Robert Van Horn, Ph.D.
Department of Economics

At present, Professor Van Horn's research interests include the history of the Chicago School of Antitrust from 1946 to 1960 and the life and work of Aaron Director, a renowned Chicago economist. His most recent research has primarily focused on the rise of the postwar Chicago School. He has co-edited a volume with Philip Mirowski and Thomas Stapleford entitled Building Chicago Economics (Cambridge University Press, December 2011), which contains two chapters that Professor Van Horn authored. During the 2011-2012 academic year, he authored two joural articles. He wrote (with Matthias Klaes) "Chicago Neoliberalism Versus Cold War Planning" in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, and "Chicago's Shifting Attitude toward Concentrations of Business Power (1934-1962) in the University of Seattle Law Review. To date, he has published in following journals: History of Political Economy, International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, University of Seattle Law Review, and Social Studies of Science.

Work in Progress

Papers:

"Aaron Director and the Labor Education Movement (1924-1927)" (to be presented at the History of Recent Economics conference at Duke University, April 2011)

"Hayek's Unacknowledge Disciple: An Exploration of the Political and Intellectual Relationship of F. A. Hayek and Aaron Director" (presented at the History of Economics Society conference at Syracuse University, June 2010)

"A Note on Henry Simons' Death"

"Using Music to Teach the History of Economic Thought" (with Monica Van Horn) (to be presented at The National Conference on the Teaching of Economics and Research in Economic Education conference at Stanford University, June 1-3, 2011)

"Inland Empire: The Chicago School and Economcis Imperialism" (with Edward Nik-Khah) (to be presented at The Economics Made Fun in the Face of Crisis conference at the University of Rotterdam, December 2010)

"Chicago School(s) of Democratic Capitalism" (with Ross Emmett) (to be presented at the 2012 ASSA meeting as well as the 2011 SEA meeting)