Frank Knight and the Chicago School in American Economics 1st Edition by Ross Emmett ISBN 978-0415745963 0415745969

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ISBN 10:  0415745969

ISBN 13: 978-0415745963

Author: Ross B. Emmett

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 Chicago economics and the rest of the discipline in the post-war period, and skeptical of liberalism’s prospects. In the course of his investigation of Knight’s work, Emmett has written not only about Knight’s economics and philosophy, the nature of Chicago economics, and Knight’s place in the Chicago tradition, but also about the application of hermeneutic theory to the history of economics, the relation of the history of economic thought to the discipline of economics, and the relation between economics and religion. His eight-volume collection of primary-source material on The Chicago Tradition in Economics, 1892-1945 was published by Routledge in 2001.

Table of contents: 

Introduction by Warren J. Samuels

Section 1: Historical Reconstruction in the History of Economics

1. Exegesis, Hermeneutics, and Interpretation

2. Reflections on ‘Breaking Away’: Economics as Science and the History of Economics as History of Science

Section 2: Interpreting Frank Knight
3. The Therapeutic Quality of Frank H. Knight’s Risk, Uncertainty and Profit
4. Frank Knight’s Dissent from Progressive Social Science
5. What is Truth in Capital Theory?: Five Stories Relevant to the Evaluation of Frank Knight’s Contribution to the Capital Controversy
6. Maximizers vs. Good Sports: Frank Knight’s Curious Understanding of Exchange Behaviour
7. Frank H. Knight on the Conflict of Values in Economic Life

Section 3: Interpreting Frank Knight and Chicago Economics
8. Frank H. Knight, Max Weber, Chicago Economics, and Institutionalism
9. Entrenching Disciplinary Competence: The Role of General Education and Graduate Study in Chicago Economics
10. De Gustibus Est Disputandum: Frank H. Knight’s Response to George Stigler and Gary Becker’s De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum
11. Did the Chicago School Reject Frank Knight?

Section 4: Economics, Religion and Politics
12. Frank Knight: Economics vs. Religion
13. Is Economics a Religion?
14. The Idea of a Secular Society Revisited

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