Steven Cheung at Chicago, 1968
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Deidre N. McCloskey
Abstract
I met Steve in August 1968 when he and I were assigned as office mates in the old Social Science Building of the University of Chicago. Steve was visiting Chicago, finishing up his book on sharecropping – we had many talks about it – and I was just starting as an assistant professor. Of course I learned in the first half hour of our friendship that Steve was a star in photography, in kite flying, in ping pong, and in Chinese checkers…and economics! Well, he was – I can testify to the economics and the photography (he once told me that he thought in English as an economist but in Chinese as a photographer); and I did once catch sight of him playing a mean game of ping pong. I was dazzled by the Famous Chicago Department, but Steve got me going in a slightly different – and very UCLA – direction, leading me to work on enclosures and open fields in England.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Original Articles
- Steven N.S. Cheung’s Reminiscence of Himself – A Reply to Ning Wang
- China’s Challenge: Expanding the Market, Limiting the State
- Steve Cheung in Seattle, 1969–1982
- Steve Cheung as Teacher
- Steven Cheung at Chicago, 1968
- Seeing Things with Your Own Eyes: Steven Cheung’s Example for Economists
- Steven Cheung and Coasian Economics: A Personal Reflection
- Cheung, Becker and Marriage
- Economic Explanation: From Sharecropping to the Sharing Economy
- The Assembly of Rents
- Contract Matters: An Explanation of China’s Recent Economic History
- The Contractual Nature of the City
- Wisdom of the Past
- Benjamin Constant on Law and Government
- Market for ideas
- On Human and Natural Economies Interview Geerat J. Vermeij, by Grégoire Canlorbe
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Original Articles
- Steven N.S. Cheung’s Reminiscence of Himself – A Reply to Ning Wang
- China’s Challenge: Expanding the Market, Limiting the State
- Steve Cheung in Seattle, 1969–1982
- Steve Cheung as Teacher
- Steven Cheung at Chicago, 1968
- Seeing Things with Your Own Eyes: Steven Cheung’s Example for Economists
- Steven Cheung and Coasian Economics: A Personal Reflection
- Cheung, Becker and Marriage
- Economic Explanation: From Sharecropping to the Sharing Economy
- The Assembly of Rents
- Contract Matters: An Explanation of China’s Recent Economic History
- The Contractual Nature of the City
- Wisdom of the Past
- Benjamin Constant on Law and Government
- Market for ideas
- On Human and Natural Economies Interview Geerat J. Vermeij, by Grégoire Canlorbe
