Department of Economics
College of Arts & Sciences

Meet the Faculty

Stephen T. Ziliak, PhD - Professor of Economics

Office: AUD 760
Email: sziliak@roosevelt.edu
Phone: (312)341-3763
Hours: Tue/Thu 2:30-4 & by appointment
Faculty web page

Recent Books

The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey. University of Michigan Press, 2007. How the most important statistical method used in many of the sciences doesn't pass the test for basic common sense. Purchase | About | Preface | Contents

The Economic Conversation: A Dialogical Textbook for Beginners.
Arjo Klamer, Deirdre McCloskey, & Stephen Ziliak.
Palgrave Macmillan: forthcoming.

Ten things you don't (want to?) know about your professor

• 10.  Listens to classical music
• 9.  Adores his children
• 8.  Has French and Irish ancestors
• 7.  Writes haiku about economics
• 6.  Was born near a hiding place of Tom Sawyer
• 5.  Has beaten at basketball (more than once) NFL football Hall of Famer Rod Woodson (Ziliak and Woodson attended the same junior high school)
• 4.  Was a friend and student of the great African American poet Etheridge Knight (1931-1991)
• 3.  Does research in historical archives
• 2.  Has a Ph.D. certificate from the University of Iowa in Rhetorics of the Human Sciences
• 1.  Discovered his love for economics at age 19

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