Frank Knight and the Chicago School in American Economics

by Ross B. Emmett

Book Overview

Over the last twenty years, Ross B. Emmett has explored the work of Frank H. Knight, the philosopher of the Chicago School of economics. Knight occupies a paradoxical place in the history of Chicago economics: vital to the tradition's teaching of price theory and the twentieth-century re-articulation of the defense of free enterprise and liberal democracy, yet a critic (in advance) of the empirical and methodological orientation that has characterized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415745969
• ISBN13: 9780415745963
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"