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What do you hope for in life? This is a question that we all ask ourselves at some point. We all have expectations in life.

Last Thursday, two Congressional hearings took place in the U.S. House of Representatives that demonstrate just how far America has drifted from its founding principles.

Provost Katherine Baicker appointed Booth School of Business professor Erik Hurst as the new director of the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI), effective immediately. Baicker notified BFI affiliates and senior administrators of the appointment in an announcement on January 5. “I am confident that under Erik’s leadership, BFI will continue its long-standing leadership in...

New research threatens the conventional wisdom.

The recipient of the 1987 Nobel Economics Prize, Robert Solow was a longtime professor at MIT, a mentor to many in his field, and was known best for his work on growth theory.

His elegant work established that the main determinant of economic growth was technology, not growing capital and labor.

His work laid groundwork for understanding how technology accounted for economic growth

Economic theories and calculations shape the way societies construct value, which in turn structures architectural production, which in turn influences the environment.

As a professor at the Wharton School and a pioneering woman in a male-dominated field, she developed new ways of thinking about tough issues.

In February 2011, while I was drafting what was to become "Monopoly and Competition in Twenty-First Century Capitalism," written with Robert W. McChesney and R.