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Deirdre McCloskey

1942 - Today

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Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (born Donald N. McCloskey; September 11, 1942) is an American economist and academic who has taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago since 2000, where she serves as a professor of economics, history, English, and communication. She is also an adjunct professor of philosophy and classics at UIC, and for five years was a visiting professor of philosophy at Erasmus University, Rotterdam.Since October 2007, McCloskey 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Deirdre McCloskey has received more than 558,948 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Deirdre McCloskey is the 274th most popular economist (down from 251st in 2019), the 5,661st most popular biography from United States (up from 5,737th in 2019) and the 88th most popular American Economist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Deirdre McCloskey ranks 274 out of 315. Before her are Beatrice Webb, Arthur Laffer, Haruhiko Kuroda, Mark Blaug, James Wolfensohn, and Gordon Tullock. After her are Max O. Lorenz, Esther Duflo, Nouriel Roubini, Robert Barro, Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, and Fakhruddin Ahmed.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Deirdre McCloskey ranks 397. Before her are Derek Parfit, Wojciech Pszoniak, János Farkas, Brandon deWilde, Rubén Salazar Gómez, and Marcia Wallace. After her are Paco Peña, Roger McGuinn, Chris Hani, Danièle Thompson, Guo Boxiong, and Michael Mann.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Deirdre McCloskey ranks 5,661 out of 18,182. Before her are John Lee Hancock (1956), David Geffen (1943), Michael Cudlitz (1964), Chloë Grace Moretz (1997), Stuart Gordon (1947), and Henry M. Leland (1843). After her are Max O. Lorenz (1876), Ben Adams (1890), John J. McCloy (1895), Janice Dickinson (1955), Norman Spinrad (1940), and Jon Huntsman Jr. (1960).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Deirdre McCloskey ranks 88. Before her are Leo Huberman (1903), Ellen Swallow Richards (1842), Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874), Paul Sweezy (1910), Arthur Laffer (1940), and Gordon Tullock (1922). After her are Max O. Lorenz (1876), Robert Barro (1944), Michael Kremer (1964), Seth Godin (1960), Lawrence Summers (1954), and Anna Schwartz (1915).

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