Showing posts with label Chicago School. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicago School. Show all posts

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Dick Posner = Keynesian ?!

Dick Posner wrote:

"Keynes was the greatest economist of the twentieth century."

Amazing, read more here. What is left of the Chicago School?

Saturday, January 10, 2009

U of Chicago's Finance Guru on Post-crisis Regulations

More generally, current events are certain to produce more regulation, and
much of it is likely to be counterproductive. My longtime colleague, George Stigler, was famous for his argument, buttressed by empirical evidence, that regulators are eventually captured by the regulated. As a result, regulation often has results opposite those intended.

---- That's Chicago Business School's Gene Fama talking

More here.

Correct me if I am wrong, I think Hong Kong's financial sector czar Dr Chan Ka-keung was Gene Fama's student. Wonder what he thinks of his mentor's thoughts on the matter.




Monday, June 30, 2008

Coase, Chicago and China Conference

The conference organized by R. Coase on China is forthcoming in mid-July.

Stars who will attend include Coase, Bob Mundell, Doug North, Bob Fogel, Janet Landa and Gordon Tullock. You can access the conference's program here. Enjoy!

And yes, Professor Steven N S Cheung's paper would be the first paper to be presented at the conference, and discussants are Bob Fogel and Bob Mundell.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Chicago Price Theory is Back

I am extremely happy to report that Transaction Press has decided to reprint Milton Friedman's classic Price Theory text as well as Gary Becker's Economic Theory.

Meantime, publishers have also offered both paperback and hardcover versions of Frank Knight's Risk, Uncertainty and Profit.

To learn more about the origin and development of the Chicago School of Economics, you can't miss this.