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... The Chicago School: How the University of Chicago Assembled Thinkers Who Revolutionized Economics and Business. By Johan Van Overtveldt. Chicago: Agate B2 Books, 2007. 432 pp. $35.00. The title of this ambitious book is somewhat misleading. “School” suggests a group linked by certain common ideas...

...Roger E. Backhouse The Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics . Edited by Emmett Ross B. . Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar , 2010 . xi; 350 pp. Hardback $206.00 ; paperback $55.00 . Building Chicago Economics: New Perspectives on the History of America’s Most...

...J. Daniel Hammond Correspondence may be addressed to J. Daniel Hammond: [email protected] . Where Economics Went Wrong: Chicago’s Abandonment of Classical Liberalism . By Colander David Freedman Craig . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2019 . 267 pp. $27.95...

...George S. Tavlas Abstract Milton Friedman claimed that Jacob Viner's views in the early 1930s on (a) the monetary origins of the Great Depression and (b) the need of expansionary open-market operations established a linkage between the 1930s Chicago monetary tradition and Friedman's monetarist...

... clearer in the lengthier account by C. B. Schedvin (1970). Wil- son meanwhile had earned an Oxford DPhil, and having met Jacob Viner in Oxford, completed a Chicago PhD supervised by Viner, both dissertations on the subject of international capital movements and published in 1931, by which time he had...

...James C. W. Ahiakpor Both the 1932 Harvard and Chicago recommendations for dealing with the Great Depression include vigorous open market purchases by the Fed; federal government deficit spending, including public works, financed by new money creation; reduction in tariffs; and the cancellation...

..., and of the relationships between them, both for the literature of the time, and for later debates about the origins of 1930s Chicago ideas about monetary economics. He is correct to locate these documents in a more general quantity theoretic tradition, but his discussion here is marred by a serious misunderstanding...

...Sebastiano Nerozzi The paper aims at assessing Jacob Viner's role in that brand of monetary thought which historians associate with the Chicago School and whose origins can be retraced in the writings and teaching of Frank Knight, Lloyd Mints, Henry Simons and Viner himself. After a brief...

...Douglas A. Irwin Over the last decade, there has been an outpouring of scholarly research on the Chicago school of economics and its leading figures. This paper provides a selective survey of this research, focusing in particular on (1) the origins of a distinctive Chicago economics in the 1930s...

...George S. Tavlas During the early 1930s University of Chicago economists developed a comprehensive set of policy proposals that presaged those proposed by Fed economists and academics in the aftermath of the 2007–8 financial crisis. Using the quantity-theory framework to analyze the business cycle...

...Douglas Irwin The basic story is this. In 1973, economic chaos under Marxist president Salvador Allende helped spark a military coup. Suddenly vaulted into positions of power, the Chicago Boys persuaded Pinochet to impose shock therapy to reduce inflation and introduce free-market policies more...

...Samuel Demeulemeester [email protected] The Monetarists: The Making of the Chicago Monetary Tradition, 1927–1960 . By George S. Tavlas . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2023 . xviii ; 632 pp. $50.00 . Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024...

... Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. A report on the Chicago Conference of the History of Economics Society The newly formed History...

...Ross Emmett Duke University Press 2007 Banzhaf, H. Spencer. Forthcoming. The Chicago School of Applied Welfare Economics. In The Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics , edited by R. B. Emmett. Cheltenham, U.K.: Elgar. Bronfenbrenner, Martin. 1962 . Observation...

...Jerry Evensky Correspondence may be addressed to Jerry Evensky, Department of Economics, 110 Eggers Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY; e-mail: [email protected] . Duke University Press 2005 Becker, Gary. 1976 . The Economic Approach to Human Behavior . Chicago...

... in the Quantity Theory of Money . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Gordon, Robert J., ed. 1974 . Milton Friedman's Monetary Framework: A Debate with His Critics . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Johnson, Harry. 1962 . Monetary Theory and Policy. American Economic Review 52 (June): 325 -84...

... Groenewegen,Donald Mog- gridge,Robert Skidelsky,Rita McWilliams Tullberg,John Whitaker,et alher book is a welcome addition to that literary store. A. W. Bob Coats,University of Nottingham Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond. By Robert H...

... 1983 by Duke University Press Jacob Vier and the Chicago tradition Eugene Rotwein Jacob Viner was one of the leading figures in the early Chicago School of Economics, which, although now differently constituted, has persisted as an influential school of thought down...

... . 1986 . Liberty, Market and State . Brighton, Sussex: Wheatsheaf. Friedman , Milton . 1962 . Capitalism and Freedom . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Gonce , R. A. 1972 . Frank H. Knight on Social Control and the Scope and Method of Economics. Southern Economic Journal 38...

...Stefan Kolev; Ekkehard A. Köhler Abstract This article depicts the parallel evolution of the political economies of the “Old Chicago” and Freiburg schools. Both communities within the “laissez-faire within rules” research program and the long-standing “thinking in orders” tradition emerged during...