UW-La Crosse will host Deirdre Nansen McCloskey Tuesday, Nov. 8, for a presentation exploring “Why economics can’t explain the coming of the modern world.” The event is scheduled for 4 p.m ...

Darrin M. McMahon’s review of Deirdre Nansen McCloskey’s “Bourgeois Equality” (Bookshelf, June 13) shows that the author’s argument misses what drove a historic rise in global wealth in ...

A man and boy preparing cotton (Photos.com/Getty Images) Let’s be clear ethically. Imperi­alism, as in South Asia, was very bad. Enslaving people, as in West ...

Deirdre McCloskey’s voluminous work over the years spans centuries and disciplines. Combining history, philosophy, and economics, she both looks back on how the West grew so rich in the first ...

Two or three centuries ago a new and equal economic liberty, with a new and equal social dignity, emboldened ordinary people to have a go. The dual change in ethics, first in Holland and then in ...

Economic historian Deirdre McCloskey, author of Bettering Humanomics," argued for a new kind of economics that focuses on science and a better understanding of human action. Javascript must be ...

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 ...

"What we want is a nonslave society, a society without masters," the economic historian Deirdre McCloskey told me late last year at the annual Liberty Forum conference of the Atlas Network ...

The influential American economist Deirdre McCloskey thinks that is to misunderstand 300 years of global growth and enrichment. She focuses on the enduring power of innovation, rather than wealth ...

Evan Davis interviews economic historian Deirdre McCloskey in front of an audience at the London School of Economics, where she argues that poverty matters more than inequality. Show more Evan ...