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Event Notes: The Consumer Welfare Standard Is Dead, Long Live the Standard
It seems that the only thing academics and policymakers can agree about regarding the Consumer Welfare Standard is that it needs reforming. On April...
Call for 2023 Applications: The Stigler Center Affiliate Fellowship
The Stigler Center is seeking candidates for the second class of its Affiliate Fellows program.
The George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the...
Event Notes: How Will China Move on from the Covid-19 Pandemic?
Countries around the world have overseen wide-ranging public health responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. On June 10, the Stigler Center hosted a panel of...
Announcing the Inaugural Cohort of the Stigler Center’s Affiliate Fellowship Program
The first Affiliate Fellows cohort at the Stigler Center at Chicago Booth is a multidisciplinary group of economists, business scholars, lawyers, and political scientists....
The Mechanisms of Regulatory Capture
To mark the 50-year anniversary of George Stigler’s seminal piece, “The Theory of Economic Regulation” we are publishing a new eBook examining his theory’s...
How Should Antitrust Deal With Facebook? A Stigler Center Panel Investigates
Panelists at the Stigler Center’s recent antitrust conference look at the antitrust case against Facebook and discuss potential theories of harm, as well as...
Should ESG-Driven Investors and Stakeholders Divest or Engage? A Stigler Center/Rustandy Center Panel Explores
Should investors and stakeholders who wish to influence companies to promote desirable social and environmental outcomes focus on actions like divestment and boycotts (exit),...
Announcing the Participants in the Spring 2022 Stigler Center Journalists in Residence Program
Next month, the Stigler Center will welcome eight world-class journalists from Nigeria, Brazil, Chile, Italy, India, Canada, and the United States for an intensive...
Call for Papers: Discrimination in the 21st Century
Ahead of a Becker Friedman Institute/Stigler Center conference on race and gender discrimination that will take place in May, we are seeking papers from...
Call for Applications: The Stigler Center Affiliate Fellowship
The Stigler Center is seeking candidates for its inaugural Affiliate Fellows program.
The George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the...
