When Deirdre McCloskey writes and talks about ideas and innovation this person could well be one of the many.

"Borlaug would later be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the years he had spent shuttling between Mexico City and the Yaqui Valley, growing thousands upon thousands of kinds of wheat, and carefully noting their traits: this kind resisted one type of stem rust, but not another; this kind produced good yields, but made bad bread; and so on.

He couldn't sequence the wheat's DNA to figure out which genes caused which traits, because that technology was decades away.

But he could cross the varieties which had some good traits, and hope that one of the cross-breeds would happen to have all the good traits and none of the bad.

It was painstaking work, but eventually it paid off.

Borlaug produced new kinds of "dwarf" wheat that resisted rust, yielded well, and - crucially - had short stems, so they didn't topple over in the wind."

BBC.COM

The man who saved millions from starvation

SHE IS A BOURGEOIS POLITICAL ECONOMIST WHO OPENLY PROMOTES BOURGEOISIE VALUES AS HER CLASSICAL LIBERAL ETHICS AND POLITICS 
SHE IS AN EARLY TRANSWOMAN WHO TRANSITIONED ABOUT THE SAME TIME
WALTER CARLOS, THE MOOG SYNTHESIZER IMPRESSIO OF BACH, CHANGED TO WENDY CARLOS

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Deirdre McCloskey

DescriptionDeirdre Nansen McCloskey, is the Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is also adjunct professor of Philosophy and Classics there, and for five years was a visiting Professor of philosophy at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Wikipedia

Born: September 11, 1942 (age 76 years), Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Children: Daniel McCloskey

Education: Harvard University (1970), Buckingham Browne & Nichols Upper School

Siblings: Laura A. McCloskey

Deirdre McCloskey - Wikipedia

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Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (born Donald McCloskey, September 11, 1942 in Ann Arbor, Michigan), is the Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).

Doctoral advisor‎: ‎Alexander Gerschenkron

Fields‎: ‎Libertarian economics‎, ‎economic history‎, ...

Known for‎: ‎Economic history of Britain‎; ‎McClos...

Born‎: ‎Donald McCloskey; September 11, 1942 ...

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Deirdre N. McCloskey: Home Page

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Deirdre Nansen McCloskey taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2000 to .... McCloskeyhas drafted a paper “summarizing the core economics and ...

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Books - Deirdre McCloskey

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[How to be a Humane Libertarian: Essays for a New Liberalism. New Haven: Yale University Press, in review, complete manuscript in hand, forthcoming if all ...

Deirdre N McCloskey (@DeirdreMcClosk) | Twitter

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The latest Tweets from Deirdre N McCloskey (@DeirdreMcClosk). Postmodern, quantitative, literary, ex-Marxist, economist, historian, progressive Episcopalian, ...

Deirdre McCloskey - Economics

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This is a bio page for Deirdre McCloskey in the Department of Economics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

An Interview with Deirdre McCloskey, Distinguished Professor Emerita ...

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Feb 10, 2019 - Deirdre McCloskey is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics and of History, University of Illinois at Chicago. She has written 17 books ...

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Deirdre McCloskey on Socialism

Economics Professor Deirdre McCloskey discussed whether being a socialist humane.