Thirty years ago, job seekers paged through newspaper ads, made cold calls, or approached strangers at corporate networking events. Today, online applications and social networking platforms like ...

The Stigler Center’s mission includes efforts to enrich the public debate on matters related to the interaction between politics and the economy. The media plays a crucial role in that effort by ...

The Stigler Center's Affiliate Fellows Program is a non-resident, 3-year appointment designed to strengthen and cultivate a multidisciplinary community of scholars worldwide working on political ...

Undergraduate business courses are taught by the same Booth faculty who teach in our top-ranked MBA programs, and they feature the same rigorous approach to education. In our collaborative community, ...

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg isn’t your typical office worker. He was No. 3 on the 2020 Forbes list of the richest Americans, with a net worth of $125 billion, give or take. But there’s at ...

When the pandemic hit and spread in 2020, stock markets in the European Union, Japan, and the United States plummeted up to 30 percent. The implications of the virus for public health, the global ...

Crypto enthusiasts used to have a catchphrase in response to the doubters: “Have fun staying poor.” Their message: Go ahead, invest in your boring stocks and bonds while we get rich with Bitcoin, ...

It’s been seven years since US president Donald Trump took to a Washington, DC, podium to sing the praises of a tax bill, soon to become the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017—better known to many as the ...

Back in 2020, New York Times reporter Kashmir Hill wrote about an experiment she conducted for the news site Gizmodo the year before to see how hard it would be to disconnect from Big Tech—Amazon, ...

The introduction of the price tag was a big step forward for American retailing, and you can thank John Wanamaker. In the 1870s, Wanamaker purchased a former Philadelphia railroad depot and expanded ...

Chicago Booth’s Ronald S. Burt was in London one morning in 2016 reading the Times when he was struck by an image in the newspaper. It was a map that showed where the recent Brexit vote, for the ...

During the fierce congressional debates that led to the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, advocates and opponents of the proposal agreed on one thing: The once-in-a-generation bill, under the ...