Chicago Booth Professor Richard Thaler Takes Home Nobel Prize in Economics
A professor from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business has won top honors in the field of economics. According to a press release, Richard Thaler was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017. Continue reading…
Booth Professor Releases New Book
Richard Thaler, professor of behavioral science and economics at the Booth School of Business, has spent extensive time exploring the notion that the central agents in the economy are “fallible, error-prone humans” and not the “rational actors assumed in traditional economics.” Thaler, who is considered a founder in the field of behavioral economics, is now releasing a new book on May 18, 2015 that further examines why people love to misbehave in ways that effect the economy so much. Continue reading…
Booth Professor Named American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow
University of Chicago Booth School of Business professor Matthew Gentzkow has been elected by The American Academy of Arts and Sciences as one of its 197 new Fellows, according to a press release on the school website.
A Richard O. Ryan Professor of Economics and Neubauer Faculty Fellow at Chicago Booth, Gentkow studies empirical industrial organization and political economy, with a specific focus on media industries. He has had his work published in the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, and Econometrica, and has been covered in major national media.
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