Deirdre McCloskey: podcast appearances and interviews

Deirdre McCloskey is an American economist and academic who has served as a distinguished scholar at the Cato Institute since 2023, holding the Isaiah Berlin Chair in Liberal Thought. She has also been a senior fellow at the organization. McCloskey's academic career includes teaching positions at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2000 to 2015, where she was a distinguished professor of economics and history as well as a professor of English and communication. During her career, she has also taught economic history at the University of Gothenburg, economics at the University of the Free State, and philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has been recognized with twelve honorary doctorates and has held prominent roles such as President of the Social Science History Association and the Economic History Association. She is a co-founder of the Cliometrics Society and has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her research interests encompass the economic and political origins of the modern world, the misuse of statistical significance, British economic history, the rhetoric of economics, and the history and philosophy of liberalism. McCloskey's work has garnered her fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute for Advanced Study.