If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Recently the seeming permanence of the rise of earnings inequality has motivated policy proposals to mitigate its impact, including more progressive income taxation, wealth and inheritance taxes, and pay regulation. In this UnCommon Core, economist Kevin Murphy argues that most of these treat the symptom rather than the disease....

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Graduating from the University of Chicago often means leaving behind our distinct environment of intellectual engagement. But UChicago-caliber creativity and scholarship can be accessed anywhere via Colloquium, a new online journal founded by recent graduates of the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities. Published twice a...

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Alumni Weekend 2012 UnCommon Core June 2, 2012 Bubbles, Crises, and the Global Economic Outlook Robert Aliber Professor Emeritus, International Economics and Finance, Booth School of Business The Panics of 1907 and 1837. The South Sea Bubble of 1720 and the Tulip Mania of 1637. These are a few examples of the many financial...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Alumni Weekend 2012 UnCommon Core June 2, 2012 Coming Together or Coming Apart: America and the 2012 Election John Mark Hansen Dean, Social Sciences Division, and Professor of Political Science American politics today is polarized between Democrats and Republicans, between liberals and conservatives, as never before. Looking...

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Alumni Weekend 2012 UnCommon Core June 1, 2012 Chicago: Origins and Vistas of a Mexican City Mauricio Tenorio Professor, Department of History Sarah Lopez Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of History It may be an exaggeration to say that Chicago is today one of the largest Mexican cities, but not untrue. There are an estimated...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Alumni Weekend 2012 UnCommon Core June 2, 2012 Critical Thinking in the United States Armed Forces: A Chicago Perspective Paul Yingling (AM’98, Colonel – active service), Katrina Johnson (JD’06, JAG – active service), Brian Penoyer (AB’88, Commander – active service), Eveline Yao (MD’95, Colonel – active service), and Michael...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Alumni Weekend 2012 UnCommon Core June 2, 2012 Love vs. Friendship in Hamlet David Bevington Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of English Language and Literature David Bevington leads a conversation that will range over the topic of love and friendship in Hamlet. What view does the play...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Alumni Weekend 2012 UnCommon Core June 1, 2012 Infinity and Beyond Bob Fefferman Max Mason Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Dean of the Physical Sciences Division. Weird things can happen with infinity—for one thing, it comes in different sizes. The concept of infinity has tantalized and...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The Chicago Picasso, a gift from the artist to the people of Chicago, was installed in 1967 in Civic Center Plaza to great fanfare, but also great puzzlement. It was often referred to by members of the public as “that thing,” and it seemed quite uncertain what kind of thing it was. Its identity as an artwork became even more...