# Deirdre Mccloskey

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Equalities of Outcome/Opportunity/Permission

When policymakers pursue “equality,” which equality should they pursue? Deirdre McCloskey believes neither "equality of outcome" nor "equality of opportunity" is a great option. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

God in Commerce

What is the proper way for Christians to engage with the world around them? Many theologians believe Christians are called upon to be socialists. Deirdre McCloskey disagrees. Her forthcoming book is God in Commerce. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Peak Human - How openness and institutions shape progress across time

A conversation with Johan Norberg You can find out more about our work, seminars and publications at www.freiheit.org/iaf. Resources mentioned in this episode: Book // Johan Norberg: Peak Human IAF podcast episode with Deirdre McCloskey IAF podcast episode with Lant Pritchett IAF podcast epi…

Freedom or Welfare State? Deirdre McCloskey on the Liberal Choice | IEA Interview

In this Institute of Economic Affairs podcast, Head of Media and Linda Whetstone Scholar Reem Ibrahim interviews Deirdre McCloskey, Isaiah Berlin Chair in Liberal Thought at the Cato Institute and Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics, History, English and Communication at the University of …

Liberalism and the Great Enrichment: Why Ideas, Not Capital, Made the Modern World

Deirdre McCloskey argues the world's jump from $2 to $50 per day in average income came from a radical 18th-century shift: equality of permission, or letting ordinary people have a go at bettering themselves. She traces how liberating human creativity through what she calls the "bourgeois deal" spa…

Violent Saviors: The West’s Conquest of the Rest

In the name of material progress, the West has sought to develop and frequently exploit the less-developed “rest.” William Easterly will draw from 400 years of history—ranging from the conquest of the Americas and the Atlantic slave trade to colonization in Asia and Africa and the invention of the …

What Is The New Right? - Sean Speer

In this episode, Matt speaks with Sean Speer about the rise of the so-called “New Right” and the growing tension between conservatism and classical liberalism. Speer defends a fusionist vision rooted in ordered liberty, pluralism, and institutional restraint, arguing that attempts to use state powe…

The Future of Dynamism

Talking to guest host Pat Lynch, Virginia Postrel discusses her 1998 book, The Future and Its Enemies, and its relevance to today’s political landscape. They also discuss potential impacts of AI, the cultural significance of glamour, cheap clothes, and the Abundance movement. Lynch ends with the qu…

Deirdre McCloskey: Humanomics, Equality of Permission & the Case for Classical Liberalism | S8EP6

Deirdre McCloskey is an economic historian, philosopher, and Distinguished Scholar and chair holder at the Cato Institute in Washington D.C. She did her education at Harvard and taught at the University of Chicago — where Milton Friedman was her colleague — and produced a body of work that fundamen…

Deirdre McCloskey on What Really Caused the Industrial Revolution

Will you be in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday July 15? I will be interviewing Francis Fukuyama about how liberalism should respond to the postliberal threat. Find out more and get your free ticket here! —Yascha Yascha Mounk and Deirdre McCloskey discuss why ideas, not capital accumulation, made the…