Deirdre McCloskey
"The economy, like science or art, is more like an organism growing uncertainly toward the light than a steel machine repeating exactly today and tomorrow what it did yesterday."
Deirdre McCloskey is an American economist, historian, and rhetorician, trained at Harvard University. Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics, History and English at the University of Illinois, Chicago, McCloskey has written twenty-five books and over 400 scholarly pieces. Her "humanomics" remains one of the most contested and consequential theses in contemporary economic thought.
McCloskey's Bourgeois trilogy — The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, and Bourgeois Equality — won the Manhattan Institute's Hayek Book Prize. She has also received the Adam Smith Prize, the Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Julian Simon Prize. Now, current holder of the Isaiah Berlin Chair in Liberal Thought at the Cato Institute, McCloskey remains one of the most provocative and wide-ranging voices in economics today.
"[B]racingly well-informed and original " — Matt Ridley