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vociferation (medicine)


vociferation


The act of vociferating; violent outcry; vehement utterance of the voice. "Violent gesture and vociferation naturally shake the hearts of the ignorant." (Spectator) "Plaintive strains succeeding the vociferations of emotion or of pain." (Byron)

Origin: L. Vociferatio: cf. F. Vociferation.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Knight, Frank H(yneman) (sh)




born Nov. 7, 1885, White Oak township, McLean county, Ill., U.S.
died April 15, 1972, Chicago, Ill.

U.S. economist.

He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1916. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1927 to 1952; Milton Friedman was one of the many students he influenced. His book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit (1921) distinguished between insurable and uninsurable risks and asserted that profit was the reward entrepreneurs earned for bearing uninsurable risk. His monograph "Economic Organization" is a classic exposition of microeconomic theory. He is considered the founder of the Chicago school of Economics.