Dierdre McCloskey to speak on Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments
As part of the Department of Economics Visiting Speaker Series in
Political Economy and the Contemporary Issues Forum, we are very
pleased to have Professor Deirdre
N. McCloskey, Distinguished Professor of Economics, History,
English and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago on
campus Tuesday through Thursday of next week. Professor McCloskey will
be giving a public lecture entitled "Adam Smith as a Virtue
Ethicist" on Wednesday, September 24th at 7:30pm in Hepburn
Auditorium. She will also be a guest in a number of courses on
campus in the Economics, History, Gender Studies, Philosophy, and
Performance and Communication Arts departments.
Early in her career, Professor McCloskey established herself a world-class economic historian, which led her to an interest in the rhetoric of persuasion in economics and then to literary and social theory. She is the author of 14 books and the editor of 7 others, and has written over 360 articles on a variety of topics. Her most recent book is The Bourgeois Virtues, in which she argues that whatever its flaws, capitalism has not only made us richer, it has enabled us to be virtuous in a variety of ways that its critics have often overlooked.
Her talk on "Adam Smith as a Virtue Ethicist" kicks off our Speaker Series' year-long celebration of the 250th anniversary of the publication of Smith's "other" book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Future speakers will be addressing a variety of issues related to Smith's contributions to economics and other areas, concluding with our own Jeff Young's Piskor Lecture "Justice, Property and Markets: Economics as Moral Philosophy" in the spring.
Early in her career, Professor McCloskey established herself a world-class economic historian, which led her to an interest in the rhetoric of persuasion in economics and then to literary and social theory. She is the author of 14 books and the editor of 7 others, and has written over 360 articles on a variety of topics. Her most recent book is The Bourgeois Virtues, in which she argues that whatever its flaws, capitalism has not only made us richer, it has enabled us to be virtuous in a variety of ways that its critics have often overlooked.
Her talk on "Adam Smith as a Virtue Ethicist" kicks off our Speaker Series' year-long celebration of the 250th anniversary of the publication of Smith's "other" book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Future speakers will be addressing a variety of issues related to Smith's contributions to economics and other areas, concluding with our own Jeff Young's Piskor Lecture "Justice, Property and Markets: Economics as Moral Philosophy" in the spring.