Chicago fundamentalism : ideology and methodology in economics / Craig F. Freedman.
"Cold 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, ideolo...
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Table of Contents:
- And only I was left to tell the tale: blindness as an act of will
- George Joseph Stigler (1911-1991)
- Power without glory
- George Stigler's market leviathan
- Five easy pieces
- George Stigler's blueprint for a counter-revolution
- Countervailing egos
- Stigler versus Galbraith
- Was George Stigler Adam Smith's best friend?
- Studying the history of economic thought
- Do great economists make great teachers?
- George Stigler as a dissertation supervisor
- De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum
- Milton Friedman 1912-2006
- Entre nous
- a review of the Friedman-Stigler correspondence
- Not for love nor money: Milton Friedman's counter-revolution
- Why economists can't read
- Shunning the frumious bandersnatch: an unacknowledged assumption of Coase's theorem
- Animal spirits in his soup: a look at the methodology and rhetoric of the General Theory
- In defence of footnotes
- a clarification of a misunderstanding of Keynes's definition of money
- Economic convictions and prior beliefs: Akerlof wrestles with the ghost of John Maynard Keynes
- When truth is not beauty, not beauty truth: a review of econ art
- divorcing art from science in modern economics
- Court jesters, house gadflies and economic critics.