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Date of Birth
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11-September-1942
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Place of Birth
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Ann Arbor
(Washtenaw County, United States of America, Michigan, Southeast Michigan, Area code 734)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Deirdre McCloskey, Deirdre N McCloskey, Donald McCloskey
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Profession
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Economist, Professor, Writer
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Deirdre N. McCloskey is an American professor who is a Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is also adjunct professor of Philosophy and Classics there, and for five years was a visiting Professor of philosophy at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Since October 2007 she 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. Her main research interests are the origins of the modern world, the misuse of statistical significance in economics and other sciences, the study of capitalism, among many others.
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