economists
Tyler Cowen: Complacent Americans Can’t Imagine a Future Unlike the Present
In conversation with Stigler Center director Luigi Zingales, Tyler Cowen—one of the brains behind the world’s most popular economics blog, Marginal Revolution—argues that a...
Chicago’s Hidden Figure: A Chat with Claire Friedland on her Work with George Stigler
Claire Friedland, who served as George Stigler’s research assistant from 1959 until his death in 1991, reminisces about her decades of pioneering work with Stigler and...
Who Are the Top 1 Percent in America? The Answer from New Research Might Surprise You
A new paper challenges Thomas Piketty’s portrayal of an income distribution dominated at the top by passive rentiers who do nothing to earn their money,...
ProMarket Expands Editorial Board
Three new board members bring political science firepower to advance Stigler’s mission to understand how states and markets interact.
ProMarket, the blog of the Stigler...
George Stigler on Regulation: Lessons for Today
October 20 marks the 35th anniversary of George Stigler’s Nobel prize, the first of Booth School of Business’s grand total of eight Nobels. To...
Who Is to Blame for the 2008 Financial Crisis?
The IGM Center at the University of Chicago has asked its American and European economist panel to rate the main causes of the financial...
Richard Thaler and the Science of People
Richard Thaler's thought process and perspective on human behavior have influenced how we view economic phenomena and how they affect and are effected by people.
Earlier...
“A Slow, Creeping Consolidation of Power by Big Money Over Think Tanks in the United States”
Following his ouster from New America, antitrust scholar Barry Lynn talks to ProMarket about academic capture and the power of digital platforms like Google.
Over the...
A Small Step for Theory, a Leap Forward in Corporate Governance
Moving from shareholder value maximization to shareholder welfare maximization may be a small step in theory, but it could trigger a leap forward in...
"The Connection Between Finance and Politics Has Been Under-Researched for Years"
Ahead of the Stigler Center's conference on the political economy of finance, we interviewed Stigler Center Director Luigi Zingales about the motivation behind the first-of-its-kind...
