ABSTRACT
Victoria Chick was born in 1936, in Berkeley, California. She studied at the University of California at Berkeley where she took her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. Berkeley’s Department of Economics was particularly strong and eclectic at that time. Thus, very high quality and tremendous concentration of calibre were two characteristics of the environment in which Victoria Chick developed as an economist. The important ingredient of that environment was the disparity of views that were flowing in the corridors and seminar rooms of the Department. The independent character and personality of Victoria Chick were stimulated by the diversity of theoretical views there, but she did not take sides on ideology or methodology. That came later. However, a continuity in her relationship with Berkeley was maintained through her friendship with Hyman Minsky.
