After serving in US Army intelligence after the fall of Nazi Germany, he returned to finish his studies at the University of Chicago, earning his B.A.
His areas of research interest and contribution included industrial concentration, Soviet economic history, price theory and political economy.
Nutter's work showed that on the contrary, government intervention over the long run can tend to increase, rather than lessen, industrial concentration.
[3][1] His extensively documented study attempted to correct the widely held view that Soviet industrial production had grown at a pace much greater than that of Western economies.
[1] The Center sponsored and funded a wide array of academic studies and interaction aimed at better understanding the role of the fundamental ideas of Western civilization as the foundation for free societies and economies.
The department attracted a number of prominent academics including Ronald Coase, Gordon Tullock, Alexandre Kafka, George Stigler, and Leland B. Yeager.