Deirdre Mc Closkey

Deirdre Mc Closkey

Deirdre N. McCloskey (September 11, 1942, Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American economics professor. Her job title at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication. She is also adjunct professor of Philosophy and Classics at UIC, and was for five years the Tinbergen Distinguished Professor of Economics, Philosophy, History, English, and Arts and Culture, at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Since October 2007 she has received two honorary doctorates.