On episode four our host, John Papola, speaks with author, academic, and historian Deirdre McCloskey. McCloskey describes herself as “a literary, quantitative, postmodern, free-market, progressive-Episcopalian, Midwestern woman from Boston who was once a man.” Needless to say, this is a very interesting and wide-ranging conversation!
Papola and McCloskey unpack economics and philosophy from Deirdre’s unique, historical point of view — including what she’s learned about economic planning. Deirdre also shares the story behind her two great transformations: From Marxism to Classical Liberalism; and from male to female.
More from our guest:
Official Twitter of Her Website
References from this episode:
Mutual Aid a Factor of Evolution by Prince Alekseevich Kropotkin
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis by Ludwig von Mises
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund, & Ola Rosling
The Population Bomb by Paul R Ehrlich
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of living since the Civil War by Robert J. Gordon
If You’re So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise by Deirdre N. McCloskey
Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All by Deirdre N. McCloskey
The Bourgeois Virtues by Deirdre N. McCloskey
Bourgeois Equality by Deirdre N. McCloskey
Bourgeois Dignity by Deirdre N. McCloskey
