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Deirdre N. McCloskey (born Donald McCloskey, September 11, 1942 in Ann Arbor, Michigan)〔(CV )〕 is an American professor who is a Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She is also adjunct professor of Philosophy and Classics there, and for five years was a visiting Professor of philosophy at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Since October 2007 she has received six honorary doctorates. In 2013, she received the Julian L. Simon Memorial Award from the Competitive Enterprise Institute for her work examining factors in history that led to advancement in human achievement and prosperity. Her main research interests include the origins of the modern world, the misuse of statistical significance in economics and other sciences, and the study of capitalism, among many others. ==Career== McCloskey earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Economics at Harvard University. Her dissertation on British iron and steel won in 1973 the David A. Wells Prize.〔McCloskey, Deirdre. (''Measurement and Meaning in Economics: The Essential Deirdre McCloskey'' ), ed. Stephen Thomas Ziliak (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, Mass., USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001), 350.〕 In 1968, McCloskey became an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago, where she stayed for 12 years, gaining tenure as an associate professor in economics in 1975, and an associate professorship in history in 1979. Her work at Chicago is marked by her contribution to the cliometric revolution in economic history, and teaching generations of leading economists Chicago Price Theory, a course which culminated in her book ''The Applied Theory of Price''. In 1979, at the suggestion of Wayne Booth in English at Chicago, she turned to the study of rhetoric in economics. Later at the University of Iowa, McCloskey, the John Murray Professor of Economics and of History (1980–99), published ''The Rhetoric of Economics'' (1985) and co-founded with John S. Nelson, Allan Megill, and others an institution and graduate program, the ''Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry''. McCloskey has authored 16 books and nearly 400 articles in her many fields. Her major contributions have been to the economic history of Britain (19th-century trade, modern history, and medieval agriculture), the quantification of historical inquiry (cliometrics), the rhetoric of economics, the rhetoric of the human sciences, economic methodology, virtue ethics, feminist economics, heterodox economics, the role of mathematics in economic analysis, and the use (and misuse) of significance testing in economics, and recently in her trilogy ''The Bourgeois Era, the origins of the Industrial Revolution''.〔 Her book ''The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce'' was the first of the trilogy, published in 2006. The second, ''Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World'' was published in 2010, and the third, "The Treasured Bourgeoisie: How Markets and Innovation Became Ethical, 1600-1848, and then Suspect" will appear in 2014. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Deirdre McCloskey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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