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Henry schultz professor of economics, university of chicago, 1985. The chicago school of economics is a neoclassical school of economic thought associated with the work of the faculty at the university of chicago, some of whom have constructed and popularized its principles in the context of macroeconomics, it is connected to the freshwater school of macroeconomics, in contrast to the saltwater school based in coastal universities notably harvard. Chicago school of economic thought, key econimist of chicago. Search fulltext books in multiple academic and general interest subject areas, including 2500. Working papers skilledbiased technical change and regional convergence, job market paper featured in marginalrevolution, the atlantic, bloomberg poorer us cities were catching up with richer ones at an annual rate of roughly 1. Princeton university industrial relations section, march 25, 2019, monday mallika thomas the impact of mandated maternity benefits on the gender differential in promotions. It was first published in 1948, and has appeared in nineteen different editions, the most recent in 2009.
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