The University of Chicago Booth School of Business (“Chicago Booth,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) is part of the University of Chicago and acts as a data controller for the personal data described in this ...

The Save More Tomorrow plan allows employees to allocate a portion of their future salary increases toward retirement savings. In the past decade, there has been a rapid shift among employers from ...

The Stigler Center is an intellectual destination for research and programming on regulatory capture, crony capitalism, and the various forms of subversion of competition by special-interest groups.

Within months of COVID-19’s first emergence in China, the World Health Organization admitted it was battling, alongside the pandemic, something nearly as dangerous and certainly as complicated: a ...

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 ...

Since the Great Recession, America’s wealthiest 1 percent have been demonized as fat cats who have grown ever richer while the middle class has stagnated. While protesters have called for the 1 ...

Today’s inflation is transitory, our central bankers assure us. It will go away on its own. But what if it does not? Central banks will have “the tools” to deal with inflation, they tell us. But just ...

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, ...

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 ...

In December, the US Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments in Moore v. United States. The case specifically involves the “mandatory repatriation tax,” a one-time tax levied as part of the 2017 Tax ...

Talk to almost anyone about the forces at work behind Western politics’ contemporary upheaval, and it will not take long for your conversation to reach the discontents of the working class. In the ...

Milena Almagro, Eric Chyn, and Bryan A. Stuart, “Urban Renewal and Inequality: Evidence from Chicago’s Public Housing Demolitions,” Working paper, January 2023.