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The Chicago (Monetarist) School of Economics

Brief History

The Chicago (Monetarist) School of Economics represents a neoclassical thought which describes numerous movements that took place in the field of arts, music, literature and theatre under the community of people who are in the field of studies and applies conceptions of economics with immense focus across the faculty belonging to University of Chicago. This university is situated in the Hyde Park. The school underlines the principle of non-intervention from government perspective and discards the regulation concerning laissez-faire in free market (here unregulated supply and demand determines the price) as ineffective. Chicago (Monetarist) School of Economics is associated with the neoclassical price theory and political philosophy which establishes that individual acts freely as per his wish. Till the period of 1980 Keynesianism (economic theory) rejected for favoring concept of financial economics and national income (Keynes, 2008).

In the 1920s, the Chicago (Monetarist) School of Economics was started by the theorist Frank H. Knight and Jacob Viner. On the other hand, it also referred to the education of economists in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. This school has affected the finance field to a greater extent by formulating efficient market hypothesis. Beliefs and opinion of the Chicago school is not favored by all the economists at the University of Chicago, especially under the Department of Economics (The Chicago School, 2009).

Theories of Chicago school are connected with the contentious Washington Consensus policies. People who assist the Chicago School give preference to the school vouchers, competition law, intellectual property and favor negative income tax of Milton Friedman in the form of substitute to the subsisting system of welfare by stating that it is much less complicated and has less perverse inducements of the government handouts (Chicago school (economics), 2009).

Most Famous Members of the Chicago School of Economics

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