Building Chicago Economics

by Van Horn, Rob; Mirowski, Philip; Stapleford, Thomas A.

• ISBN13: 9781107013414
• ISBN10: 1107013410
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-17
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Robert Van Horn is assistant professor of economics at the University of Rhode Island. Philip Mirowski is Carl Koch professor of economics and the history and philosophy of science at the University of Notre Dame. Thomas A. Stapleford is associate professor in the program of liberal studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. xi
Blueprints	p. xv
Orientation: In Search of the Chicago School	p. xxv
Economics Built for Policy: The Legacy of Milton Friedman
Positive Economics for Democratic Policy: Milton Friedman, Institutionalism, and the Science of History	p. 3
Markets, Politics, and Democracy at Chicago: Taking Economics Seriously	p. 36
Constructing the Institutional Foundations of the Chicago School
The Price Is Not Right: Theodore W. Schultz, Policy Planning, and Agricultural Economics in the Cold-War United States	p. 67
Sharpening Tools in the Workshop: The Workshop System and the Chicago School's Success	p. 93
George Stigler, the Graduate School of Business, and the Pillars of the Chicago School	p. 116
Imperial Chicago
Chicago Price Theory and Chicago Law and Economics: A Tale of Two Transitions	p. 151
Intervening in Laissez-Faire Liberalism: Chicago's Shift on Patents	p. 180
Allusions to Evolution: Edifying Evolutionary Biology rather than Economic Theory	p. 208
On the Origins (at Chicago) of Some Species of Neoliberal Evolutionary Economics	p. 237
Debating "Chicago Neoliberalism"
Jacob Viner's Critique of Chicago Neoliberalism	p. 279
The Chicago School, Hayek, and Neoliberalism	p. 301
The Lucky Consistency of Milton Friedman's Science and Politics, 1933-1963	p. 335
Chicago Neoliberalism and the Genesis of the Milton Friedman Institute (2006-2009)	p. 368
Index	p. 389
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