Frank Hyneman Knight 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 C... more
Knight, Frank Hyneman, 1885–1973 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. It... more
