Economist Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, professor emeritus of economics and history at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is the new columnist for sheet.
His texts will be published weekly on Tuesdays, on the digital platforms of sheetand on Wednesdays in the print edition, on page A2.
She intends to use her columns to comment on economics, history and politics, using a detached perspective to analyze the facts of newspaper headlines.
“The more real news and sensible opinions people get, the less likely they are to vote for fake politicians and crazy ideologues,” he says.
“I love Brazil, but I don’t speak Portuguese, so my columns will be those of a gringa,” says McCloskey. “But I want Brazil to succeed, and that means helping its lovely citizens to know points of view beyond the false and the crazy.”
With a degree in economics from Harvard, where she also completed her master’s and doctorate, McCloskey was a professor at three universities, always combining economics and history classes.
First at the University of Chicago from 1968 to 1980, then at the University of Iowa, and finally at the University of Illinois.
Owner of a vast scientific production, McCloskey has received dozens of awards and honorary degrees in faculties in several countries. She has published more than 20 books, among which her trilogy on virtue, dignity and bourgeois equality stands out.
Among his main academic contributions are the notion that trade was not the engine of growth, the scientific defense of liberalism and the theory that the great enrichment of societies in the last two centuries resulted from the circulation of ideas, especially liberalism, and not accumulation of capital, institutions or exploitation.
She has also been dedicated to introducing a “humanomic” look, bringing ideas from philosophy, history and literature to economics.
Born in 1942, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has lived most of her life as Donald. She married in 1965, had two children, and separated in 1995, when she decided to gender transition and become a trans woman. The following year, she underwent reassignment surgery.
She tells the story of her transition in the book “Crossing: A Memoir”, published in 1999 and reprinted in 2019 with a new afterword and the title “Crossing: A Transgender Memoir”. .
The English versions of its columns will be available at Folha Internacional.
She replaces the economist Delfim Netto, 93, who became a columnist for sheet on August 20, 1986 and ceases to write regularly on request.
I have over 8 years of experience in the news industry. I have worked for various news websites and have also written for a few news agencies. I mostly cover healthcare news, but I am also interested in other topics such as politics, business, and entertainment. In my free time, I enjoy writing fiction and spending time with my family and friends.
