Building Chicago Economics

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 and archival sources, contributors examine the people, institutions, and ideas that established the foundations for the success of Chicago economics and thereby positioned it as a powerful and controversial force in American political and intellectual life.

Robert Van Horn is assistant professor of economics at the University of Rhode Island. Philip Mirowski is Carl Koch professor of economics and the history and philosophy of science at the University of Notre Dame. Thomas A. Stapleford is associate professor in the program of liberal studies at the University of Notre Dame.