Deirdre mcaliskey biography of rory

Formal Biography

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been since 2023 a Senior Fellow and holder of the Isaiah Berlin Chair in Liberal Thought at the Cato Institute in Washington DC.  From 2015 she has been at the University of Illinois at Chicago an Emerita Distinguished Professor of Economics and of History, and Emerita Professor of English and of Communication, and Emerita Adjunct Professor of Classics and of Philosophy.

Trained at Harvard as an economist, she has written twenty-five books and edited nine more, and has published some five hundred articles on economic history, economic theory, statistical theory, rhetoric, literary criticism, feminism, epistemology, ethics, academic policy, legal theory, and liberalism.

She taught for twelve years in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago, as a tenured Associate Professor from 1975, and during her he last year there also in History.  She describes herself now as a “postmodern, free-market, literary