Born "Donald" Sept 11, 1942, Ann Arbor, Michigan; married 1965-95; divorced; children: Daniel (b. 1969); Margaret (b. 1975); gender change November 1995, GRS June 1996.
University Professor of the Human Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1999-present (Professor of History and of Economics)
Tinbergen Distinguished Professor, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1997-present
Faculty, Summer School of EDAMBA (European Doctoral Programmes Association for Management and Business Administration), Auch, France, 1997-present
Office: c/o Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, University Hall, MC 228, 601 S. Morgan, Chicago, IL 60607-7104.
Home: 720 S. Dearborn, #206, Chicago, IL 60605.
Professor of History, University of Iowa, 1980-99
Professor of Economics, University of Iowa, 1980-99
John F. Murray Chair in Economics, University of Iowa, 1984-99
Tinbergen Visiting Professor of Economics, Philosophy, and Art and Cultural Studies, Erasmus University, Jan-Jan 1996.
Honorary Simon Fellow, Department of History, University of Manchester, England, May-June 1992.
Fellow, Bellagio Study Center, Rockefeller Foundation, July 14-August 16, 1991: open fields.
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of York, England, May-June 1985 and 1986.
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, academic 1983-1984.
Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University (rhetoric of economics; open fields); visiting Lecturer, Department of Economic History, Faculties, ANU, May-August, 1982.
Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago, 1979-1980, tenured.
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, 1973-1980; tenured 1975.
Honorary Research Fellow, Department of History, Birkbeck College, University of London; Academic Visitor, London School of Economics, Sept, 1975-July, 1976.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford University, spring 1972.
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, 1968-1973.
B.A. Economics, Harvard College, 1964; Ph.D. Economics, Harvard University, 1970
Summer School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth 1988.
Summer School in Law for Economics Professors, Dartmouth 1990.
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1983.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1984.
May Brodbeck Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Iowa, 1987-1988.
Phi Beta Kappa Lecturer, 1992-93.
Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, Aug-Dec 1999.
Distinguished Visiting Faculty Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California at Riverside, Jan-June 2000.
National Science Foundation, on The Enclosure of English Open Fields, 1975-1980, some $40,000.
National Science Foundation, on reading in economics, 1987-1989, $45,000.
National Endowment for the Humanities grant for support of humanists in the Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry, $150,000, 1989-1993.
National Science Foundation, on the historical extent of the market, 1992-1993, $85,000.
Chair, Department of Economics, University of Iowa, 1981 and 1982.
Director, Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry (Poroi), University of Iowa, 1985-1999 (Honorary Founding Director, 2000-present).
University: Search for Academic Vice-President (Chair 1988-89); University Advancement (1988-89); Institutional Audit (1988-89); Faculty Senate (1986-89); Review for the Department of English (1985); Editorial Board, University of Iowa Press (1984-87; Chair 1986-87); Selection of Faculty Scholars (1980, 1986); Faculty Welfare 1992-93; Research Council 1995, 1997-99.
College of Liberal Arts: Executive (1985-88); Educational Policy (1989-92; secretary 1990); Unified Program (1988-97).
Economics: Recruiting and Advisory (1980, 84, 85, 86, 89, 91, 92); Undergraduate (1980, 1992-93); Placement Director (1984-85).
History: African History Search, 1984-85; Russian History Search, 1985-86; Chair, Departmental Self-study, 1994.
Director of Graduate Studies, Economics 1976-80; Committee on Public Policy Studies 1979-80; Social Science Collegiate Division governing committee 1974-80; Chair, Galler Prize, Division of the Social Sciences 1977-79; board member and sometime Acting Director, Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences 1976-80.
Co-editor (with John Nelson and John Lyne; David Depew and John Peters)), Wisconsin University Press, book series on The Rhetoric of Inquiry, 1990 - ; twenty books in print.
Co-editor (with John Nelson), University of Chicago Press, New Practices of Inquiry, 1990 - ; six books in print.
Co-editor (overlapping with R. Sylla 1980-1984 and with C. Goldin 1984-1986), Journal of Economic History, 1980-1986.
Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1986-1987.
Contributing Editor, Critical Review, 1990 - ;
Contributing Editor, Reason.
Journal of Economic History, 1974-1979; Explorations in Economic History, 1974-1980; American review editor of Economic History Review, 1976-1979; Economics and Philosophy, 1983-1996; Journal of British Studies, 1983-1991; Economic Inquiry, 1985-1991; Reason 1992- ; Journal of Economic Method 1993-1998 ; Feminist Economics 1994 - ; American Economic Review, 1997-1998.
Mathematical Social Sciences Board, NSF, for British economic history, Sept 1970.
NSF and British Social Science Research Council, two conferences on British economic history (Sept 1972-August 1974); with R. Floud.
British SSRC (with R. Floud), on preliminary chapters in a new economic history of England.
National Science Foundation, a series of annual "Cliometrics Conferences" (jointly with P. Lindert for 1977 and 1978; alone for 1979, 1980, and 1981; jointly with S. Williamson 1982-1986).
National Endowment for the Humanities, Iowa Humanities Board, and University of Iowa (with J. Nelson and A. Megill), on the rhetoric of the human sciences, 1984.
National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, and the National Science Foundation (with A. Klamer and R. Solow), for the rhetoric of economics, Apr 1986.
Russell Sage Foundation (with A. Megill), Sociology of Knowledge and the Rhetoric of Inquiry, Oct 1987.
Liberty Fund, the Rhetoric of Liberty, Montana, Oct, 1990.
and a dozen or so others.
Lecturer, Murphy Institute of Political Economy and Policy Analysis: The Boundaries of Economics (Tulane University, Mar 1985).
Institute for Humane Studies, Distinguished Scholars Interdisciplinary Lectures (George Mason University, Feb 1986).
Thomas E. Sutherland Fellow (University of Michigan Law School, Mar 1986).
Franklin Lectures in Science and the Humanities (Auburn University, Apr 1986).
Schmidt-Fellner Lecture (Colby college, Sept 1986).
C. Woody Thompson Memorial Lecture (Midwest Economics Association, St. Louis, Mar 26, 1987).
Miller Lecture, University of Illinois, May 6, 1987 (cosponsored by departments of Accountancy, Business Administration, Economics, Educational Policy Studies, English, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, Political Science, Speech Communication, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory).
Norman Freehling Professorship, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Sept 1989.
Carl Snyder Memorial Lecture, Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Mar 1990.
Keynote address, Pennsylvania State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, July 1992.
Phi Beta Kappa Lecturer, academic year 1992-1993 (two-day appearances at University of Arkansas, University of Dallas, Mary Washington College, Randolph-Macon Women's College, University of Virginia, Purdue University, Denison University, Agnes Scott College, Kansas State University, University of Notre Dame, Clark University, Luther College).
Named annual lectures at University of South Dakota (Oct 20-22, 1993), Hillsdale College (Apr 17-18, 1994), Williams College (Nov 1994, and keynote address at Southern Economic Association, Nov 1994).
others in recent years: numerous.
Thesis supervisions and thesis committees in Economics, numerous; in History, Sociology, and Business
Economics: British Economic History (graduate and undergraduate Economics 348/History 245), 1969-1979, annual; American Economic history (undergraduate Economics 220/History 377), 1969-1979, as required; Workshop in Economic history (graduate, organizer), 1972-1980; Price Theory I (graduate Economics 300), 1969-1979, annual; Introduction to Economics (undergraduate Economics 200), 1969-1979, nearly annual; Econography (How to Write in Economics), non-credit graduate seminar, three times.
Other: Business History (Graduate School of Business 404, first such course), once, 1979; Economics for Public Policy (graduate Program in Public Policy Studies, Public Policy 300), 1978-1979; Freedom and Authority (undergraduate, Social Science 113), 1968; Quantitative Methods for Social Sciences (graduate), once, 1970.
Numerous thesis supervisions and committee service in Economics and in History; service on three thesis committees in Communication Studies; two in Geography; one in English.
Economics: Microeconomics (Economics 103, undergrad) 1980, 1987, fall 1992; Introductory Micro Economics (undergrad; 450 students: joint with Albrecht, Daly, and Nordquist) 1982, 1986, singly spring 1993); Introductory Macro Economics (undergrad, 80 students, joint with Arjo Klamer), 1988; 430 students joint with A. Klamer 1989; Economics for Poets spring 1994; Law and Economics (undergrad) spring 1994; Price Theory for Graduate Students, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1990; Philosophy of Economics (grad) 1983, 1985, fall 1990, fall 1991.
History: Quantitative methods of Historians (grad), 1982, fall 1990; Western Civilization, 1750-present (undergrad, 430 students), 1988, 1989, spring 1991, fall 1991, spring 1994; Philosophy of History (graduate, spring 1997); Modern British Survey, 1750-1867, spring 1995, spring 1997; 1867-Present, spring 1998.
Crosslisted History and Economics: the New Economic History (grad history and economics seminar) 1980, 1988; British Economic History (undergrad), 1982; American Economic History (undergrad) 1984, 1985, 1992; 1997, 1999; Introduction to World Economic History (undergrad) fall 1993; graduate seminar in economic history and rhetoric ("the Sunday Seminar") 1991-present with a dozen students in History, Economics, and Geography; Bourgeois Virtue, undergraduate and graduate, 1997-98.
Interdisciplinary Courses at Iowa:
Literature, Science and the Arts (undergraduate): The Good Society (with David Hamilton [English], spring 1986); Capitalism and Romance (with Donald Marshall [English]), spring 1989); Greek and Modern Science (with Marlena Corcoran [English] and Steven Spangler [Physics]), fall 1993; Bourgeois Virtue (with Marlena Corcoran), fall 1994; two-day intensive course on Gender Crossing [Sexuality Studies, with Michelle Eliason, spring 1999]; (with Colin Bell), Business Ethics (1994,95).
Other Unified Program Course (see also Economics above); Western Civilization I (fall 1990)
Rhetoric of Inquiry (grad, with John Lyne [Communication Studies], spring 1989);
Rhetoric of Inquiry (grad, with John Nelson [Political Science], fall 1994.
Fall 1999, Bourgeois Virtue (graduate interdisciplinary seminar); fall 2000, World Economic History (graduate interdisciplinary)
Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University, August 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000: The Economics of Art (with Arjo Klamer, Judith Mehta, Jack Amariglio).
EDAMBA, Château de Bonas, Castéra-Verduzan, Near Auch, France, July 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000: The Rhetoric of Management.
Erasmus University of Rotterdam, 1996: The Words of Science (with Uskali Mäki); Bourgeois Virtue; Economic History (all: mixed undergraduate/graduate).
University of York, May-June, 1985-1986: Topics in American Economic and Social History, 1985, 1986 (undergrad); Problem Solving in Price Theory, 1985, 1986 (undergrad).
Australian National University, summer, 1982: Topics in Cliometric History (undergrad).
Stanford University, spring, 1972: British Economic History (undergrad).
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[1] Economic Maturity and Entrepreneurial Decline: British Iron and Steel, 1870-1913. Harvard Economic Studies. Harvard University Press, 1973. (David A. Wells Prize.)
[2] Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain: Essays in Historical Economics. Allen and Unwin, 1981; reprinted 1993 by Gregg Revivals (Godstone, Surrey, England).
Econometric History, for the British Economic History Society. Macmillan U.K., 1987. Trans. into Japanese 1992.
[3] The Applied Theory of Price. Macmillan, 1982; second revised edition, 1985. International student edition 1985; Spanish trans. Teoria de Precios Aplicada (Mexico: CECSA: Compania Editorial Continental, S. A.), 1990. Czech trans. Aplikovaná Teorie Ceny (Praha: Státni pedagogické, 1993).
[6] The Writing of Economics. NY: Macmillan, 1986, a 90-page libellus from the article "Economical Writing" below. Second Revised Edition as Economical Writing, Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press, 1999.
[4] The Rhetoric of Economics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. British edition: Wheatsheaf 1986. Italian translation: La Retorica dell' Economia: Scienza e letturatura nel discorso economico, with an introduction by Augusto Graziani (Torino: Giulio Einaudi, 1988; trans. Bianca Maria Testa; series Nuovo Politecnico no. 165); Spanish (Alianza, 1990); Japanese (Harvest Sha 1992). Second Revised Edition, 1998. Hungarian translation, Europa Publishing, forthcoming 2000. Chinese translation said to be forthcoming.
[5] If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise. University of Chicago Press, 1990; paperback Spring 1992. Spanish translation Si eres tan listo: La narrativa de los expertos en economía (Madrid: Alianza 1993), trans. Graciela Sylvestre and Victoriano Martin. Chinese Translation said to be forthcoming, Chien Hua Publishing. (Chapter 11 reprinted in Daniel Klein, ed., What Do Economists Contribute?, Macmillan Press, 1998.)
[10] Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics. Cambridge University Press 1994.
[220]The Vices of Economists; The Virtues of the Bourgeoisie. University of Amsterdam Press and University of Michigan Press, 1997.
How to Be Human* *Though an Economist. Forthcoming, University of Michigan Press, 2000.
A reworking of four dozen of the shorter pieces below that concern the profession of economist' advice to young economists, stories of Great Economists I Have Known, and criticisms of the field for its devotion to blackboard proof and mechanical use of statistical significance
[225] Crossing: A Memoir. University of Chicago Press, 1999. Named December 1999 among New York Times "Notable Books of 1999." Excerpts published in Reason magazine (December 1999); Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, Jan 30, 2000. Japanese translation, Bungie Shunju Ltd. forthcoming 2001. Movie rights under negotiation.
[12] Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain after 1840. Methuen, 1971; and Princeton University Press, 1971.
[13] [with Roderick Floud] The Economic History of Britain, 1700-Present. 2 vols. Cambridge University Press, 1981; second revised edition (3 vols.) 1994.
[16] [with George Hersh, Jr.] A Bibliography of Historical Economics to 1980. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
[18] Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of U.S. Economic History. Oxford University Press, 1992. Paperback 1994.
[14] [with John Nelson and Allan Megill] The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences: Language and Argument in Scholarship and Public Affairs. University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
[15] [with Arjo Klamer and Robert Solow] The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
[21] "Productivity Change in British Pig Iron, 1870-1939," Quarterly Journal of Economics 82 (May 1968): 281-96.
[100] "Review of Birch's British Iron and Steel," Business History Review 43 (Fall 1969): 412-14.
[123] "The British Iron and Steel Industry" Journal of Economic History 29 (Mar 1969): 173-75.
[22] "Did Victorian Britain Fail?" Economic History Review 23 (Dec 1970): 446-59.
[23] (a.) "Victorian Growth: A Rejoinder [to Derek Aldcroft]," Economic History Review 27 (May 1974): 275-77
[ 24] (b.) "No It Did Not: A Reply to Craft [to his Comment on 'Did Victorian Britain Fail'?]" Economic History Review 32 (Nov 1979): 538-41.
[25] (c.) "A Counterfactual Dialogue with William Kennedy on Late Victorian Failure or the Lack of It," pp. 119-126 in McCloskey, Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain 1981 [1993].
[26] (d.) "Discussion" (of William Kennedy and William Phillips), Journal of Economic History 42 (Mar 1982): 117-118.
"[28a] International Differences in Productivity? Coal and Steel in America and Britain Before World War I," in Essays on a Mature Economy (1971), cited above, Chapter. 8, pp. 285-304.
[ 29b] "An Exchange with David Landes," pp. 305-309, in Essays on a Mature Economy (1971).
[29] [with L.G. Sandberg] "From Damnation to Redemption: Judgments on the Late Victorian Entrepreneur," Explorations in Economic History 9 (Fall 1971): 89-108
[109] "Review of Sandberg's Lancashire in Decline," Journal of Political Economy 84 (Feb 1976): 198-200.
[113] "Review of Hannah's The Rise of the Corporate Economy: The British Experience," American Historical Review 82 (Dec, 1977): 1258