What should I ask Deirdre McCloskey? Thursday 10am Pacific

by Jason Crawford · June 30, 2020 · 1 min read

What should I ask Deirdre McCloskey, author of the Bourgeois Era trilogy? I interview her on Thursday for “The Torch of Progress”, the speaker series of Progress Studies For Young Scholars.

Deirdre N. McCloskey has been since 2000 UIC Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Trained at Harvard as an economist, she has written twenty books and edited seven more, and has published some four hundred articles on economic theory, economic history, philosophy, rhetoric, feminism, ethics, and law. She taught for twelve years in Economics at the University of Chicago, and describes herself now as a “postmodern free-market quantitative Episcopalian feminist Aristotelian.”

Info & free registration here.

Other upcoming events (all times Pacific):

• Joel Mokyr, author of A Culture of Growth and The Gifts of Athena: Wed, Jul 8, 10am
• Noor Siddiqui, Thiel fellow & founder of biotech startup Orchid Bioscience: Wed, Jul 15, 10am (link coming soon)
• Anton Howes, author of Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation: Wed, Jul 22, 10am (link coming soon)

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