The Chicago School: How the University of Chicago Assembled the Thinkers Who Revolutionized Economics and Business (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781932841190)

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.

Author: Johan Van Overtveldt
ISBN-10: 1932841199
ISBN-13: 9781932841190
Publisher: Agate B2
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2009
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.16w x 0.88d