A Year of Transition: Faculty Recruiting at Chicago in 1946

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Mitch, David
• 署名单位: University System of Maryland; University of Maryland Baltimore County
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/688878
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 1714-1734
• 关键词: economics; demand

摘要

The year 1946 has been seen as a pivotal year of transition by historians of the Chicago Economics Department, in large part as a result of the arrival of Milton Friedman that year. This essay examines new evidence on department deliberations on faculty hiring in February of 1946. It argues that Friedman's recruitment reflected a compromise between Frank Knight and his followers on the one hand and those associated with the Cowles Commission on the other.