Johnny Rocket Launch Pad-libertarian Rock N' Roll Experience

Our first Year Three Episode with the Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, and Communication Deirdre McCloskey! This week we talk about markets, and how ideas and inventors shape markets, not the government. We also talk with Deidre about the morals of capitalism! An episode filled with information, and some serious kick ass rockabilly from Hot Rod Walt and The Psycho DeVilles!  ​Deirdre Nansen McCloskey taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2000 to 2015 in economics, history, English, and communication. A well-known economist and historian and rhetorician, she has written 17 books and around 400 scholarly pieces on topics ranging from technical economics and statistical theory to transgender advocacy and the ethics of the bourgeois virtues. She is known as a “conservative” economist, Chicago-School style (she taught in the Economics Department there from 1968 to 1980, and in History), but protests that “I’m a literary, quantitative, postmodern, free-market, progressive-Episcopalian,