Professor Sam Peltzman, Director of the George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and Professor Stephen M. Stigler, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Statistics Department, discuss issues in economics, politics, and the sciences.
If free trade is so good, why is protectionism so popular? Part of the answer lies in a simple political principle — interests that...
The welfare system in the U.S. started out with the most noble of intentions. However, you'll be hard-pressed to find anyone who is satisfied...
Recorded in 2008, Dennis McCuistion, former Exec. Dir., Inst. for Excellence in Corporate Governance, UT Dallas, speaks with a panel of finance and banking...