Biographical and bibliographical essay
Frank Hyneman Knight was born in McLean County, Illinois, and was educated at small denominational colleges in Tennessee ... Knight's interest in developing an American institutionalist economics was the primary motive behind his appointment as professor of economics at the University of Chicago in 1927, where he taught until his retirement in 1952. Along with his colleague, Jacob Viner, Knight is regarded as one of the formative influences on the Chicago School of Economics. Among Knight's students ... were Milton Friedman, George Stigler, Henry Simons, Aaron Director, and ... James Buchanan.