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Monthly Archives: December, 2019

Antitrust and Competition

"You Can Put the Monopoly Tiger in a Cage but You Cannot Transform a Tiger Into a Vegan"

Christoph Gisiger
In an extensive interview with the Swiss news website TheMarket.ch, Luigi Zingales discusses ways to deal with Big Tech and the impact of the...
Media

Economics Podcast Recommendations: Esther Duflo on Poverty, James Robinson on Development, and Cesar Hidalgo on Chile

ProMarket writers
ProMarket’s picks for the best podcasts covering economics, finance, and political economy. HBR Ideacast: Esther Duflo In this episode of the Harvard Business Review's weekly HBR...
Antitrust and Competition

Thomas Piketty, Chile's Political Chaos, and How to Change Capitalism for the Better: ProMarket’s Top Stories of 2019

ProMarket writers
As 2019 draws to a close, we look back at ProMarket’s most-read and most-widely shared stories of the past year.       Thomas Piketty’s long-anticipated follow-up to...
Commentary

“Is the Market Actually Efficient? No, It Is Only a Very Powerful Narrative”

Christoph Gisiger
A conversation with Nobel Prize laureate Robert Shiller on his new book, Narrative Economics: "Economists do not study narratives systematically, but they shape the...
Antitrust and Competition

It Is Time to Break Up the Disney Empire

Matt Stoller
Disney is not a corporation that pushes the bounds of artistic and technological possibility but a corporation that pushes the bounds of legal possibility...
Academic Capture

The Best Political Economy Books of 2019

Asher Schechter
A history of American antimonopoly, the case against Big Tech, and how Europe got better than the US at free markets: here are (in no...
Academic Capture

OxyContin's Academic Marketing: The Studies That Fueled the Opioid Crisis

David Egilman, Gregory Collins, Julie Falender, Naomi Shembo, Ciara Keegan, Sunil Tohan
Purdue Pharmaceuticals used to cite three major studies to argue that in prescribing OxyContin, addiction-risk was not significant. The most influential of those studies...
Academic Capture

Western Multinationals Can Improve Workers' Safety, If They Want to: The Case of Bangladesh

Stefano Feltri
In 2013, one of the largest factories in Bangladesh collapsed, killing 1,134 workers. Many multinationals committed to improving safety standards. A new study shows...
Media

Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Dangerous Big Banks, Alexa, and Robert Shiller

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.    First up, a wonky but very well...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Shareholders at the Gate: The Increasing Pressure on CEOs for More Transparency

Joost Sijthoff
The average share of votes in favor of proposals that require corporate executives to disclose political and lobbying spending is trending up. But a...
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