Building Chicago economics : new perspectives on the history of America's most powerful economics program / edited by Robert Van Horn, Philip Mirowski, Thomas A. Stapleford.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Blueprints / Robert Van Horn, Philip Mirowski, and Thomas A. Stapleford -- Orientation: in search of the Chicago School / Jamie Peck -- Positive economics for democratic policy: Milton Friedman, institutionalism, and the science of history / Thomas A. Stapleford -- Markets, politics, and democracy at Chicago: taking economics seriously / J. Daniel Hammond -- The price is not right: Theodore W. Schultz, policy planning, and agricultural economics in the cold-war United States / Paul Burnett -- Sharpening tools in the workshop: the workshop system and the Chicago School's success / Ross B. Emmett -- George Stigler, the graduate school of business, and the pillars of the Chicago School / Edward Nik-Khah -- Chicago price theory and chicago law and economics: a tale of two transitions / Steven G. Medema -- Intervening in laissez-faire liberalism: Chicago's shift on patents / Robert Van Horn and Matthias Klaes -- Allusions to evolution: edifying evolutionary biology rather than economic theory / Jack Vromen -- On the origins (at Chicago) of some species of evolutionary economics / Philip Mirowski -- Jacob Viner's critique of Chicago neoliberalism / Robert Van Horn -- The Chicago School, Hayek, and neoliberalism / Brue Caldwell -- The lucky consistency of Milton Friedman's science and politics, 1933-1963 / Béatrice Cherrier -- Chicago neoliberalism and the genesis of the Milton Friedman Institute (2006-2009) / Edward Nik-Khah.