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Knight, Frank H. (Frank Hyneman), 1885-1972

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Personal name headingKnight, Frank H. (Frank Hyneman), 1885-1972
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Birth date1885-11-07
Death date1972-04-15
Place of birthMcLean County (Ill.)
Place of deathChicago (Ill.)
Field of activityEconomics Social sciences--Philosophy
Profession or occupationEconomists College teachers Authors
Type of familymale
Found inHis Risk, uncertainty and profit ... 1921.
His Freedom and reform, 1982: CIP t.p. (Frank H. Knight)
Frank Knight (1885-1972) ... c1992.
LC database, Nov. 17, 2006 (hdg.: Knight, Frank Hyneman, 1885- ; usage: Frank H. Knight [predominant form], Frank Hyneman Knight)
Wikipedia, 2 October 2018 (Frank Knight; 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; Knight (B.A., Milligan College,1911; B.S. and A.M., Tennessee, 1913; Ph.D., Cornell, 1916) was born in 1885 in McLean County, Illinois; after early study at the University of Tennessee, most of his academic career was spent at the University of Chicago, where he was the Morton D. Hall Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, of Social Science and Philosophy; was one of the world's leading economists)
Find a Grave, 2 October 2018 (Dr Frank Hyneman Knight; birth: 7 Nov 1885, McLean County, Illinois; death: 15 Apr 1972 (aged 86), Chicago, Cook County, Illinois)
Encyclopædia Britannica profile, 2 October 2018 (Frank Hynemn Knight, American economist (born November 7, 1885, White Oak township, McLean county, Illinois, U.S.-died April 15, 1972, Chicago, Illinois); American economist who is considered the main founder of the “Chicago school” of economics; educated at the University of Tennessee and at Cornell University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1916; taught at the University of Iowa (1919-27) and at the University of Chicago (1927-52), becoming an emeritus professor in 1952; author)
The Library of Economics and Liberty profile page, 2 October 2018 (Frank Hyneman Knight, 1885-1972; Frank H. Knight was one of the founders of the so-called Chicago school of economics; more than an economist, he was also a social philosopher)
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