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 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 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.

Students enrolled in an accredited, undergraduate degree-granting institution in the United States are eligible to apply. This program is open to students from all backgrounds. Participants must be 18 ...

A conceptual artwork titled “Comedian” sold at auction last November for just over $6 million. The piece consisted of a banana duct-taped to the wall, along with installation instructions and a ...

Walk down the aisles of any US convenience store and you could easily feel assailed by rows of similar—yet different—products competing for attention. Bags of Tostitos Scoops! tortilla chips share ...

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 ...

In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Hollywood mogul David Geffen enraged many social media users when he posted a photo of his yacht, Rising Sun, on calm waters. “Isolated in the Grenadines ...

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 ...

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, ...

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