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Deirdre N. McCloskey has been since 2000 UIC Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Trained at Harvard as an economist, she has written 16 books and edited seven more, and has published some 360 articles on economic theory, economic history, philosophy, rhetoric, feminism, ethics, and law. She taught for 12 years in Economics at the University of Chicago, and describes herself now as a "postmodern, free-market, quantitative, Episcopalian, feminist Aristotelian." She is best known for her trilogy 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), and Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World (University of Chicago Press, 2016). Before The Bourgeois Virtue, her best-known books were The Rhetoric of Economics (University of Wisconsin Press, 1st ed. 1985, 2nd ed. 1998) and Crossing: A Memoir (University of Chicago Press, 1999), which was a New York Times Notable Book.