Description
Over the past forty years, economists associated with the University of Chicago have won more than one-third of the Nobel prizes awarded in their discipline and have been major influences on American public policy. Building Chicago Economics presents the first collective attempt by social science historians to chart the rise and development of the Chicago School during the decades that followed the Second World War. Drawing on new research in published and archival sources, contributors examine the people, institutions and ideas that established the foundations for the success of Chicago economics and thereby positioned it as a powerful and controversial force in American political and intellectual life.
Table of Contents
Blueprints Robert Van Horn, Philip Mirowski and Thomas Stapleford; Orientation: finding the Chicago School Jaime Peck; Part I. Economics Built for Policy: The Legacy of Milton Friedman: 1. Positive economics for democratic policy: Milton Friedman, institutionalism, and the science of history Thomas Stapleford; 2. Markets, politics, and democracy at Chicago: taking economics seriously J. Daniel Hammond; Part II. Constructing the Institutional Foundations of the Chicago School: 3. The price is not right: Theodore W. Schultz, policy planning, and agricultural economics in the cold-war United States Paul Burnett; 4. Sharpening tools in the workshop: the workshop system and the Chicago School's success Ross B. Emmett; 5. George Stigler, the graduate school of business, and the pillars of the Chicago School Edward Nik-Khah; Part III. Imperial Chicago: 6. Chicago price theory and Chicago law and economics: a tale of two transitions Steven Medema; 7. Intervening in laissez-faire liberalism: Chicago's shift on patents Robert Van Horn and Matthias Klaes; 8. Allusions to evolution: edifying evolutionary biology rather than economic theory Jack Vromen; 9. On the origins (at Chicago) of some species of evolutionary economics Philip Mirowski; Part IV. Debating Chicago Neoliberalism: 10. Jacob Viner's critique of Chicago neoliberalism Robert Van Horn; 11. The Chicago School, Hayek, and neoliberalism Bruce Caldwell; 12. The lucky consistency of Milton Friedman's science and politics, 1933–63 Béatrice Cherrier; 13. Far right of the midway: Chicago neoliberalism and the genesis of the Milton Friedman Institute (2006–9) Edward Nik-Khah.
