During the height of the COVID pandemic, many people who couldn’t eat out at a restaurant—because of stay-at-home mandates or safety concerns—ordered in instead. The increase in orders for takeout or ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

During the fierce congressional debates that led to the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, advocates and opponents of the proposal agreed on one thing: The once-in-a-generation bill, under the ...

Companies are figuring out what individual customers will pay—and charging accordingly.

Monopsony The inverse of a monopoly, monopsony occurs when a market has a single buyer. Lack of competition from other buyers means the monopsonist can influence prices or other terms of exchange ...

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 ...

The problem: Regulatory capture Behind the revolving door is the idea of regulatory capture. Forty-six years ago, the late George Stigler described how a regulatory body tasked with protecting the ...

Globalization has changed. The globalization we knew and understood for most of the 20th century resembled more the globalization that emerged from the Industrial Revolution than it did the ...

University of Chicago’s Alessandra Voena, Harvard’s Claudia Goldin, and Chicago Booth’s Veronica Guerrieri discuss the challenges faced and progress made by women in economics.