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ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

“The Sense That the System Is Rigged Relates to Governments' Failure to Address Inequality and Concentration”

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In this installment of ProMarket’s interview series on the economic theory of the firm, we ask Stanford professor Anat Admati about the role of corporations and governments...
Antitrust and Competition

“Industries Where Market Power Can Harm Consumers the Most Are the Ones We Should Care Most About”

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In this installment of ProMarket’s interview series on concentration in America, Chicago Booth professor and former chair of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers...
Antitrust and Competition

"I Suspect the Major Reason for the Rise in Concentration Is Technological Change, Particularly in IT"

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In this installment of ProMarket’s interview series on concentration in America, Chicago Booth professor Steven Kaplan discusses the reasons for the rise in concentration. "Overall,...
Antitrust and Competition

"Antitrust Policy Relies More Heavily on Beliefs Rather Than a Strong Consensus About Facts"

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In this installment of ProMarket’s new interview series on concentration in America, Chicago Booth professor emeritus Sam Peltzman shares some thoughts on concentration and...
Antitrust and Competition

"There Is a Clear Perception That the European Commission Is More Active In Antitrust Than the U.S. Agencies"

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In this installment of ProMarket's interview series on concentration in America, Tommaso Valletti, the European Commission’s Chief Competition Economist, shares some thoughts on economic concentration...
Antitrust and Competition

"Our New Economy Enables the Winners to Capture Much More of the Welfare"

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In this installment of ProMarket’s new interview series on concentration in America, Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice Stucke discuss bigness, market power, and the digital...
Money in Politics

Watch: Richard Posner Says Congresspeople Are “Slaves to the Donors”

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A clip of Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago discussing the effects of the Supreme...
Antitrust and Competition

“No Convincing Evidence That Concentration Has Been a Major Factor in Explaining Poor U.S. Economic Performance”

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In this installment of ProMarket's new interview series on concentration in America, Chicago Booth professor Dennis Carlton strikes a skeptical note concerning claims that increased...
Antitrust and Competition

“Growing Evidence That Some U.S. Regulators May Value the Profits of the Incumbents They Regulate Over Consumer Welfare”

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In this installment of ProMarket's new interview series, we ask Fiona M. Scott Morton of Yale University about the effects of concentration in America and...
Antitrust and Competition

“Our Efforts to Deal With Tech Firms' Market Dominance in the U.S. Have Been an Abject Failure”

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In this installment of ProMarket's new interview series, Harvard economist F.M. Scherer answers questions about concentration, antitrust, tech giants, and inequality. "Antitrust agencies have not taken sufficient...
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