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Economic History Series

The current debate in economics seems to lack a historical perspective. To try to address this deficiency, we decided to launch a Sunday column on ProMarket focusing on the historical dimension of economic ideas.

Economic History Series

Corporate Sovereigns and the Emergence of State Sovereignty: A Closer Look at the East India Company

Swati Srivastava
A new data collection has made it possible to reveal the self-sovereignty of the English East India Trading Company that produced a...
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Antitrust and Competition

A Posner-Stigler Smoking Gun?

Herbert Hovenkamp
A memo from George Stigler and Richard Posner to the Reagan administration was recently unearthed. To understand the meaning behind the memo,...
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Economic History Series

Why Jean Fourastié’s Theory of Economic Development is Still Relevant Today

David Le Bris, Elie Gray
In 1949, the innovative French economist and policymaker Jean Fourastié introduced a theory of growth and technological development that economists could still...
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Antitrust and Competition

The Rise, Survival, and Potential Fall of the Reagan-Era Antitrust Consensus

Brian Cheffins
With major antitrust reform in the air, Brian Cheffins explores how and why a now highly controversial antitrust consensus that emerged under...
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Economic History Series

How China Became a Global Economic Powerhouse Through an Idiosyncratic Approach to Market Capitalism

Isabella M. Weber
Chinese reformers after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 agreed that it was necessary for China to move towards marketization, but...
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Economic History Series

The Communist Origins of China’s Embrace of Markets

Jason M. Kelly
In an excerpt from his book Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China’s Capitalist Ascent, Jason M. Kelly explores the commercial relationships...
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Antitrust and Competition

How the Free Software and the IP Wars of the 1990s and 2000s Presaged Today’s Toxic, Concentrated Internet

Elettra Bietti
How did the internet evolve from a relatively decentralized, hybrid, and democratizing space toward a concentrated, privatized environment controlled by a handful...
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Economic History Series

When Milton Friedman Sided With Keynes Over Hayek on Inflation

Nicholas Wapshott
In an excerpt from his book Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market, Nicholas Wapshott explores the disagreements between Friedman and...
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Economic History Series

How Manufacturing’s Lobby Won and Lost its Political Influence

Jennifer Delton
What happens when supporting capitalism hurts capitalists? Do business lobbies ever control the economy to the extent we think they do? The...
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Antitrust and Competition

The Dawn of Antitrust and the Egalitarian Roots of the Sherman Act

Sanjukta Paul
While it isn’t particularly controversial that concentrated economic power was a legislative target of the Sherman Act, when read as a corollary...
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Fear of Punishment Distorts Bank Financial Reporting

Hamid Mehran
When bank employees are afraid of punishment from regulators, they are likely to conceal information about their faulty decisions. This in turn...
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Antitrust and Competition

Should The Competitive Process Test Replace The Consumer Welfare Standard?

Einer Elhauge
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

Hal Weitzman
Adapted from What’s the Matter with Delaware: How the First State Has Favored the Rich, Powerful, and Criminal—and How It Costs Us...
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Antitrust and Competition

The NCAA Goes After College Athletes’ NIL Money—Here are the Antitrust Implications for Workers and Consumers

Ted Tatos
Having lost in the Supreme Court on student-athlete academic benefits, the NCAA has signaled a continuing attempt to suppress competition in the...
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Corporate Governance

Have Business Roundtable Companies Lived Up to Their Stakeholder Commitments?  

Lucian Bebchuk, Roberto Tallarita
In 2019, more than 100 CEOs of US public companies signed a Business Roundtable statement in which they pledged to deliver value...
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Inequality

Do Protests Matter At All for Shifting Government Policy Around Economic Redistribution?

Belinda Archibong
New research on the effectiveness of protests on government distributions provides insights into the political incentives of a country’s leadership and the...
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Antitrust and Competition

Mergers and Smoking Guns

Erik Peinert
A recently uncovered memo from George Stigler and Richard Posner reveals how they thought about antitrust and merger policy in advising the...
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