) of significance testing in economics, her trilogy The Bourgeois Era,[9] and the origins of modern economic growth.

The Bourgeois Era edit

Her book The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce,[10] published in 2006, argued that the bourgeoisie exhibits all of the seven virtues of the Western Tradition.

A second, Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World, was published in 2010, and argued that the unprecedented increase in human welfare of the 19th and 20th centuries, from $3 per capita per day to over $100 per day, issued not from capitalist accumulation but from innovation under an unprecedented liberalism in northwest Europe and is offshoots.

The third, Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World (2016) explains the origins of the liberalism that made the modern world.[9] The trilogy gives a new, and old, account of the nature and causes of the wealth of nations.

A popular version of the trilogy is Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World (co-authored with Art Carden) in 2022.

Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All(2019) and much of her recent work develops a full-scale defense of true liberalism.

Personal life edit

McCloskey is the eldest child of Robert McCloskey, a professor of government at Harvard University, and Helen McCloskey (née Stueland), an opera singer in her youth and a poet in her maturity. McCloskey was born Donald and lived as a man until age 53. Married for thirty years, and parent of two children, she transitioned in 1995, among the first of academics to do so, and wrote about her experience in a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Crossing: A Memoir (1999, University of Chicago Press).[11]

McCloskey has advocated on behalf of the rights of persons and organizations in the LGBTQ community.[12]

In 2003, McCloskey was a vocal critic of J. Michael Bailey's book The Man Who Would Be Queen.

McCloskey has described herself as a "literary, quantitative, postmodern, free-market, progressive Episcopalian, Midwestern woman from Boston who was once a man. Not 'conservative'! I'm a Christian Classical Liberal."[13]

Publications edit

  • Why liberalism works: how true liberal values produce a freer, more equal, prosperous world for all (2019), Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300235081
  • Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World (2016), University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226333991
  • The Oxford Handbook of Professional Economic Ethics (2016), Oxford University Press. (with George F. DeMartino). ISBN 978-0199766635
  • Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World (2010), University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226556659
  • The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives (2008), University of Michigan Press (with Stephen T. Ziliak). ISBN 978-0472050079
  • The Bourgeois Virtues : Ethics for an Age of Commerce (2006), University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226556635
  • The Economic Conversation (2008) (with Arjo Klamer and Stephen Ziliak) ISBN 978-0230506800
  • The Secret Sins of Economics (2002), University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0971757530
  • Crossing: A Memoir (S1999). New edition University of Chicago Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0226556697
  • Measurement and Meaning in Economics: The Essential Deirdre McCloskey (1999) (edited by Stephen Ziliak) ISBN 978-1852788186
  • The Vices of Economists, the Virtues of the Bourgeoisie (1996) ISBN 978-9053562444
  • Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics (1994), Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521436038
  • Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of U.S. Economic History (1993) (edited) ISBN 978-0195101188
  • A Bibliography of Historical Economics to 1980 (1990) ISBN 978-0521153850
  • If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise (1990) ISBN 978-0226556710
  • The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric (1988) ISBN 978-0521342865
  • The Writing of Economics (1987) reprinted as Economical Writing (2000) ISBN 978-1577660637
  • Econometric History (1987) ISBN 978-0333213711
  • The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences: Language and Argument in Scholarship and Public Affairs (1987) ISBN 978-0299110246
  • The Rhetoric of Economics (1985 & 1998) ISBN 978-0299158149
  • The Applied Theory of Price (1982 & 1985) ISBN 978-0023785207
  • Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain: Essays in Historical Economics (1981) ISBN 978-0415313056
  • Economic Maturity and Entrepreneurial Decline: British Iron & Steel, 1870–1913 (1973) ISBN 978-0674428478
  • Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain after 1840 (1971) ISBN 978-0691051987

Articles edit

  • McCloskey, Deirdre (1980). "Review of Stratton and Brown's agricultural records in Britain". Journal of Economic History. 40 (March 1980): 189. doi:10.1017/S0022050700104735. S2CID 154867548.
  • McCloskey, Deirdre (May 1985). "The loss function has been mislaid: The rhetoric of significance tests". The American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings. 75 (2): 201–205. JSTOR 1805596.
  • McCloskey, Deirdre N. (February 1988). "The rhetoric of law and economics". Michigan Law Review. 86 (4): 752–767. doi:10.2307/1289214. JSTOR 1289214.
  • McCloskey, Deirdre (September 1995). "Modern epistemology against analytic philosophy: A reply to Mäki". Journal of Economic Literature. 33 (3): 1319–1323. JSTOR 2729124.
  • McCloskey, Deirdre; Ziliak, Stephen T. (March 1996). "The standard error of regressions". Journal of Economic Literature. 34 (1): 97–114. JSTOR 2729411.[permanent dead link] Pdf.
  • McCloskey, Deirdre (January 1998). "Simulating Barbara". Feminist Economics. 4 (3): 181–186. doi:10.1080/135457098338383.
  • McCloskey, Deirdre (Winter 2003). "Other Things Equal: Milton". Eastern Economic Journal. 29 (1): 143–146. JSTOR 40326463.
  • McCloskey, Deirdre; Ziliak, Stephen T. (2004). "Size matters: The standard error of regressions in the American Economic Review". Econ Journal Watch. 1 (2): 331–338. Pdf.
  • McCloskey, Deirdre (July–August 2009). "Rhetoric matters: Ethical standards in a humanistic science of economics". Challenge. 52 (4): 25–31. doi:10.2753/0577-5132520403. JSTOR 40722588. S2CID 144681445.
  • McCloskey, Deirdre N.; Roberts, Helen (July–September 2012). "What economics should we teach before college, if any?". The Journal of Economic Education. 43 (3): 293–299. doi:10.1080/00220485.2012.686396. JSTOR 23248956. S2CID 144429500.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e McCloskey CV 2018 uic.edu
  2. ^ McCloskey, Deirdre (May 11, 2011). "Curriculum Vitae of Professor Deirdre Nansen McCloskey". Deirdre McLoskey.com. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  3. ^ Emmett, Ross B. (1 January 2010). The Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84980-666-4. Retrieved 25 February 2024 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ McCloskey, Deirdre. Measurement and Meaning in Economics: The Essential Deirdre McCloskey, ed. Stephen Thomas Ziliak (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001), 350.
  5. ^ McCloskey, Deirdre. "The Applied Theory of Price" (PDF). PDF. Deirdre McCloskey.com. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  6. ^ . Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry (2008–2015). The University of Iowa. Archived from the original on April 11, 2015. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
  7. ^ https://elibrary.duncker-humblot.com/article/66512/deirdrest
  8. ^ Walsh, Matt (December 2, 2013). "Economist Deirdre McCloskey: playing both sides of the street". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
  9. ^ a b McCloskey, Deirdre. "Books by Deirdre McCloskey". Deirdre McCloskey.com. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  10. ^ McCloskey, Deirdre (2006). Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an age of Commerce. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  11. ^ . Reason. 1999–2012. Archived from the original on 2008-06-07. Retrieved 2008-10-27.
  12. ^ Learn Liberty (2015-11-10), Trans Talks: Series Trailer, archived from the original on 2021-12-21, retrieved 2017-02-12
  13. ^ McCloskey, Deirdre. "Informal Biographical Remarks". deirdremccloskey.com. Retrieved 13 February 2018.

External links edit

  • Deirdre McCloskey personal home page  
  • "Leading Economist Stuns Field by Deciding to Become a Woman"
  • Roberts, Russ (March 31, 2008). "McCloskey on Capitalism and the Bourgeois Virtues". EconTalk. Library of Economics and Liberty.
  • Appearances on C-SPAN
  • A Letter on Justice and Open Debate, Harper's Magazine

January 01, 1970
deirdre, mccloskey, deirdre, nansen, mccloskey, born, donald, nansen, mccloskey, september, 1942, american, economist, academic, since, 2023, been, distinguished, scholar, holder, isaiah, berlin, chair, liberal, thought, cato, institute, washington, taught, la. 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 Deirdre McCloskeyBorn 1942 09 11 September 11 1942 age 81 Ann Arbor Michigan U S EducationHarvard University AB AM PhD Known forEconomic history of Britain McCloskey critiqueScientific careerFieldsEconomic historyCliometricsEconomic methodologyThesisEconomic Maturity and Entrepreneurial Decline British Iron and Steel 1870 1913 1970 Doctoral advisorAlexander GerschenkronNotable studentsStephen T ZiliakClaudia GoldinWebsitedeirdremccloskey wbr com 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 Contents 1 Career 2 The Bourgeois Era 3 Personal life 4 Publications 5 Articles 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksCareer edit nbsp McCloskey speaking in 2015 in Washington D C Born in Ann Arbor McCloskey received an AB in economics from Harvard University in 1964 and a PhD in economics from Harvard in 1970 where she studied with Alexander Gerschenkron 1 3 Her doctoral dissertation on the British iron and steel industry won the 1973 David A Wells Prize 4 In 1968 McCloskey became an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago and then associate professor in 1973 she was tenured in 1975 and appointed simultaneously as associate professor of history in 1979 1 Her work at Chicago is marked by her contribution to the cliometric revolution in economic history and teaching generations of leading economists Chicago Price Theory a course which culminated in her book The Applied Theory of Price 5 In 1979 at the suggestion of Wayne Booth in English at Chicago she turned to the study of rhetoric in economics Worried in 1980 when her colleagues in economics would not promote her to full professor McCloskey left Chicago for the University of Iowa where she taught until 1999 being appointed the John F Murray Chair in Economics in 1984 1 Soon after joining Iowa she published The Rhetoric of Economics 1985 and co founded with John S Nelson Allan Megill and others an institution and graduate program the Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry 6 In 1996 at Iowa she and Stephen Ziliak published a seminal paper of econometrics The Standard Error of Regressions in Journal of Economic Literature marking the beginning of a decades long collaboration led mostly by Ziliak on the history philosophy and practice of statistical significance testing and estimation in economics medicine and other sciences 7 McCloskey has authored or co authored 25 books and nearly 500 articles 8 Her major contributions have been to the economic history of Britain focusing on 19th century trade and industry and medieval agriculture the quantification of historical inquiry cliometrics the rhetoric of economics the rhetoric of the human sciences economic methodology virtue ethics feminist economics heterodox economics the role of mathematics in economic analysis the use and misuse of significance testing in economics her trilogy The Bourgeois Era 9 and the origins of modern economic growth The Bourgeois Era editHer book The Bourgeois Virtues Ethics for an Age of Commerce 10 published in 2006 argued that the bourgeoisie exhibits all of the seven virtues of the Western Tradition A second Bourgeois Dignity Why Economics Can t Explain the Modern World was published in 2010 and argued that the unprecedented increase in human welfare of the 19th and 20th centuries from 3 per capita per day to over 100 per day issued not from capitalist accumulation but from innovation under an unprecedented liberalism in northwest Europe and is offshoots The third Bourgeois Equality How Ideas Not Capital or Institutions Enriched the World 2016 explains the origins of the liberalism that made the modern world 9 The trilogy gives a new and old account of the nature and causes of the wealth of nations A popular version of the trilogy is Leave Me Alone and I ll Make You Rich How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World co authored with Art Carden in 2022 Why Liberalism Works How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer More Equal Prosperous World for All 2019 and much of her recent work develops a full scale defense of true liberalism Personal life editMcCloskey is the eldest child of Robert McCloskey a professor of government at Harvard University and Helen McCloskey nee Stueland an opera singer in her youth and a poet in her maturity McCloskey was born Donald and lived as a man until age 53 Married for thirty years and parent of two children she transitioned in 1995 among the first of academics to do so and wrote about her experience in a New York Times Notable Book of the Year Crossing A Memoir 1999 University of Chicago Press 11 McCloskey has advocated on behalf of the rights of persons and organizations in the LGBTQ community 12 In 2003 McCloskey was a vocal critic of J Michael Bailey s book The Man Who Would Be Queen McCloskey has described herself as a literary quantitative postmodern free market progressive Episcopalian Midwestern woman from Boston who was once a man Not conservative I m a Christian Classical Liberal 13 Publications editWhy liberalism works how true liberal values produce a freer more equal prosperous world for all 2019 Yale University Press ISBN 978 0300235081 Bourgeois Equality How Ideas Not Capital or Institutions Enriched the World 2016 University of Chicago Press ISBN 978 0226333991 The Oxford Handbook of Professional Economic Ethics 2016 Oxford University Press with George F DeMartino ISBN 978 0199766635 Bourgeois Dignity Why Economics Can t Explain the Modern World 2010 University of Chicago Press ISBN 978 0226556659 The Cult of Statistical Significance How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs Justice and Lives 2008 University of Michigan Press with Stephen T Ziliak ISBN 978 0472050079 The Bourgeois Virtues Ethics for an Age of Commerce 2006 University of Chicago Press ISBN 978 0226556635 The Economic Conversation 2008 with Arjo Klamer and Stephen Ziliak ISBN 978 0230506800 The Secret Sins of Economics 2002 University of Chicago Press ISBN 978 0971757530 Crossing A Memoir S1999 New edition University of Chicago Press 2000 ISBN 978 0226556697 Measurement and Meaning in Economics The Essential Deirdre McCloskey 1999 edited by Stephen Ziliak ISBN 978 1852788186 The Vices of Economists the Virtues of the Bourgeoisie 1996 ISBN 978 9053562444 Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics 1994 Cambridge University Press ISBN 978 0521436038 Second Thoughts Myths and Morals of U S Economic History 1993 edited ISBN 978 0195101188 A Bibliography of Historical Economics to 1980 1990 ISBN 978 0521153850 If You re So Smart The Narrative of Economic Expertise 1990 ISBN 978 0226556710 The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric 1988 ISBN 978 0521342865 The Writing of Economics 1987 reprinted as Economical Writing 2000 ISBN 978 1577660637 Econometric History 1987 ISBN 978 0333213711 The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences Language and Argument in Scholarship and Public Affairs 1987 ISBN 978 0299110246 The Rhetoric of Economics 1985 amp 1998 ISBN 978 0299158149 The Applied Theory of Price 1982 amp 1985 ISBN 978 0023785207 Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain Essays in Historical Economics 1981 ISBN 978 0415313056 Economic Maturity and Entrepreneurial Decline British Iron amp Steel 1870 1913 1973 ISBN 978 0674428478 Essays on a Mature Economy Britain after 1840 1971 ISBN 978 0691051987Articles editMcCloskey Deirdre 1980 Review of Stratton and Brown s agricultural records in Britain Journal of Economic History 40 March 1980 189 doi 10 1017 S0022050700104735 S2CID 154867548 McCloskey Deirdre May 1985 The loss function has been mislaid The rhetoric of significance tests The American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 75 2 201 205 JSTOR 1805596 McCloskey Deirdre N February 1988 The rhetoric of law and economics Michigan Law Review 86 4 752 767 doi 10 2307 1289214 JSTOR 1289214 McCloskey Deirdre September 1995 Modern epistemology against analytic philosophy A reply to Maki Journal of Economic Literature 33 3 1319 1323 JSTOR 2729124 McCloskey Deirdre Ziliak Stephen T March 1996 The standard error of regressions Journal of Economic Literature 34 1 97 114 JSTOR 2729411 permanent dead link Pdf McCloskey Deirdre January 1998 Simulating Barbara Feminist Economics 4 3 181 186 doi 10 1080 135457098338383 McCloskey Deirdre Winter 2003 Other Things Equal Milton Eastern Economic Journal 29 1 143 146 JSTOR 40326463 McCloskey Deirdre Ziliak Stephen T 2004 Size matters The standard error of regressions in the American Economic Review Econ Journal Watch 1 2 331 338 Pdf McCloskey Deirdre July August 2009 Rhetoric matters Ethical standards in a humanistic science of economics Challenge 52 4 25 31 doi 10 2753 0577 5132520403 JSTOR 40722588 S2CID 144681445 McCloskey Deirdre N Roberts Helen July September 2012 What economics should we teach before college if any The Journal of Economic Education 43 3 293 299 doi 10 1080 00220485 2012 686396 JSTOR 23248956 S2CID 144429500 See also editList of feminist economistsReferences edit a b c d e McCloskey CV 2018 uic edu McCloskey Deirdre May 11 2011 Curriculum Vitae of Professor Deirdre Nansen McCloskey Deirdre McLoskey com Retrieved 30 March 2013 Emmett Ross B 1 January 2010 The Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN 978 1 84980 666 4 Retrieved 25 February 2024 via Google Books McCloskey Deirdre Measurement and Meaning in Economics The Essential Deirdre McCloskey ed Stephen Thomas Ziliak Cheltenham UK and Northampton MA Edward Elgar Publishing 2001 350 McCloskey Deirdre The Applied Theory of Price PDF PDF Deirdre McCloskey com Retrieved 30 March 2013 People Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry 2008 2015 The University of Iowa Archived from the original on April 11 2015 Retrieved April 5 2015 https elibrary duncker humblot com article 66512 deirdrest Walsh Matt December 2 2013 Economist Deirdre McCloskey playing both sides of the street The Sydney Morning Herald Retrieved April 5 2013 a b McCloskey Deirdre Books by Deirdre McCloskey Deirdre McCloskey com Retrieved 30 March 2013 McCloskey Deirdre 2006 Bourgeois Virtues Ethics for an age of Commerce Chicago University of Chicago Press From Donald to Deirdre How a man became a woman and what it says about identity Reason 1999 2012 Archived from the original on 2008 06 07 Retrieved 2008 10 27 Learn Liberty 2015 11 10 Trans Talks Series Trailer archived from the original on 2021 12 21 retrieved 2017 02 12 McCloskey Deirdre Informal Biographical Remarks deirdremccloskey com Retrieved 13 February 2018 External links editDeirdre McCloskey personal home page nbsp Leading Economist Stuns Field by Deciding to Become a Woman Roberts Russ March 31 2008 McCloskey on Capitalism and the Bourgeois Virtues EconTalk Library of Economics and Liberty Appearances on C SPAN A Letter on Justice and Open Debate Harper s Magazine Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Deirdre McCloskey amp oldid 1223544255, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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