McCloskeyWe are thrilled to announce that the prolific economist Dr. Deirdre McCloskey will be delivering the Sunday keynote address at ISFLC  on February 15th from 12:00-1:00 pm, thanks to our friends at the Institute for Humane Studies!

A Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Deirdre McCloskey has written fourteen books and edited seven more, and has published some three hundred and sixty articles on economic theory, economic history, philosophy, rhetoric, feminism, ethics, and law.

She is known as a “conservative” economist, University-of-Chicago style (she taught for 12 years there), but protests that “I’m a literary, quantitative, postmodern, free-market, progressive Episcopalian, Midwestern woman from Boston who was once a man. Not ‘conservative’! I’m a Christian libertarian.”

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