How Liberal is UChicago?

JBStillFlying
Thu, 21 Sep 2017 20:33:15 +0000

There have been plenty of Keynesian papers written by UChicago Econ faculty in the last 30 years, according to people who know. Right/left isn’t really an accurate description for schools of economic thought. We used to call it Fresh Water / Salt Water (ie Chicago/NU/CMU/Rochester/MN vs. Harvard/MIT/Yale/Princeton) but those lines have really blurred over the last few decades. Maybe someday there will be another major methodological feud to liven things up again. Not so for now.