IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-3-030-80987-4_6.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Economics in the United States: New York, Harvard, Chicago and Princeton

In: Economic Theory in the Twentieth Century, An Intellectual History—Volume II

Author

Listed:
  • Roberto Marchionatti

    (University of Turin)

Abstract

The chapter deals with the increasing consolidation of many centers of economic studies in United States, a process that in the 1930s was accelerated by the influx of scholars from Europe. Firstly, the chapter examines economics in New York, at Columbia and at the New School for Social Research, main centers of Institutionalism in United States under the leadership of Wesley Mitchell. Then economics at Harvard is considered: the 1930s represented the golden era of the Department of Economics with the works of Schumpeter, Leontief, Chamberlin, Mason and Hansen. Then economics in Chicago is analyzed: Chicago’s economics represented a mixed bag consisting of three groups of scholars, the precursors of the future Chicago School, the institutionalists and the quantitative economists, connected with the econometricians of the Cowles Commission, center of Haavelmo’s econometric revolution. Lastly the birth of game theory at Princeton as result of the collaboration of Morgenstern and von Neumann is examined.

Suggested Citation

  • Roberto Marchionatti, 2021. "Economics in the United States: New York, Harvard, Chicago and Princeton," Springer Books, in: Economic Theory in the Twentieth Century, An Intellectual History—Volume II, chapter 0, pages 253-342, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-80987-4_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-80987-4_6
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-80987-4_6. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.