Mark Witte, Department of Economics Professor of Instruction; Director of Undergraduate Studies “You can learn a lot in study abroad economics classes, and also a lot when you’re outside of class as ...

Positive economics is a fact-based analysis of what is occurring in an economy, without making prescriptions of what should or should not be happening.

Sam Lawrence is fascinated learning about how economists study the impacts of safety net programs designed to lift people out of poverty.In a class last year with Marianne Page, a professor of ...

Students are expected to develop a thorough understanding of micro and macro economic theory at the undergraduate level. Students should be able to apply their knowledge of economic theory and the ...

The Center for Applied AI recently hosted our annual Machine Learning in Economics Summer Institute. This year the Institute was held from August 1st to August 5th. Following the Institute, the first ...

In a bold shift from traditional economics teaching, a group of researchers is calling on universities to bring happiness into the classroom. Ori Heffetz, professor of economics at the Samuel Curtis ...

On October 3-4, 2025,The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and the Center for Applied AI at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business are co-hosting a conference on Frontiers in Machine ...