Rachel McCleary

Rachel Mary McCleary ( born September 29, 1953) is an American Wirtschaftsphilosophin, political scientist and high school teacher.

Career, teaching and research

McCleary studied linguistics and Spanish at Indiana University, which she left a Bachelor of Arts in the direction of Emory University in 1974. There she joined in 1978 to study theology with a Master of Arts from. In 1986, she graduated from the University of Chicago as a Ph.D. in political theory and moral philosophy.

Your first teaching assignment took McCleary in 1986 as a guest lecturer at Georgetown University true. In 1989, she joined as a Lecturer at the Faculty of Politics at Princeton University. In 1992, she went as a Program Officer to the United States Institute of Peace, before she was for research purposes at the Universidad Rafael Landivar 1994. A year later she returned to the Georgetown University, and later went to the Johns Hopkins University. In 2001 she accepted a position at Harvard University. There she was until 2007 Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

McClearys main focus lies in exploring the influence of religion on economics. For this purpose, it is interdisciplinary in the fields of economics, sociology and political science. She also analyzes in particular the relationship between religion and economic growth, political stability and productivity. One focus of research since the beginning of the 1990s, Guatemala. In 1994 she was a Fulbright Research Scholar in the Central American country, and later instructed the state government with the support of the Inter-American Development Bank projects. In the 2000s, she frequently collaborated with Robert J. Barro.

Works

The following list are published by McCleary books again, she also has written numerous journal articles and working papers.

• Seeking Justice: Ethics and International Affairs, 1992
• Dictating Democracy: Guatemala and the End of Violent Revolution, 1999
• Global Compassion: Private Voluntary Organizations and U.S. Foreign Policy since 1939, 2009
• Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion, 2010