On Tuesday night at AEI, Deirdre McCloskey and George Will discussed Dr. McCloskey’s concluding volume of her trilogy, “Bourgeois Equality” (University of Chicago Press, 2016). From her presentation ...

Why did the Industrial Revolution happen when and where it did? Deirdre McCloskey explores the notion that equality—both legal and social—allowed for an explosion of innovations in 17th century Europe ...

In a time of populist upheaval, classical liberalism has come under fire from many directions. In her new book “Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous ...

Economists are famously abstract: They seem to prefer to examine the world through the lens of elegant mathematical models. But Deirdre McCloskey, a professor of economics, English, and history at the ...

Twenty years ago, Donald McCloskey, a brash and brilliant economist at the University of Iowa, surprised the academic world (and his family) by transitioning to Deirdre. In a 1996 profile in The ...

At 11 years old Deirdre McCloskey recalls asking God for two things. "I would fall asleep praying that the following morning that I would not stutter and that I would be a girl," she said. "And at age ...

Our conversation today deals with what the extraordinary historian and economist Deirdre McCloskey calls "The Great Enrichment"—the unprecedented rise in personal incomes that began two centuries ago.

[ROBERT KAESTNER] “Smart move, although the bidding process may have been faulty. Paying the true market value for parking spaces will help people make better decisions regarding transportation ...

W illiam Shakespeare, an excitable Norwich terrier, keeps wary watch from the top of the steps, near the voluminous shelves, the reading futon, and the two standing desks. At the bottom landing, ...

In a time of populist upheaval, classical liberalism has come under fire from many directions. Many are concerned that it is based off of exploitation and promotes inequality. Others focus on those ...