Stephen T Ziliak

Berger Seminar and Inaugural Lecture for the University of Kentucky
Quantitative Institute for the Social Sciences (QISS), "The Cult of Statistical
Significance," co-sponsored by QISS and the departments of Economics,
Statistics, and Political Science, Lexington, KY, October 2009
Keynote Address, ―Guinnessometrics,‖ at the 1 st Beeronomics
conference: The Economics of Beer and Brewing, Leuven,
Belgium, May 27-31, 2009 [Address videotaped and published
by Wall Street Journal Europe‘s Educational Division]
Mini-symposium on The Cult of Statistical Significance , June 24,
2008, University Aarhus, Denmark, Center for Research in
Econometric Analysis of Time Series (CREATES).
Invited Lecture, The Cult of Statistical Significance, Post-Graduate
Workshop in Heterodox Economics, Association for Heterodox
Economics, University of Manchester, UK, Feb. 2005.
Plenary Lecture, McCloskey's The Rhetoric of Economics--Twenty
Years Later, Rhetoric and Economics Conference, Millikin
University, June 2005.
Plenary Lecture, The Cult of Statistical Significance, Rhetoric and
Economics Conference, Millikin University, June 2005.
Books
1. (Editor & contributor) Measurement and Meaning in Economics: The Essential
Deirdre McCloskey (Edward Elgar Ltd., 2001); paperback, Jan. 2003;
Economists of the Twentieth Century Series.
Review: John F. Henry, Review of Measurement and Meaning in Economics: The
Essential Deirdre McCloskey, Stephen Ziliak, ed., History of Economics Review, Vol.
35, Winter, 2002.
2. (Lead author) The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs
Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives (University of Michigan Press, 2008), with D. N.
McCloskey.
In the first two years of publication, The Cult of Statistical Significance was
reviewed in at least 26 of the leading journals and at least 30 of the
top science magazines and blogs. Additional reviews, commentary, and
citations may be found at Ziliak‘s website, http://stephentziliak.com.
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