The Civic Knowledge Project Remembers 1942-3
The Civic Knowledge Project Remembers 1942-43--A documentary that recaptures the early history of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) on the south side of Chicago. CORE co-founders James Robinson and George Houser revisit some of the sites of their ...
Stone Age Graveyard in Sands of Sahara
Paleontologist Paul Sereno comments on his unexpected discovery of an archaeological site in the sands of the Sahara
The Secret Life of Shells: Looking into the ecological past
Susan Kidwell, William Rainey Harper Professor in Geophysical Sciences, discusses a new tool for measuring human impact on marine ecosystems.By collecting data on the living organisms and the skeletal remains of those same organisms scientists can per...
Nudge: An Overview
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Professor Richard Thaler gives an overview of his new book: "Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness." He explains what nudges are and gives a few examples of how they can be use...
Nudge: A Conversation with the Authors
Thaler and Sunstein reminisce at their favorite Hyde Park lunch spot, Noodles, where they say they did some of their best work on the book. Noodles was so important to the creative process, it even made the acknowledgments. The two talk about what eac...
Reading the Fine Print
One of the key questions in corporate finance is how a firm's reliance onexternal finance affects its investment policy. New research suggests that creditors play a much more direct role in firm investment policy than has been previously recognized.
Rational Revolutions
The widespread adoption of new technologies-from the automobile to the internet-tends to be accompanied by stock market booms and busts. Why do the stock prices of innovative firms tend to exhibit apparent "bubbles" during technological revolutions?
Long-Term Consumption: A Microeconomic Approach to Studying Asset Pricing
A fundamental economic question is the tradeoff between investment and consumption and how it determines asset prices in the macroeconomy. New research studies the relationship between consumption and asset prices using microeconomic data.
One Bird, One Stone
How do we choose the means--that is, the actions, objects, or other resources--with which we attempt to achieve our goals? New research suggests that these choices are partly determined by the extent to which available means are only good for the speci...