First, a continuation of the Chicago school of economics history (a nice follow up to last week’s episode on Charles Walgreen and UChicago), then David Austin Walsh explains the reactionary foundations of law and economics as backlash to the field of critical legal studies.

References mentioned this episode:

• David Austin Walsh. 2024. Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right. Yale University Press.
• David Austin Walsh. Summer 2024. Liberals are to Blame for the Rise of JD Vance. Boston Review.
• Neil J. Young. 2024. Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right. University of Chicago Press.
• Edward Nik-Khah. 2011. “George Stigler, The Graduate School of Business, and the Pillars of the Chicago School.” In Building Chicago Economics: New Perspectives on the History of America’s Most Powerful Economics Program. Edited by Robert van Horn, Philip Mirowski, and Thomas A. Stapleford. Cambridge University Press.
• Jennifer Burns. 2023. Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative. Macmillan.
• Lawrence B. Glickman. 2019. Free Enterprise: An American History. Yale University Press. 
• Elisabeth M. Landes and Richard A. Posner. 1978. “The Economics of the Baby Shortage.”

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