Psychology, Scientific Control, Chicago, and the Impact of European Emigres

Review essay on Rutherford, M. (2011), <em>The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics, 1918-1947: Science and Social Control</em>, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.I use the review to highlight the importance of psychology in the development of the institutionalist conception of science and social control, to make a few additional remarks expanding upon Rutherford's “connections” between institutionalism and Chicago economics, and also add an addendum to his argument for why institutionalism went into decline in the post-war years