Putting Research To Work: Improving Low-Wage Jobs and Public Policies to Support Vulnerable Workers (Part 3)
At the turn of the last century, Edith Abbott and the Great Ladies of Halsted Street conducted research on job conditions in the major industrial sectors of the time. Their careful empirical analysis of the employment circumstances of low-wage workers...
Putting Research To Work: Improving Low-Wage Jobs and Public Policies to Support Vulnerable Workers (Part 2)
At the turn of the last century, Edith Abbott and the Great Ladies of Halsted Street conducted research on job conditions in the major industrial sectors of the time. Their careful empirical analysis of the employment circumstances of low-wage workers...
Eyeing the universe through Einstein's Telescope
The University of Chicago's Evalyn Gates calls the instrument Einstein's telescope. The instrument is actually the phenomenon of gravitational lensing, which acts as a sort of natural telescope. Gates' recently published book, Einstein's Telescope: Th...
What will Nate Silver do next?
In less than a year, Silver's uncannily precise predictions of the ascent of Barack Obama have taken the slight and unassuming 30-year-old statistician from anonymous blogger to one of the years most respected political analysts. Now Obama is President...
Multiple Journeys: The Life of Gómez-Peña
Multiple Journeys: the life and work of Gómez-Peña invokes text and historical photographs to chronicle the performance art practice of post-Mexican writer, artist and activist Guillermo Gómez-Peña.By tracing his family life as well as his past 30 ...
Guillermo Gomez-Pena "Chicano Cyber Punk" Performance to Mandel Hall
Called a "wizard of language" by the Chicago Tribune and praised as "one of the handful of great performance artists in America today" by director Peter Sellars, Gomez-Pena will showcase his uniquely subversive style's blend of acidic Chicano humor, hy...
The Sisters Who Sparked SSA
Edith and Grace Abbott are hardly household names anymore, but their work continues to shape the University and social work around the world.From helping draft portions of the Social Security Act to enforcing child labor laws to fighting for low-incom...
Myths of Consumer Protection: Information, Litigation, and Access
Professor Omri Ben-Shahar spoke on the "Myths of Consumer Protection" at this year's annual Ronald H. Coase lecture for first year law students. Ben-Shahar discussed why he believes the modern consumer protection movement is largely misguided. Consumer...
Chicago Booth - Buisness Forecast 2009 Chicago
Want to get a handle on the economic year ahead? How will global political and economic issues funnel down to the everyday numbers affecting business?From oil prices to elections, from the Chinese economy to the value of the dollar, Business Forecast p...
Chicago Booth - Buisness Forecast 2009 Chicago
Want to get a handle on the economic year ahead? How will global political and economic issues funnel down to the everyday numbers affecting business?From oil prices to elections, from the Chinese economy to the value of the dollar, Business Forecast p...