Frank Knight

Tags: Economist.

Frank Hyneman Knight (November 7 1885 – April 15 1972) was an American economist who spent most of his career at the University of Chicago where he became one of the founders of the Chicago school. Nobel laureates Milton Friedman George Stigler and James M. Buchanan were all students of Knight at Chicago. Ronald Coase said that Knight without teaching him was a major influence on his thinking.

alma mater

Cornell University, University of Tennessee

birth date

1885-11-07

birth place

McLean County Illinois

death date

1972-04-15

death place

Chicago

depiction description (caption)

Frank H. Knight

field

Value theory, Profit (economics)

influenced

Milton Friedman, Ronald Coase, David Rockefeller, George Stigler, James M. Buchanan, Steven N. S. Cheung

influenced by

Allyn Abbott Young, Alvin Saunders Johnson, Clarence Edwin Ayres, John Bates Clark

institution

University of Chicago, University of Iowa, Cornell University

LCCN Id

n/79/021424