Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt joked about this when he compared two fictional universities –Strengthen University and Coddle University– in a lecture / college recruitment pitch given to high school seniors. But more and more, Haidt’s send-up of Coddle University is coming to pass and being...
When technology companies assert that Smart Cities can create“autonomous, intelligently functioning IT systems that will have perfect knowledge of users’ habits”(as London School of Economics Professor Adam Greenfield rightly criticised in his book “Against the Smart City”), they are ignoring these...
The University of Chicago is a bastion of free market economics (at least relative to peer institutions) and is noted historically for housing Milton Friedman and Gary Becker, among other laureates of the “Chicago School” of economics. If you are interested more broadly in the field of econom...