Dr. Deidre McCloskey | How Growth (Actually) Happened

Tue Feb 10 2026 at 05:30 pm to 07:00 pm UTC-06:00

Memorial Union, Oceti Sakowin Ballroom | Fargo

Challey Institute for Innovation and Growth
Publisher/HostChalley Institute for Innovation and Growth
Dr. Deidre McCloskey | How Growth (Actually) Happened
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Join us for a conversation with Dr. Deirdre McCloskey titled, "How Growth (Actually) Happened" on Tuesday, February 10.
About this Event

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is a distinguished scholar and Isaiah Berlin Chair in Liberal Thought at the Cato Institute. She is also a distinguished professor emerita of economics and of history and professor emerita of English and of communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. After getting her PhD in economics at Harvard, she taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa. She has written 24 books and some 400 academic and popular articles on economic theory, economic history, philosophy, rhetoric, statistical theory, feminism, ethics, and law.

McCloskey’s recent books include The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Capitalism (University of Chicago Press, 2006); Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World (University of Chicago Press, 2010); Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World (University of Chicago Press, 2016); Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All (Yale University Press, 2019); and, with Art Carden, Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: The Bourgeois Deal (University of Chicago Press, 2020).How do I attend?

Dr. Deirdre McCloskey will speak in the Memorial Union, Oceti Sakowin Ballroom. All are invited to join us for the conversation with her at 5:30 p.m., followed by a reception with hors d'oeuvres and refreshments at 7:00 p.m. Parking is available in the visitor parking lots (), and these lots are free to use after 4:30 p.m.

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About the Series

The Menard Family Distinguished Speaker Series hosts world thought leaders to share their ideas with the NDSU community on big questions that explore ways to improve the human condition and create economic opportunity. The Distinguished Speaker Series is sponsored by the Challey Institute thanks to a generous gift by the Menard Family.

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Memorial Union, Oceti Sakowin Ballroom, 1401 Administration Avenue, Fargo, United States

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