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American economist (born 1942)

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, D.C.

From 2000 to 2015, she taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she was Distinguished Professor of EconomicsHistory, and Professor of English and Communication.^[1] During those years, she (as a visitor) taught economic history at the University of Gothenburg, economics at the University of the Free State, and philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam.^[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 Ar Deirdre N. McCloskey: books, biography, latest update JIG