Deirdre McCloskey is UIC
Professor of Economics, History,
English, and Communication at the
University of Illinois at Chicago and
regular visiting professor of
Philosophy, Economics, and Art and
Cultural Studies at Erasmus
University of Rotterdam. The author
of a dozen books on economics,
rhetoric, ethics, and British history,
she is writing a four-volume work on
the history and ethics of the
bourgeoisie. She has taught at the
Universities of Chicago and Iowa, and
in England and Australia. Her most
recent book is a pamphlet, The Secret
Sins of Economics (2003). Her Crossing:
A Memoir was a New York Times
Notable Book in 1999.