<p>Except Chicago has lots and lots of economics professors, and they don’t all teach it like Milton Friedman (not to mention Thomas Sowell, who hasn’t taught anyone economics in the past 30 years, and never was on the faculty at Chicago).</p>
<p>The University of Chicago is stuffed to the gills with economists who have won the Nobel or other major prizes, and have lots to say for themselves. If you are curious, their work is easy to find and to read. Steven Levitt is a media darling with his Freakonomics books. Gary Becker writes all the time about almost anything. James Heckman is the foremost academic proponent of public investment in preschool for at-risk children. Austan Goolsbee was President Obama’s top economic adviser. Sure, many of the Chicago faculty are politically conservative, but that’s pretty much true of every economics department in this hemisphere, north of Havana.</p>