With an average of 14.7 percent of students studying economics per quarter of a year, the economics presence at UChicago has been strong since the 1970s. It remains one of—if not the—most popular ...

Instead, business economics became a specialization within the existing economics major. “I think we are teaching something which is useful, and I don’t think that’s a horrible thing,” Shimer said, ...

Sanderson brought his signature ability to make economics accessible to his UChicago courses, and he was honored with a Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 1998. “Most of the ...