Building Chicago Economics : New Perspectives on the History of America's Most Powerful Economics Program (Paperback)

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 Beatrice Cherrier; 13. Far right of the midway: Chicago neoliberalism and the genesis of the Milton Friedman Institute (2006?9) Edward Nik-Khah.