Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, a well-known economist and historian and rhetorician, has written eighteen books and several hundred scholarly pieces on topics ranging from technical economics and statistics to the ethics of the bourgeois virtues. Her latest book, Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World (University of Chicago Press, 2016), is the third in a trilogy (2006, 2010). It identifies the egalitarian liberalism of Voltaire and Smith and Mill as the cause of the explosion of commercially tested betterment after 1800, and the cultural enrichment of the world. A new book, How to Be a Humane Libertarian: Essays in a New Liberalism, will be published by Yale in 2019.