Economics

What a thousand years of economic history reveals about modern growth

Nobel laureates James Robinson, Joel Mokyr explored origins of the modern economy with Harris and Booth colleagues at recent Stone Center panel

Who’s really paying for the Trump administration tariffs?

The highest duties in a century have hiked costs for U.S. manufacturers and remade trade patterns

Tariffs, AI and Fed policy frame Economic Outlook event

In a panel discussion, UChicago Booth experts analyzed how policy choices and market forces will shape the year ahead

How China and Russia’s economic transitions reshaped generational mobility

New research from UChicago introduces a novel way to measure long-run, structural development

Students from Panamericana University get crash course in UChicago economics

Partnership brings cohort from Mexico City for two-week summer intensive and cultural exchange

Economics for Everyone initiative adds new lessons, Spanish resources

Free platform for foundational economics education expands with multilingual website and new partnership

James A. Robinson shares 2024 Nobel Prize for research on global inequality

Economist and political scientist becomes 101st scholar associated with UChicago to receive Nobel Prize

Book of Gary Becker’s unpublished work shows his evolution as an economist

Former colleagues and students draw upon Nobel laureate’s drafts and notes of his approach to human behavior

Robert E. Lucas Jr., Nobel laureate and pioneering economist, 1937-2023

University of Chicago scholar’s research on rational expectations transformed the field of macroeconomics