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DEIRDRE MCCLOSKEY
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Administration, Liberal Arts and Sciences, M/C 228
829 University Hall
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL 60607

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Deirdre McCloskey is a UIC Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, and English, adjunct in Philosophy and Classics, and Tinbergen Professor of Philosophy, Economics, and Art and Cultural Studies at Erasmusuniversiteit Rotterdam. Her philosophical interests are philosophy and sociology of science, virtue ethics, theology, the rhetoric of philosophy, and the history of social science, especially economics. Her philosophical works, aside from her books in economics and history, include Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics (1994) and The Rhetoric of Economics (1985, reprint 1999). She is working on Bourgeois Virtue, a philosophical and historical study of the ideology of the middling sort.