Daniel Carpenter
Daniel Carpenter is Allie S. Freed Professor of Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Director of the Social Sciences at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. Professor Carpenter graduated from Georgetown University in 1989 with distinction in Honors Government and received his doctorate in political science from the University of Chicago in 1996. He taught previously at Princeton University (1995-1998) and the University of Michigan (1998-2002). He joined the Harvard University faculty in 2002. Beginning July 2021, he will serve as Faculty Director of the Social Sciences at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, a position he also held from 2013 to 2020.
Commentary
George Stigler’s Errors and Their Virtues
George Stigler might have been wrong in his essay on economic regulation, but his influence is undeniable. The unity of purpose in...
Regulatory Capture
Challenges in Measuring Regulatory Capture
We as a society have failed to settle upon what we think are the measurements, the correlates, the red flags, and the warning signs...
Latest news
Antitrust and Competition
New Study Warns Antitrust Inaction May Lead To Acceptable Collusion for Public Policy Considerations
The modernization of EU antitrust laws muddied the water with regard to the ways that antitrust authorities and courts should handle situations...
Antitrust and Competition
Dark Money Dominates Spending by Special Interest Groups and Sways Elections
New research on undisclosed and unlimited political contributions, or dark money, exposes the increasing role that such funds play in U.S. elections.
Antitrust and Competition
The “Conspiracy” of Consumer Welfare Theory
Matt Stoller argues there was a conspiracy. It was more of an association with a singular purpose.
Antitrust and Competition
Researchers Find Reduced Competition After Pandemic
The chart of the week comes from a new research paper that documents the increase in small business closures during the Covid...
News
Voters Still Believe Politics is About the Common Good, Not Just Rent-Seeking
Do voters still believe that politics can be a source for common-good policies and not just partisan bickering and rent-seeking? With political...
Antitrust and Competition
How to Design Data Protection Laws That Actually Work
More and more countries are passing data protection laws, yet empirical studies show that these laws rarely deliver on their promises. A...
Antitrust and Competition
Are Monopolists or Cartels the True Source of Anticompetitive US Political Power?
Trade associations are often the biggest obstacles to competitive markets, especially when those organizations use their influence to change public policy in...
