Ross B. Emmett

The Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics

Contents: Preface Introduction PART I: ESSAYS ON THE CHICAGO SCHOOL 1. The Development of Postwar 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: A Readers 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, by David Mitch 9. Chicago and the Development of Twentieth-century Labor Economics Bruce E. Kaufman 10. Human Capital: 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 Steve 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 Sheryl D. Kasper 18. George J. Stigler Edward Nik-Khan 19. Jacob Viner William J. Barber

The Religion of a Skeptic: Frank H. Knight on Ethics, Spirituality and Religion During His Iowa Years

Frank H. Knights antagonism to religion is well known and features prominently in his writings from the 1930s on. But during the 1920s, when he was a professor at the University of Iowa and wrote some of his most important essays on the limitations of economics, Knight was an active participant in the Iowa City Unitarian Church. Drawing on research about his association with the Unitarian Church, and his unpublished writings from the period on religion, economics, and social organization, the essay argues that the Unitarian association provided a community open to discussing the multidimensionality of human experience, which assisted Knight in his investigation of ethics, economics, science, and liberal democracy. In the end, however, his association with the Unitarians ceased when he moved back to the University of Chicago in 1928.

Specializing in Interdisciplinarity: The Committee on Social Thought as the University of Chicago's Antidote to Compartmentalization in the Social Sciences

The social sciences at the University of Chicago are renowned for their leadership in the development of empirical investigation in their respective disciplines. The postwar Chicago school of economics is only the best known of the efforts at that university to entrench specialized competencies in the faculty and students practicing a social scientific discipline. During the same period, the Committee on Social Thought emerged as an academic interdisciplinary unit in the humanities and social sciences. Ironically, the committee became the place in which one honed the competencies required for a particular type of interdisciplinarity.

A Research Annual

Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology is an annual series which presents research materials in the fields of the history of economic thought and the methodology of economics.

Was the Chicago School a Creative Community

We examine two related questions. First, whether the emerging literature on collaboration in creative communities provides any insights that might assist us in understanding the Chicago School of Economics. Secondly, whether the history of Chicago economics provides any insights that might enrich the literature on creative collaboration. The Chicago School is an obvious candidate for such a study because it has several of the features often attributed to creative communities.