Building Chicago Economics

New Perspectives on the History of America's Most Powerful Economics Program
Herausgeber: Horn, Robert Van; Stapleford, Thomas A.; Mirowski, Philip

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a collective attempt to chart the rise and development of the Chicago School during the decades that followed WWII.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 454
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 732g
• ISBN-13: 9781107616431
• ISBN-10: 1107616433
• Artikelnr.: 39304088

Inhaltsangabe

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.