Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is a contributing editor at Reason. She is emerita professor of economics, history, English, and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All (Yale), Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World (University of Chicago Press), and Beyond Positivism, Behaviorism, and Neoinstitutionalism in Economics (The University of Chicago Press).
Adam Smith's Quiet Christianity
The Scottish thinker's famous friendship with David Hume demonstrates his liberalism, not his atheism.