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Building Chicago economics : new perspectives on the history of America's most powerful economics program /

Title By: Van Horn, Robert, 1978- | Mirowski, Philip, 1951- | Stapleford, Thomas A, 1974-
Material type: BookSeries: Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.Description: xxv, 399 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781107013414Subject(s): Friedman, Milton, 1912-2006 | Chicago school of economics -- History -- 20th century | Free enterprise -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 330.15/53 Online resources: Location Map
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"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"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Blueprints R. Van Horn, P. Mirowski, and T. Stapleford; Orientation: finding the Chicago School J. 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 T. Stapleford; 2. Markets, politics, and democracy at Chicago: taking economics seriously D. 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 P. Burnett; 4. Sharpening tools in the workshop: the workshop system and the Chicago School's success R. Emmett; 5. George Stigler, the graduate school of business, and the pillars of the Chicago School E. Nik-Khah; Part III. Imperial Chicago: 6. Chicago price theory and chicago law and economics: a tale of two transitions S. Medema; 7. Intervening in laissez-faire liberalism: Chicago's shift on patents R. Van Horn and M. Klaes; 8. Allusions to evolution: edifying evolutionary biology rather than economic theory J. Vromen; 9. On the origins (at Chicago) of some species of evolutionary economics P. Mirowski; Part IV. Debating Chicago Neoliberalism: 10. Jacob Viner's critique of Chicago neoliberalism R. Van Horn; 11. The Chicago School, Hayek, and neoliberalism B. Caldwell; 12. The lucky consistency of Milton Friedman's science and politics, 1933-1963 B. Cherrier; 13. Far right of the midway: Chicago neoliberalism and the genesis of the Milton Friedman Institute (2006-2009) E. Nik-Khah.

"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"--

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