Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A group of US architects of the late 1800s to early 1900s, including William Le Baron Jenney and Louis Sullivan, noted for their utilitarian designs and their use of steel framing as a skeleton for multistory buildings.
- noun An approach to economics that emphasizes monetarism and disfavors government intervention in the free-market economy as inherently inefficient.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Posner now confesses that he and the so-called Chicago School believed erroneously that "markets were perfect, which is to say self-regulating, and government regulation in them almost always made things worse."
Don Tapscott: The Capitalist Crisis - Who Does What Next? 2010
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Posner now confesses that he and the so-called Chicago School believed erroneously that "markets were perfect, which is to say self-regulating, and government regulation in them almost always made things worse."
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Lynn and Longman observe that the same economic theories that produced the 2008 financial crisis - the so-called Chicago School -- also promoted monopoly capitalism under the euphemism of "facilitating the free market."
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper By Bob Burnett 2010
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Posner now confesses that he and the so-called Chicago School believed erroneously that
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Don Tapscott 2010
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This is a view held by most economists of the so-called Chicago School which has been a dominant force globally over the last four decades.
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Lynn and Longman observe that the same economic theories that produced the 2008 financial crisis - the so-called Chicago School -- also promoted monopoly capitalism under the euphemism of "facilitating the free market."
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper By Bob Burnett 2010
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The Chicago School is the nation's oldest and largest graduate university focused exclusively on psychology and related behavioral sciences.
LearnHub Activities 2009
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It may be difficult to quantify what constitutes a 'Chicago School' but we have one -- and it closely resembles Chicago's personality.
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An American, in the interests of clarity, what are your views on the thinking and activities of the 'Chicago School', led by Professor Milton Friedman, in the second half of the 20th century?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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An American, in the interests of clarity, what are your views on the thinking and activities of the 'Chicago School', led by Professor Milton Friedman, in the second half of the 20th century?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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