We asked a few Chicago Booth faculty members for their current book recommendations. See their picks.

What do you think about when you hear “operations management”? The way you answer this question likely depends on your exposure to and experience with this academic discipline, which is my area of ...

Announcing MLESI '25! We are excited to welcome this year's cohort for the Machine Learning in Economics Summer Institute, which will be held in Chicago, August 7-13, 2025. Applications for the 2025 ...

When the pandemic hit and spread in 2020, stock markets in the European Union, Japan, and the United States plummeted up to 30 percent. The implications of the virus for public health, the global ...

Back in 2020, New York Times reporter Kashmir Hill wrote about an experiment she conducted for the news site Gizmodo the year before to see how hard it would be to disconnect from Big Tech—Amazon, ...

Within months of COVID-19’s first emergence in China, the World Health Organization admitted it was battling, alongside the pandemic, something nearly as dangerous and certainly as complicated: a ...

The researchers analyzed how the TCJA’s business tax provisions have performed, with an eye to proposing adjustments that would raise the revenue needed to tame run-away deficits and fund priorities ...

The bottom 90 percent’s debt has largely become the top 1 percent’s financial asset As US income inequality began a marked increase in the 1980s, the richest 1 percent of households increased their ...

The survey measured the incidence of working from home as the pandemic continued, focusing on how a more permanent shift to remote work might affect not only productivity but also overall employee ...

You can ponder all the time you spend on these things, and all the great things they do for you that you couldn’t do 20 years ago, and easily conclude that business is speeding up. But if you look at ...

Institutions help explain uneven development between countries.Why are some countries rich and others poor? It’s among the most important questions in economics—in all the social sciences—and one at ...

Creating diverse ties is important not only for people, but for communities as well.