Aaron Director

Aaron Director (1901– 2004) was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School and played a central role in the development of the Chicago school of economics. He founded the Journal of Law & Economics in 1958, and also helped found the Committee on a Free Society.

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Defense, Controls, and Inflation

11/01/1952 Aaron Director

This book offers a transcript of the three-day conference on "The Economics of Mobilization" with a brief review of the issues raised, the conclusions reached, and agreement and disagreement expressed. A mobilization program is to be judged by three

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