Anti-Semitism’s Adverse Effect on the Economy

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Anti-Semitism’s Adverse Effect on the Economy

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The cover story in the latest issue of Capital Ideas, the quarterly research magazine for the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business looks at the economic legacy of anti-Semitism in Germany and makes the argument that prejudice and intolerance are bad for business. Capital Ideas editor-in-chief Hal Weitzman talks about the research and discusses how it might apply to our current political climate.