The Chicago School: How the University of Chicago Assembled the Thinkers Who Revolutionized Economics and Business

Van Overtveldt, Johan

ISBN 10: 1932841199 / ISBN 13: 9781932841190

Published by Agate B2 (edition First Trade Paper), 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Chicago School: How the University of Chicago Assembled the Thinkers Who Revolutionized Economics and Business
• Publisher: Agate B2 (edition First Trade Paper)
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1932841199
• ISBN 13: 9781932841190
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Trade Paper.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

When Richard Nixon said “We are all Keynesians now” in 1971, few could have predicted that the next three decades would result in a complete transformation of the global economic landscape. The transformation was led by a small, relatively obscure group within the University of Chicago’s business school and its departments of economics and political science. These thinkers — including Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, George Stigler, Robert Lucas, and others — revolutionized economic orthodoxy in the second half of the 20th century, dominated the Nobel Prizes awarded in economics, and changed how business is done around the world. Written by a leading European economic thinker, The Chicago School is the first in-depth look at how this remarkable group came together. Exhaustively detailed, it provides a close recounting of the decade-by-decade progress of the Chicago School's evolution. As such, it's an essential contribution to the intellectual history of our time.

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.