Frank H. Knight's antagonism to religion is well-known, and features prominently in his writings from the 1930s on. But during the 1920s, when he was a professor at the University of Iowa and wrote some of his most important essays on the limitations of economics, Knight was an active...

Introduction to the publication of the previously unpublished essay "Institutional History and the Classical Economics," by Frank H. Knight. Discusses what the essay tells us about Knight's views about institutionalism and economics around 1930. The proper science of economics, Knight argues in...

Utilitarianism assumed that what is good is a matter of personal preference (No. 2 in the list) but that the distribution of the good, or the means to the good (the writers thought it always a matter of means) was subject to obligation. (They had no use for esthetics, or beauty except as...

It seems necessary to be back to fundamentals! (As it always has a way of seeming necessary to get back, farther and farther, into emptiness, when one thinks hard enough.) But first, one observation by way of orientation, or a concrete orientation to extant discussion: