Deirdre McCloskey

Deirdre McCloskey, economist, professor and author, will lecture about her latest book, “Bourgeois Dignity,” at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, March 4, in Denison University’s Higley Hall Auditorium (100 Ridge Road). The lecture, sponsored by the Department of Economics, the Queer Studies Program and Omicron Delta Epsilon (the undergraduate academic honorary for economics), is free and open to the public.

McCloskey is Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her scientific work has been on economic history, especially British. She currently is writing a series of four books about the Bourgeois Era. The first was “The Bourgeois Virtues” on Dutch and British economic and social history. McCloskey has written on British economic failure in the 19th century, trade and growth in the 19th century, open field agriculture in the middle ages, the Gold Standard, and the Industrial Revolution.