Onur Özgöde
Onur Özgöde is a Senior Research Fellow in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, working as part of the leadership team of a joint Harvard-Cornell international research project (CompCoRe) on the policy responses of 16 countries to the Covid-19 pandemic. His research lies at the intersection of economic and historical sociology, science and technology studies, American political development, and international political economy. He is currently finishing a book on the rise and transformation of the US macroeconomic state for MIT Press. His work has appeared in leading academic journals such as Socio-Economic Review and History of Political Economy. After receiving his PhD in Sociology from Columbia University, he held postdoctoral fellowships at Duke and Northwestern Universities as well as Harvard Law School.
Economic History Series
The Invention of Economic Growth: The Forgotten Origins of Gross Domestic Product in American Institutionalist Economics
Contemporary critiques of GDP’s role in policymaking see it as an ideological abstraction, emblematic of neoliberalism, that misrepresents “real” economic conditions. What...
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Fear of Punishment Distorts Bank Financial Reporting
When bank employees are afraid of punishment from regulators, they are likely to conceal information about their faulty decisions. This in turn...
Antitrust and Competition
Should The Competitive Process Test Replace The Consumer Welfare Standard?
Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, recently gave a speech condemning the use of the consumer...
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Delaware: The State Where Companies Can Vote
Adapted from What’s the Matter with Delaware: How the First State Has Favored the Rich, Powerful, and Criminal—and How It Costs Us...
Antitrust and Competition
The NCAA Goes After College Athletes’ NIL Money—Here are the Antitrust Implications for Workers and Consumers
Having lost in the Supreme Court on student-athlete academic benefits, the NCAA has signaled a continuing attempt to suppress competition in the...
Corporate Governance
Have Business Roundtable Companies Lived Up to Their Stakeholder Commitments?
In 2019, more than 100 CEOs of US public companies signed a Business Roundtable statement in which they pledged to deliver value...
Inequality
Do Protests Matter At All for Shifting Government Policy Around Economic Redistribution?
New research on the effectiveness of protests on government distributions provides insights into the political incentives of a country’s leadership and the...
Antitrust and Competition
Mergers and Smoking Guns
A recently uncovered memo from George Stigler and Richard Posner reveals how they thought about antitrust and merger policy in advising the...
