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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter: Chicago’s Climb to Glory

In: In Search of the Two-Handed Economist

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  • Craig Freedman

    (University of New South Wales)

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These days, economists talk about the Chicago School as though the meaning behind that phrase was both common knowledge and unquestionably understood. But if those words represent anything more than an empty formulation, the assured attribution buttressing that meaning lies in the ghosts of theories now well past their shelf-life. The type of rock-ribbed price theory that formed the wedge Milton Friedman and George Stigler adroitly used to shatter the immediate post-war consensus no longer sufficiently differentiates the clear-water approach of Chicago from the salt-water recipe characterizing Harvard or Berkeley. Like any other discipline or profession, economics moves on. After years of cross-breeding and mutually dependent influences, such a clear-cut distinction belongs to the past rather than the present state of the profession. Bloody battles and past triumphs are left to historians of thought to dissect. However, what stubbornly persist are labels and oral traditions that are often built upon misunderstandings and fractured fairy tales handed down from one generation to the next.

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  • Craig Freedman, 2016. "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter: Chicago’s Climb to Glory," Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought, in: In Search of the Two-Handed Economist, pages 75-121, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-1-137-58974-3_3
    DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-58974-3_3
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