Stigler Center Talks
Should ESG-Driven Investors and Stakeholders Divest or Engage? A Stigler Center/Rustandy Center Panel Explores
Should investors and stakeholders who wish to influence companies to promote desirable social and environmental outcomes focus on actions like divestment and boycotts (exit),...
Is China’s Political Economy Facing a New Era? A Stigler Center Webinar Explores
A Stigler Center panel, part of our new series on China’s present-day and future prospects, explores the legacy of Xi Jinping, China’s global standing,...
A Former Central Banker Tells Other Central Bankers: “Stay Away From Davos”
In an interview with ProMarket, former Bank of England deputy governor Sir Paul Tucker explains why the “unelected power” of central bankers threatens our...
Data Workers of the World, Unite!
With solutions to the threats of digital monopolies currently looking unlikely to come from the state, law and economics scholars Eric Posner and Glen...
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...
Watch: “Stigler in the 21st Century”
Our 40th anniversary event brought together academics and intellectuals to discuss George Stigler’s legacy. Watch the second day's sessions.
The George J. Stigler Center for the Study of...
Stigler Center Event: Is Direct Democracy a Solution to Populism?
Can direct democracy be used to fix the crisis of representative democracy? Join us for a series of three stand-alone, interrelated lunch seminars by...
Stigler Center Launches Case Study Series
On Thursday, the Stigler Center will launch the first in a series of business case studies that focus on the many ways special interest...
Theory of the Firm Interview Series: John Van Reenen
The second installment in ProMarket’s new interview series: Should the economic theory of the firm be modified? If so, how? In this installment, we...
Interview Series: How Incomplete is the Theory of the Firm? Q&A with Daniel Carpenter
Should the economic theory of the firm be modified? If so, how? In March, the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School...
