Stephen T. Ziliak
Trustee and Professor of Economics Roosevelt University, College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Economics
Chicago phone: 312-341-3763
Chicago room: AUD760
Chicago fax: 312-341-3762 Email: sziliak@roosevelt.edu Personal website: http://stephentziliak.com
Stephen T. Ziliak is a Trustee and Professor of Economics at Roosevelt University, Chicago. His previous appointments include Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was voted “Faculty Member of the Year” (in 2002) and “Most Intellectual Professor” (in 2003). At the University of Iowa he earned (in 1996) the Ph.D. in Economics and, at the same time, the Ph.D. Certificate in the Rhetoric of the Human Sciences. His research has appeared in many leading journals, including Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, The Lancet, Poetry, Biological Theory, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Economic Methodology, Significance (a magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association), and the International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, and he has new articles forthcoming in, for example, the Journal of Wine Economics and the International Journal of Forecasting. He is the lead author of The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives (2008) a best-selling book at the University of Michigan Press, with Deirdre N. McCloskey; with McCloskey and Arjo Klamer he is co-author of The Economic Conversation, an evolving textbook and blog, emphasizing dialogue and openness; and he edited Measurement and Meaning in Economics: The Essential Deirdre McCloskey (2001). An Associate Editor of Historical Statistics of the United States (Cambridge), Ziliak’s work has been featured in Science, Nature, The Economist, Poetry, Wall Street Journal, BBC, NPR, Chronicle of Higher Education, Financial Times, New York Times, and the Supreme Court of the United States. He has published extensively on statistical significance vs. practical importance; random vs. balanced designs of experiments; Ronald A. Fisher; William S. Gosset (aka “Student”); Guinness beer and Guinnessometrics; welfare, charity, and poverty; dialogue and pluralism in economics education; the rhetoric of economics; haiku economics; and the history and philosophy of science and statistics.
In 2010 Ziliak was appointed to several international committees, including the Economics Curriculum Committee Task Force of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and, in addition, the Scientific Committee of the second Beeronomics Conference on the economics of beer and brewing. He is a founding member of the World Economics Association.
CV (downloadable pdf): Curriculum Vitae_ Stephen T Ziliak_ April 2012
