Deirdre McCloskey, author of The Bourgeois Era series, speaks to ieaTV about inequality, the amazing growth in the wealth of the working class over the past three hundred years and how wealth and commerce has been viewed over the centuries.

Deirdre is the Distinguished Professor in English, Economics, History and Communication at the University of Illinois. As a self-described ‘postmodern free-market quantitative Episcopalian feminist Aristotelian’, she has worked on numerous areas of economic history, including British economic ‘failures’ during the 19th Century. She has written fourteen books and edited another seven.