Abstract

This paper takes up Ronald Coase’s views on the Chicago school, as found in his published and, especially, unpublished writings. Coase’s personal and professional papers, recently opened for examination in the University of Chicago’s Regenstein Library, reveal that his commentaries on the Chicago Economics Department and the Chicago school began already in the early 1960s, prior to his appointment at Chicago. These and later commentaries at once reveal a measure of kinship and significant differences of viewpoint, particularly as respects economic method. Pulling back the lens a bit further, the paper provides additional evidence for the heterogeneity of views on fundamental questions that existed even among ostensibly cornerstone members of the so-called ‘Chicago school’.

中文翻译：

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拥抱：Ronald Coase与芝加哥学校的不安关系

摘要

本文采用了罗纳德·科斯（Ronald Coase）对芝加哥学派的看法，正如他发表的著作，尤其是未发表的著作中所发现的那样。科斯的个人和专业论文最近在芝加哥大学的雷根施泰因图书馆开放供审查，显示他对芝加哥经济系和芝加哥学校的评论始于1960年代初，当时他被任命为芝加哥。这些评论和后来的评论立刻揭示了一种亲属关系和观点的重大差异，尤其是在经济方法方面。进一步拉开镜头，该论文为甚至在所谓的“芝加哥学派”表面上的基石成员之间存在的基本问题上的观点的异质性提供了补充证据。