Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Knight, Frank Hyneman, papers
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| Notes: | The collection is open for research, with the exception of material in Series VI. This series contains letters of recommendation for students and is restricted for 80 years from date of record creation.
The majority of Frank H. Knight's professional career and the second half of his life are closely identified with the University of Chicago. Knight accepted an appointment for two years (1917-1919) at the University of Chicago as an instructor in Political Economy. Unable to secure a permanent place in the Department of Political Economy, Knight left in 1919 for the (then State) University of Iowa, where he wrote a string of influential articles, translated Max Weber's General Economic History (1927), and proceeded rapidly through the academic ranks, achieving tenure and full professorship in 1922. When John Maurice Clark departed from the University of Chicago in 1927, Knight was the obvious replacement. He received an invitation to join the University's Department of Economics as Professor of Economics shortly after. In 1928, after a year of transition during which he taught in both Chicago and Iowa City, Knight established himself in Chicago, and joined Jacob Viner as co-editor of the Department of Economics' Journal of Political Economy (JPE). Knight was initially appointed to teach courses in the history of economic thought and on the relationship between economics and social policy, as well as to develop a course in historical or institutional economics. Although he did develop the course in institutional economics and always taught history of economic thought, Knight gradually took on other teaching responsibilities that reflected his changing interests. He also lectured regularly in divisional courses for undergraduates. The latter developments, along with his participation in the founding of the Committee on Social Thought in the early 1940s, marked his growing interest in ethics and social philosophy. This led to his cross-appointment as Professor of Social Science in 1942 and Professor of Philosophy in 1945. He was named the Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor in 1946. Knight was vice-chairman of the American Council of Learned Societies in 1942. In 1950 he served as president of the American Economic Association. He was elected a foreign member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in 1965.
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| Summary: | Consists of biographical material and documents pertaining to Knight's education; correspondence; copies of his publications; drafts of published and unpublished essays and articles, public lectures, and criticism; course lecture notes and classroom materials; and writings by others collected by Knight. The papers primarily document Knight's writing, lecturing, and career as a professor of political economics and related social sciences at the University of Chicago, as well as his role as one of the founders of the "Chicago school" of economics.
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| Cite as: | When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Knight, Frank Hyneman. Papers [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
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| Cumulative Index / Finding Aids Note: | Finding aid available in the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library, 1100 E. 57th St., Chicago, IL 60637.
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