Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (born September 11, 1942 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American economist and historian. She studied Economics at Harvard and has been a distinguished professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago, teaching Economics, History, English, and Communication.
Among her most notable works are "The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce" (2006), "Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World" (2010), and "Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World" (2016). These books belong to the genre of economic history and economic philosophy. Additionally, she has received honorary doctorates from several institutions, including the University of Gothenburg and the National University of Ireland in Galway.
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