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Deirdre McCloskey

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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 Economics History, and Professor of English and Communication. 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. McCloskey holds twelve honorary doctorates. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Deirdre McCloskey is the 274th most popular economist (up from 300th in 2019), the 6,292nd most popular biography from United States (up from 6,419th in 2019) and the 88th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Deirdre McCloskey ranks 274 out of 414. Before her are Alexander Chayanov, Diego Abad de Santillán, Maurice Dobb, Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, and Alexander Gerschenkron. After her are Philip H. Dybvig, G. D. H. Cole, Arthur Laffer, James Wolfensohn, Shoshana Zuboff, and Hernando de Soto Polar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Deirdre McCloskey ranks 391. Before her are Kent Andersson, Wu Ma, Sterling Morrison, Egil Olsen, Boubacar Traoré, and Rubén Salazar Gómez. After her are Tomasz Stańko, Leon Russell, Erika Blanc, Lupe Ontiveros, Svetlana Gannushkina, and Charmian Carr.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Deirdre McCloskey ranks 6,293 out of 20,380. Before her are Mike Bloomfield (1943), Richard H. Truly (1937), Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856), Vivien Thomas (1910), Hal B. Wallis (1898), and Genevieve Cortese (1981). After her are Ronnie Radke (1983), Don Bragg (1935), Michael Paré (1958), Roger Penske (1937), Billy Vaughn (1919), and Richard Simmons (1948).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Deirdre McCloskey ranks 88. Before her are Arthur Melvin Okun (1928), Ellen Swallow Richards (1842), Dennis Meadows (1942), Edward Chamberlin (1899), Leo Huberman (1903), and Joshua Angrist (1960). After her are Philip H. Dybvig (1955), Arthur Laffer (1940), Herman Daly (1938), Robert Barro (1944), Max O. Lorenz (1876), and Paul Sweezy (1910).

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