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

by Philip Mirowski, Robert Van Horn, Thomas A. Stapleford

Book Overview

Over the past forty years, economists associated with the University of Chicago have won more than one-third of the Nobel prizes awarded in their discipline and have been major influences on American public policy. Building Chicago Economics presents the first collective attempt by social science historians to chart the rise and development of the Chicago School during the decades that followed the Second World War. Drawing on new research in published...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107616433
• ISBN13: 9781107616431
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"