05127nam 2200589Ia 450 991077807580332120230721021904.0981-281-201-6(CKB)1000000000767131(EBL)1193436(SSID)ssj0000517449(PQKBManifestationID)11332276(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000517449(PQKBWorkID)10488066(PQKB)10746837(MiAaPQ)EBC1193436(WSP)00002152 (Au-PeEL)EBL1193436(CaPaEBR)ebr10688034(CaONFJC)MIL491720(OCoLC)826658029(EXLCZ)99100000000076713120081121d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrChicago fundamentalism[electronic resource] ideology and methodology in economics /Craig F. FreedmanHackensack, NJ World Scientificc20081 online resource (472 p.)Description based upon print version of record.981-281-199-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Foreword: A Touch of the Billy Joels; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 And Only I Was Left to Tell the Tale: Blindness as an Act of Will; 1. Picking Through the Methodological Slagheaps: How Not to be an Economist; 2. Nobody Here But Us Chickens: The Unappreciated Importance of Ideology; References; Part I. Resurrecting the Chicago Revolution: The Cold War and the Economics Profession; A. George Stigler; Chapter 2 George Joseph Stigler (1911-1991); References; Chapter 3 Power Without Glory - George Stigler's Market Leviathan; 1. Ricardo's Wrong Track - Distribution and Power1.1. Explaining rent1.2. What the market has wrought let no man rent asunder; 1.3. Stigler slices the Gordian Knot of economic power; 2. Freedom as Choice; 3. The Problem of Ideological Blinders; 4. Stigler and Post-War Economics - The Three Pillars of Wisdom; 5. Cold Warriors Fade Away - The Cost of Ideology; References; Chapter 4 Five Easy Pieces - George Stigler's Blueprint for a Counter-Revolution; 1. A Time and a Place; 2. A Good Egg Gives Some Lectures - The Background; 3. Conservatives of the World Unite - How the LSE Manifesto Created an Economic Framework3.1. Banking on a moral imperative3.2. A gorgon's look at monopolistic competition; 3.3. Redeeming the classical economists; 3.4. On being mathematically dysfunctional; 3.5. An economist plays a game of monopoly; 4. Future Directions - How These Lectures Influenced Stigler's Future Work; 5. The Race is to the Swiftest - What has Chicago Wrought?; References; Chapter 5 Countervailing Egos - Stigler versus Galbraith; 1. Matter and Anti-Matter; 2. A Survey of Contemptible Economics; 3. An Economist Plays with Blocs; 4. The Blocs Come Tumbling DownAppendix A. Contents of a Survey of Contemporary EconomicsReferences; Chapter 6 Was George Stigler Adam Smith's Best Friend? - Studying the History of Economic Thought; 1. Field Versus Foundation; 2. Sheltered Workshops; 3. Adam Smith's George Stigler Problem; 4. The Advantage of Having a History; References; Chapter 7 Do Great Economists Make Great Teachers? - George Stigler as a Dissertation Supervisor; 1. Good Teacher/Good Researcher; 2. Protestant Fathers/Renegade Students; 3. Open Season on Ideas/Open Season on Students; References; B. Milton FriedmanChapter 8 De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum - Milton Friedman 1912-20061. Bliss was It to be Young; 2. Reshaping Economics; 2.1. Permanent income hypothesis; 2.2. Quantity theory of money; 2.3. Natural rate of unemployment; 2.4. Positive economics; 3. Death of a Salesman; 4. Old Economists Never Die, They Only Slowly Fade Away; References; Chapter 9 Entre Nous - A Review of the Friedman-Stigler Correspondence; References; Chapter 10 Not for Love Nor Money: Milton Friedman's Counter-Revolution; 1. The Economist as Polemist - Using an Unpredictable Past1.1. John Maynard Keynes - economist as provocateurCold-war ideology infected the development of economics in ways its practitioners were often not fully aware. The Chicago counter-revolution against the dominant post-war triumph of Keynesian analysis had an essential subtext, a perceived struggle between freedom and collective slavery. Ideological objectives subsequently influenced methodological concerns, pushing economists to adopt the zero-sum tactics of the courtroom rather than the mutually beneficial manners of the senior common room. In these ideologically charged times, economists stopped reading opposing views carefully, seeking instChicago school of economicsHistoryChicago school of economicsHistory.330.1553Freedman Craig1950-260343MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778075803321Chicago fundamentalism3730659UNINA