ANGRY ECONOMISTS BACK IN THE DAY.

ANGRY ECONOMISTS BACK IN THE DAY. The conflict between the Chicago School and economics departments in the East goes back a long way. Over 40 years ago,one of my economics professors at Harvard described his feelings about the economists in the Chicago School. The professor compared his feelings to those of a defendant testifying in a trial after a brawl: “Your honor, he punched me, he kicked me, he knocked me down…. [PAUSE] I have never been so tired of a man.”