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trucks operate between the two termini and are free to choose either of the two routes, they will tend to distribute themselves between the roads in such proportions that the cost per unit of transportation, or effective returns per unit of investment, will be the same for every truck on both routes. As more trucks use the narrower and better road, congestion develops, until at a certain point it becomes equally profitable to use the broader but poorer highway.
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and in 1957 the recipient of its coveted Francis A. Walker Award, given "not more frequently than once every five years to the living (American) economist who in the judgment of the awarding body has during his career made the greatest contribution to economics." His ashes are interred in the crypt
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Suppose that between two points there are two highways, one of which is broad enough to accommodate without crowding all the traffic which may care to use it, but is poorly graded and surfaced; while the other is a much better road, but narrow and quite limited in capacity. If a large number of
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known at the outset. He argued that these situations, where decision making rules such as maximising expected utility can be applied, differ in a deep way from "uncertain" ones, in which not only the outcomes, but even the probability models that governed them, were unknown. Knight argued that
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While most economists now acknowledge Knight's distinction between risk and uncertainty, the distinction has not resulted in much theoretical modelling or empirical work. However, the Knightian concept of uncertainty has been recognized in a variety of works:
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discussed it at length in his Treatise on Probability; Armen Alchian relied on it for discussing market behavior in his seminal paper Uncertainty, Evolution and Economic Theory; Paul Davidson incorporated it as an essential element in the
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explored the methodological consequences of Knight's and Keynes's fundamental uncertainty in his Epistemics and Economics. A more model-oriented contribution is the "Markets from Networks" model developed by
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The Revival of Laissez-Faire in American Macroeconomic Theory: A Case Study of Its Pioneers
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Lanny Ebenstein (2007). Milton Friedman: A Biography. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 21.
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said that Knight, without teaching him, was a major influence on his thinking.
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Burgin, Angus (November 2009). "The Radical Conservatism of Frank H. Knight,"
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considered Knight to be one of the major figures in preserving and promoting
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Emmett, Ross B. (2009). "Did the Chicago School Reject Frank Knight?", in
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1957, Francis A. Walker Medal by the American Economic Association
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Hands, D. Wade (2023). "Frank Knight and behavioral economics".
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Freedom and Reform: Essays in economics and social philosophy
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Markets from Networks: Socioeconomic Models of Production.
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Knight was raised Christian, but later became an atheist.
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Boyd, Robert (2008). "Knight, Frank H. (1885–1972)". In
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The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
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On the History and Method of Economics: Selected essays
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The Elgar Companion to The Chicago School of Economics
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Frank H. Knight
Frank Knight (disambiguation)

McLean County, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Melvin Moses Knight
Profit theory
Value theory
Cornell University
University of Chicago
University of Iowa
Chicago School of Economics
Milligan College
University of Tennessee
Cornell University
Allyn A. Young
Alvin S. Johnson
Milton Friedman
George Stigler
Charles E. Lindblom
James M. Buchanan
Clarence Edwin Ayres
John Bates Clark
Herbert J. Davenport
Max Weber
Knightian uncertainty
Francis A. Walker Medal
economist
University of Chicago
Chicago School

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