University of Chicago School of Economics, circa 1941-1989

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The research Patinkin conducted in writing articles on the "Chicago approach" is the basis of the University of Chicago School of Economics series. The Raw Material subseries contains drafts of his dissertation, lists of other dissertations in monetary economics written at the University of Chicago in the 1930s and 1940s (including the one written by his, and now Professor Emeritus at Duke, Martin Bronfenbrenner), and numerous reprints of articles by Frank Knight. The Manuscripts and Notes subseries includes a number of slides Patinkin used in presentations of his paper "In Search of the 'Wheel of Wealth': On the Origins of Frank Knight's Circular-Flow Diagram" which was published in 1973 and later included in Essays On and In the Chicago Tradition. The slides, which present graphically early conceptions by different economists of the "circular flow" diagram now common in undergraduate macroeconomics texts, include the amusing 1887 diagram by Fleeming Jenkin which looks like five stick-figures skipping rope. Finally, the Course Material subseries is comprised entirely of one box of notebooks Patinkin kept from his undergraduate and graduate courses at Chicago.

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