Deirdre McCloskey es Profesora Emérita Distinguida de Economía e Historia, y Profesora Emérita de Inglés y Comunicación, adjunta en Clásicos y Filosofía, en la Universidad de Illinois en Chicago. Formada en Harvard en la década de 1960 como economista, ha escrito veinticuatro libros y unos cuatrocientos artículos académicos y populares sobre historia económica, retórica, filosofía, teoría estadística, teoría económica, feminismo, estudios queer, liberalismo, ética y derecho. Enseñó 1968-1980 en la Universidad de Chicago en el Departamento de Economía. Entre sus obras más famosas se encuentran la trilogía “La era burguesa” ( 2006, 2010, 2016), así como “The Rhetoric of Economics” (1985), “If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise” (1990), “Crossing: A Memoir” (1999), y con Stephen Ziliak “The Cult of Statistical Significance” (2008).

Deirdre McCloskey is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics and of History, and Professor Emerita of English and of Communication, adjunct in classics and philosophy, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Trained at Harvard in the 1960s as an economist, she has written twenty-four books and some four hundred academic and popular articles on economic history, rhetoric, philosophy, statistical theory, economic theory, feminism, queer studies, liberalism, ethics, and law. She taught 1968–80 at the University of Chicago in the Economics Department during its glory days, but now describes herself as a “literary, quantitative, postmodern, free-market, progressive-Episcopalian, ex-marxoid, Midwestern woman from Boston who was once a man. Not ‘conservative’! I’m a Christian classical liberal." She is well known for her 2019 “Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All”, and her massive economic, historical, and literary trilogy “The Bourgeois Era” (2006, 2010, 2016), as well as for “The Rhetoric of Economics” (1985), “If You’re So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise” (1990), “Crossing: A Memoir” (1999; 2019 with an Afterword), and with Stephen Ziliak “The Cult of Statistical Significance” (2008).