Statistics and schools
…sang the praises of an all-male, largely black charter school in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, Urban Prep Academy, which replaced a high school deemed a failure. And in March,…
…sang the praises of an all-male, largely black charter school in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, Urban Prep Academy, which replaced a high school deemed a failure. And in March,…
…state has refused to help Detroit schools leaving them with > than a $100 million deficit after 4 state designated emergency managers. Sorry for the length of this chemo/steroid rough-cut…
…1933, when the federal regulation of banks was put in place, to 1980, when Chicago School theories began to shape policy, bank failures were rare. During those years incomes were…
…spent 40 years in the thrall of bankrupt Chicago School market theories that support winner-take-all systems. Both have touted the idea that taxes should be “simpler”–as though having language that…
…will just encourage laziness. These assumptions are integral to the Chicago School‘s economic analysis, which depends on nice mathematical equations about humanity that assumes away most of what makes us…
Steve Hutkins, a literature professor who teaches “place studies” at the Gallatin School of New York University. A few days ago, the Trump administration announced that one of its goals…
…of the Council of Economic Advisers, under President Barack Obama, and Chad Syverson, an economist at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, set out to uncover whether this…
…of Chicago, Pearson happily reported that “social security was passed at the University of Chicago while you [Hayek] were there in 1951. You had an option of being in the…
…made every consumer pay more for goods made out of steel or made with machinery made out of steel), the latest example from the Chicago Tribune shows that we must…
…William M. Landes, an economist at the University of Chicago; and Judge Richard A. Posner, of the federal appeals court in Chicago, who teaches law at the University of Chicago….