Nobel savages: economists in academia.(University of Chicago economists)
Economist (US), The, March, 1996
Economists at the University of Chicago have earned more Nobel Prizes than economists at any other institution. The encouragement of dissent and the heated nature of debates over economic concepts are some of the reasons for the University of Chicago's success.
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The University of Chicago has been one of the world's most successful economics laboratories. Can it continue to churn out revolutionary ideas? IN 1994, something extraordinary happened in the economics world: for the only time in this decade, the discipline's Nobel prize was awarded to a team that was not from the University of Chicago. Admittedly, impressing a few influential Swedes is not the only measure of success in economics. Chicago economists themselves take more pride in the way their...
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