...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...

... 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...

...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...

...Sherryl Davis Kasper Frank Knight’s Case for Laissez Faire: The Patrimony of the Social Philosophy of the Chicago School Sherryl Davis Kasper Introduction Both members and observers of the so-called Chicago School of eco- nomics have highlighted the pivotal...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...Ross B. Emmett Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 References Bronfenbrenner , M 1962 . Observations on the “Chicago School.” Journal of Political Economy 70 ( February ): 72 -75. Cantor , N. F 1991 . Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas...

... 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...

...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...

...Malcolm Rutherford Frank Knight and the Chicago School in American Economics . By Emmett Ross B. . London : Routledge , 2009 . xxxi ; 218 pp. $125.00 . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Book Reviews From Political Economy to Economics: Method, the Social...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...