ABSTRACT
The Chicago School doctrine reflects, takes advantage of, and reinforces the long-standing practice of identifying business system use of government as nonintervention or “minimal” government, and all other use as intervention. The general values of the Chicago School are pluralism with regard to power structure, gradualism with regard to change, and the viability of the business, or capitalist, system. Chicagoans do usefully remind people that society is a civilization, of which government is only one facet, and that the danger from government arises in part from its absolutist legitimation. The Chicago School emphasizes government power and diminishes the importance of private economic power, especially of business in a corporate system. Chicagoans make a political decision that the danger from government is greater than that from the corporate system, which is really a decision that certain uses of government are more dangerous than others.
