In addition, a work that provides very useful context is: How the Cold  
War Transformed Philosophy of Science: To the Icy Slopes of Logic .  
Front Cover. George A. Reisch. Cambridge University Press, Mar 21,  
2005, which does not have much on economics (although nice stuff on  
Neurath's criticism of Hayek), but quite a bit about the situation at  
Chicago.
Eric

BOF Research Professor, Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Ghent  
University, Blandijnberg 2, Ghent, B-9000, Belgium. Phone:  
(31)-(0)6-15005958
http://digressionsnimpressions.typepad.com/digressionsimpressions/
http://www.newappsblog.com/eric-schliesser/
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=649484
http://philpapers.org/s/Eric%20Schliesser
www.cambridge.org/9780521766180
I am a signatory of the 'Online Petition in Support of the Gendered  
Conference Campaign'; please visit the petition for details.
Quoting David Mitch <[log in to unmask]>:

> I can suggest two classes of items on this.  The first is in a summary of a
> memorial service
> for T.W. Schultz held shortly after his death in 1998. It is reported in
> the journal Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol.47, no.1 (Oct.,
> 1998),
> p.210. There Clifton Wharton reports an episode when he was waiting to see
> Schultz in the early 1950s when some visitor entered Schultz' office and
> said he was doing a security check on one of Schultz' students.  Wharton
> specifically puts this in the context of communist witch-hunt efforts.
> This is of course anecdotal reported at a memorial service.
>
> The second category can be found in the finding aids for the University of
> Chicago
> Office of the President, Kimpton Administration. Lawrence Kimpton was
> President of the University throughout the 1950s in succession to Hutchins.
> The finding aids list numerous folders in Box 3 pertaining to "Academic
> Freedom"
> and Folders 14-16 refer in particular to testimony in hearings before
> the House Un-American Activities Committee.  One can access the finding aids
> for this paper on line through the Special Collections Research Center at
> the
> University of Chicago.
>
> One query I have is whether the focus of the submcommittee when it visited
> the University of Chicago
> was only on economists or was it casting its net more broadly.  The folders
> in the
> Kimpton administration papers suggest that the net was being cast pretty
> broadly.
> Also, Wharton in his anecdote about Schultz reports that when Schultz put
> conditions on providing any testimony about his former student, the visitor
> contacted his superior--who said "Oh Schultz---skip him---just move on
> to the next person."
>
> David Mitch
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 5:32 PM, E. Roy Weintraub <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Anatol Rapoport's autobiography states that Senator Albert Jenner's
>> Internal Activities Subcommittee came to the University of Chicago looking
>> for communists in 1953, two years after Hutchins left. Several faculty were
>> fired. is there a record of any Chicago economists being called to testify?
>> Are there records of any of them being interviewed by the FBI or the
>> Subcommittee about "communist tendencies" or "communist sympathies" among
>> colleagues?
>>
>> --------
>> E. Roy Weintraub
>> Professor of Economics
>> Fellow, Center for the History of Political Economy
>> <http://hope.econ.duke.edu/>
>> Duke University
>> www.econ.duke.edu/~erw/erw.homepage.html
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> David Mitch
> Professor of Economics
> Graduate Program Director
> Economic Policy Analysis
> Affiliate Professor, Asian Studies
> University of Maryland, Baltimore County
> email: [log in to unmask]


BOF Research Professor, Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Ghent  
University, Blandijnberg 2, Ghent, B-9000, Belgium. Phone:  
(31)-(0)6-15005958