Deirdre McCloskey

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is Senior Fellow and holder of the Isaiah Berlin Chair of Liberal Thought at the Cato Institute. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics and of History, and Professor Emerita of English and of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she taught from 2015 after twelve years in the University of Chicago’s Economics Department. Trained at Harvard, McCloskey has written twenty-five books, edited nine, and published over five hundred articles spanning economics, history, philosophy, rhetoric, statistics, ethics, and liberalism. Her recent works include Why Liberalism Works (2019) and, with Art Carden, Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich (2020).