Table of Contents

Contents:

Preface

Introduction
Ross B. Emmett

PART I: ESSAYS ON THE CHICAGO SCHOOL
1. The Development of Post-war Chicago Price Theory
J. Daniel Hammond

2. Chicago Economics and Institutionalism
Malcolm Rutherford

3. Adam Smith and the Chicago School
Steven G. Medema

4. The Economic Organization, by Frank H. Knight: A Reader’s Guide
Ross B. Emmett

5. The Chicago School of Welfare Economics
H. Spencer Banzhaf

6. Chicago Monetary Traditions
David Laidler

7. On the Origins of A Monetary History
Hugh Rockoff

8. Chicago and Economic History
David Mitch

9. Chicago and the Development of Twentieth-Century Labor Economics
Bruce E. Kaufman

10. Human Capital, by Gary S. Becker: A Reading Guide
Pedro Nuno Teixeira

11. Chicago Law and Economics
Steven G. Medema

12. Friedman, Positive Economics, and the Chicago Boys
Eric Schliesser

13. Neoliberalism and Chicago
Robert Van Horn and Philip Mirowski

14. Armen Alchian on Evolution, Information, and Cost: The Surprising Implications of Scarcity
Daniel K. Benjamin

15. The Chicago Roots of the Virginia School
Gordon L. Brady

PART II: SOME CHICAGO ECONOMISTS
1. Gary S. Becker
Pedro Nuno Teixeira

2. Ronald Harry Coase
Steven G. Medema

3. Aaron Director
Robert Van Horn

4. Paul H. Douglas
Glen G. Cain

5. Berthold Frank Hoselitz
David Mitch

6. Frank H. Knight
Ross B. Emmett

7. J. Laurence Laughlin
William J. Barber

8. Edward P. Lazear
Morley Gunderson

9. H. Gregg Lewis
Jeff E. Biddle

10. Deirdre N. McCloskey
Stephen T. Ziliak

11. Richard A. Posner
Steven G. Medema

12. Albert Rees
Orley Ashenfelter and John Pencavel

13. Margaret Gilpen Reid
Evelyn Forget

14. Sherwin Rosen
Hao Li

15. Henry Schultz
D. Wade Hands

16. Theodore William Schultz
Pedro Nuno Teixeira

17. Henry Calvert Simons
Sherryl D. Kasper

18. George J. Stigler
Edward Nik-Khah

19. Jacob Viner
William J. Barber

Index

About the Author

Edited by Ross B. Emmett, Professor of Political Economy and Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy, and Co-Director, Michigan Center for Innovation and Economic Prosperity, James Madison College, Michigan State University, US

Reviews

‘The attraction of the project shows in the number of eminent authors who contributed, and who in part came from very different backgrounds. . . recommended.’
*Betrand Schefold, Jahrbucher für Nationalokonomie und Statistik*