The Chicago School: How the University of Chicago Assembled the Thinkers Who Revolutionised Economics and Business: How the University of Chicago ... Who Revolutionized Economics and Business - Softcover

Johan Van Overtveldt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932841199 ISBN 13: 9781932841190

Publisher: Agate B2, 2009

Synopsis

A landmark history of the Chicago School of Economics. The first book to provide an in-depth history of the Chicago School of Economics, which sprung from the University of Chicago in the mid 20th century. When Richard Nixon said "We are all Keynesians now" in 1971, few could have predicted that the next three decades would have resulted in a complete transformation of the global economic landscape. This transformation was led chiefly by a small but influential circle of thinkers trained in Chicago's departments of economics and political sciences and its business and law schools, many of whom had worked in relative obscurity for decades. These thinkers - including Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, George Stigler and Robert Lucas - revolutionised economic orthodoxy in the second half of the 20th century, utterly dominated the Nobel prizes awarded in economics, and changed how business is done around the world. Written by a leading European economic thinker with long-term ties to the University of Chicago, "The Chicago School" is the first in-depth look at how this remarkable group of thinkers came together and how their influence and importance still echoes over the business landscape.

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Review:

"This is an admirably detailed and thoroughly welcome history of a great centre of economic thought." The Economist

Overtveldt is at his best in his depiction of the ruthless yet stimulating internal culture of the department during these years. Workshops that might be polite but sleepy seminars at other campuses became bloodbaths’ at Chicago. Graduate classes were exercises in terror.’” Kim Phillips-Fein, Chicago Tribune

Unique and fascinating.” Publishers Weekly

I enjoyed the book very much. Instead of stopping at Friedman, Coase and Director, it also offers a comprehensive treatment of [many] neglected figures it is a landmark in the history of economic thought.” Tyler Cowen, The Marginal Revolution”

About the Author:

Johan Van Overtveldt is the director of Belgium-based think-tank VKW Metena, which works on a breadth of economics-related issues. Former editor-in-chief of the Belgian newspaper Trends, he has written several books in Dutch on economics-related issues and contributes freely to the Wall Street Journal Europe.

About this edition

• Publisher: Agate B2
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1932841199
• ISBN 13: 9781932841190
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400