The Chicago School
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The Chicago School

How the University of Chicago Assembled the Thinkers Who Revolutionized Economics and Business

  1. 432 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Chicago School

How the University of Chicago Assembled the Thinkers Who Revolutionized Economics and Business

About this book

This "admirably detailed and thoroughly welcome history" provides a fascinating examination of a pivotal moment in the evolution of economic theory ( The Economist).
When Richard Nixon said "We are all Keynesians now" in 1971, few could have predicted that the next three decades would result in a complete transformation of the global economic landscape. The transformation was led by a small, relatively obscure group within the University of Chicago's business school and its departments of economics and political science. These thinkers — including Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, George Stigler, Robert Lucas, and others — revolutionized economic orthodoxy in the second half of the 20th century, dominated the Nobel Prizes awarded in economics, and changed how business is done around the world.
Written by a leading European economic thinker, The Chicago School is the first in-depth look at how this remarkable group came together. Exhaustively detailed, it provides a close recounting of the decade-by-decade progress of the Chicago School's evolution. As such, it's an essential contribution to the intellectual history of our time.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. CHAPTER ONE: The Chicago Tradition: “Harper’s Bazaar”
  7. CHAPTER TWO: Chicago’s Pioneers: The Founding Fathers
  8. CHAPTER THREE: The Chicago School Part 1: Stern Taskmasters
  9. CHAPTER FOUR: The Chicago School Part 2: Getting Beckerized
  10. CHAPTER FIVE: The Monetary Side of Chicago: Quantity Country
  11. CHAPTER SIX: The Power of Markets: The Case for Limited Government
  12. CHAPTER SEVEN: The Business School: A Great Economics Department
  13. CHAPTER EIGHT: Law and Economics: Justice Through Efficiency
  14. CHAPTER NINE: Chicago and Politics: A Rare Breed
  15. Epilogue
  16. Bibliography
  17. Notes
  18. Index