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Deirdre McCloskey

1942 - Today

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Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (born Donald Nansen McCloskey; September 11, 1942) is an American economist and academic. Since 2023 she has been a Distinguished Scholar and holder of the Isaiah Berlin Chair in Liberal Thought at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. From 2000 to 2015, she taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she was Distinguished Professor of Economics History, and Professor of English and Communication. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Deirdre McCloskey has received more than 585,878 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Deirdre McCloskey is the 300th most popular economist (down from 271st in 2019), the 6,420th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,649th in 2019) and the 98th most popular American Economist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Deirdre McCloskey ranks 300 out of 414. Before her are Yulia Navalnaya, Philippe Van Parijs, Pedro Solbes, Gottfried Haberler, Michael Kremer, and Ladislaus Bortkiewicz. After her are Mark Blaug, Karl Knies, David Landes, Charles P. Kindleberger, Anna Schwartz, and Pietro Verri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Deirdre McCloskey ranks 446. Before her are Michael Mann, Dith Pran, Patricia Bath, Rutanya Alda, Mamoni Raisom Goswami, and Jim Keltner. After her are Driss Bamous, Lutz D. Schmadel, Enrique Morente, Michael Gwisdek, Antoni Piechniczek, and Gloria E. Anzaldúa.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Deirdre McCloskey ranks 6,420 out of 20,380. Before her are Jack Coleman (1958), Jakob Dylan (1969), Randy Brecker (1945), Leonard Warren (1911), Rod Serling (1924), and Dominique Dunne (1959). After her are James J. Jeffries (1875), Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806), Bob Bondurant (1933), Bill Sharman (1926), Jay Miner (1932), and Russell M. Nelson (1924).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Deirdre McCloskey ranks 98. Before her are Gordon Tullock (1922), Herman Daly (1938), Max O. Lorenz (1876), Anthony Downs (1930), Seth Godin (1960), and Michael Kremer (1964). After her are David Landes (1924), Charles P. Kindleberger (1910), Anna Schwartz (1915), Anne Osborn Krueger (1934), Walter Block (1941), and Lawrence Summers (1954).

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