Deirdre Nansen McCloskey's Blog

Deirdre McCloskey was the featured speaker at this Cato Institute forum, which can be viewed online or downloaded as an audio podcast.

McCloskey will be honored on June 20 at the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual dinner and reception in Washington.

“A Neo-Institutionalism of Measurement, Without Measurement: A Comment on Douglas Allen's The Institutional Revolution” is Deirdre McCloskey’s contribution to a symposium that will appear in a future issue of the Review of Austrian Economics. "Allen does yeoman work in explaining some of the peculiarities of British public administration, such as the reliance on aristocratic honor … Continue reading McCloskey comments on Douglas Allen’s ‘Institutional Revolution’ →

A chapter-by-chapter outline of Deirdre McCloskey’s in-progress book The Treasured Bourgeoisie: How Markets and Innovation Became Virtuous, 1600-1848, and Then Suspect, a third volume in her series on The Bourgeois Era.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, 1-7 June, graduate seminar on the history of the wealth of nations, Gothenburg University STOCKHOLM, Sweden, 11 June, Centre for Business and Policy Studies ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands, 13-15 June, keynote Conference of the International Network for Economic Method WASHINGTON, 19-22 June, to receive Julian L. Simon Memorial Award SORÈZE, France, 24-30 July, 22nd … Continue reading Deirdre McCloskey’s agenda, June-July →

An e-book version of Deirdre McCloskey’s Crossing: A Memoir is free to download this month from its publisher, the University of Chicago Press.

A five-chapter excerpt from Deirdre McCloskey’s book Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World (2010) that contends particularly with the work of economist Douglass North.

McCloskey is profiled in the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s “Member Spotlight.” "Science is ethical all the way down… How we know things is a deeply ethical procedure.”

Video from NTR HoeZo Internationaal, 7 March 2013. “We have weaker ties—weaker connections with each other—but we have more of them… We still have community in the modern world.”

In Investigaciones de Historia Económica – Economic History Research 9(1), February 2013. “Boldizzoni’s attack on cliometrics is unpersuasive, in part because he does not grasp economics and its uses, in part because he admires uncritically the German Historical School and their modern descendants, the French Annalistes…”