The American economist Frank Hyneman Knight (1885-1972) was a leading figure in the influential Chicago school of neoclassic economics, especially in his descriptive model of the system of perfect competition. Frank Knight was born on a farm in McClean...

A founder of the Chicago School, being professor at Chicago from 1927 to 1955 after an education at Tennessee and Cornell Universities. His doctoral thesis, published as Risk, Uncertainty and Profit (1921), is a classic of twentieth-century economics....

Frank Hyneman Knight (November 7, 1885 - April 15, 1972) was an important economist of the twentieth century. He was born in McLean County, Illinois in a devoutly Christian family of farmers. He never completed high school but was admitted in 1905 to...

Cell phone text messages. Loudspeakers on towers. Cameras that detect suspicious activity.Colleges and universities are considering these and other measures in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech massacre, seeking to improve how they get the word out about emergencies to thousands of students across sprawling...