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Aaron Director was born on 21 September, 1901 in Staryi Chortoryisk, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire, is an American economist (1901–2004). Discover Aaron Director's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 102 years old?

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Age 102 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 21 September, 1901
Birthday 21 September
Birthplace Staryi Chortoryisk, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire
Date of death 11 September, 2004
Died Place Los Altos Hills, California, U.S.
Nationality Ukraine

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1901

Aaron Director (September 21, 1901 – September 11, 2004) was a Russian-born American economist and academic who played a central role in the development of law and economics and the Chicago school of economics.

Director was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, and, together with his brother-in-law, Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, influenced a number of jurists, including Robert Bork, Richard Posner, Antonin Scalia, and Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

Director was born to a Jewish family in Staryi Chortoryisk, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine) on September 21, 1901.

1913

In 1913, the 12-year-old Director and his family immigrated to the United States and settled in Portland, Oregon.

In Portland, Director attended Lincoln High School, where he edited the yearbook.

Director had a difficult childhood in Portland, which, at the time, was a center of anti-communist hysteria and KKK activity in the wake of World War I.

He encountered anti-Semitic slurs and was excluded from social circles.

Director attended Yale University, which his friend, artist Mark Rothko, also attended.

1924

He graduated in 1924 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, after three years of study.

Whilst at Yale, Director was influenced by Thorstein Veblen and H.L. Mencken, both academics who believed the public lacked the necessary intelligence to make democracy successful; he eventually came to hold these views as well.

He and Rothko anonymously published a satirical newspaper called the Saturday Evening Pest in which he wrote “the definition of the United States shall eternally be H. L. Mencken surrounded by 112,000,000 morons” and called for an "aristocracy of the mentally alert and curious".

1926

In 1926, he returned to Portland where he was hired to run and teach at the Portland Labor College.

As a radical, his invitations to events organised by Communists and Wobblies created friction with the AFL-affiliated craft unions, which sponsored the College.

While working with these radical groups, Director developed his opinion of individuals as better equipped than government to affect social change.

1927

In the fall of 1927, he began graduate study at the University of Chicago on a fellowship, where he combined his radicalism with a lifelong belief in classical liberalism.

1938

His sister, the economist Rose Director Friedman, married Milton Friedman in 1938.

During World War II, he held positions in the War Department and the Department of Commerce.

The Austrian economist and Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek, at the time a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, was close to Director.

They met in England, and Director convinced the University of Chicago Press to publish Hayek's The Road to Serfdom in the United States as part of the so-called Free Market Study, which they and economist Henry Simons led. Hayek actively promoted Director in helping to fund and establish the Law and Society program in the Law School.

Hayek convinced Missouri businessman Harold Luhnow, head of the Volker Fund, a foundation in Kansas City, to provide the funding.

Luhnow also funded Director's University of Chicago salary for five years, a rare occurrence for the university.

1940

During this period of the 1940s and 1950s, Director broke away from traditional conservative politics, instead combining it with the social skepticism he had learned from Veblen and Mencken and the elitism he developed in Portland.

1946

The Free Market Study had at first centered on Simons's traditional conservatism and opposition to monopolies, but his death in 1946 opened the door for a more radical conservatism.

Director's appointment to the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School in 1946 began a half-century of intellectual productivity, although his reluctance about publishing left few writings behind.

Director taught antitrust courses at the law school with Edward Levi, who was later Dean of Chicago's Law School, President of the University of Chicago, and U.S. Attorney General in the Ford administration.

1950

In 1950, Director still sympathised with Simons's economic philosophy, and as a result, Luhnow threatened to remove him from the Free Market Study.

Friedman and Stigler were still anti-monopolist, but over the course of the 1950s, Director convinced them that monopolies would cease to be a problem under the neoliberal framework.

From then on, Director served as the "ideological enforcer" of the new Chicago school with Friedman crafting the rhetoric and Stigler driving the economic vision.

Through Director's Chicago school framework, scholars like Friedman and Stigler made their first advances into public-policy advocacy

Director's greatest contribution to the Chicago school lay in his ability to recruit and convert scholars to the school's neoliberal doctrine.

Some of his students compared taking his antitrust or economics courses to a religious conversion with Nobel laureate Ronald Coase joking that “I regarded my role as that of Saint Paul to Aaron Director’s Christ.

He got the doctrine going, and what I had to do was bring it to the gentiles." Rather than penning the great works of the Chicago school himself, he was, according to former University of Chicago Law School dean Paul Baird "a teacher of teachers."

1953

In 1953, Director became the head of a new study called the Antitrust Project which aimed to restructure American antitrust law.

The project coincided with the period in which Director broke from traditional conservative ideas and fused them with the elitism of Veblen and Mencken.

He argued that private monopolies only emerged as a result of government action, without which, they would cease to be a problem.

This shift helped turn the focus of the Chicago school of economics towards rebuilding corporate power.

Director used a two-part strategy to help build up the Chicago school.

First, he recruited scholars as well as funding for their research.

Second, he had them use Mencken's framework of mocking targets as ignorant and elitist.

Two of the first converts to Director's neoliberal school were Friedman and George Stigler, scholars from the older, classically liberal Chicago conservative tradition.