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Economic History

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.

Antitrust and Competition

James M. Buchanan Trusted Market Mechanisms Because He Trusted Individuals

Alain Marciano
James Buchanan, one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century, believed that individuals were able to voluntarily devise private and...
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Economic History

What Stakeholder Capitalism Can Learn From Jensen and Meckling

Alex Edmans
Jensen and Meckling’s 1976 article is an academic classic, but heavily criticized by stakeholder capitalists for arguing that corporate structures should be...
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Commentary

An Unusual History: A Conversation Between Two Economists About the Economics Department at the University of Chicago

Sebastian Edwards, Arnold C. Harberger
In conversation with Sebastian Edwards, Arnold C. Harberger reflects on his time at the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago.
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Antitrust and Competition

Why We Need To Re-think Friedman’s Ideas About Monopolies

David Chan Smith
Friedman’s New York Times Magazine article on the social purpose of business was a specific intervention in the debate over shareholder activism...
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Economic History

Are Intellectual Property Rights Neoliberal? Yes and No

Quinn Slobodian
Today’s global IP regime is often described by critical scholars bluntly as “neoliberal.” But in fact, the topic of intellectual property rights...
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Economic History

A Famed Economist’s Public Company U-Turn

Brian Cheffins
Michael Jensen, a leading late 20th century economist, pivoted from praising public companies in the 1970s to assailing public company governance in...
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Economic History

The Most Famous Article on the Theory of the Firm is Widely Misunderstood

Brian Cheffins
Michael Jensen and William Meckling’s famous 1976 Journal of Financial Economics article has been cited nearly 100,000 times and is often regarded...
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Antitrust and Competition

“Power Is Evil in Itself”: The Ordoliberal Quest for a Privilege-Free Order

Stefan Kolev
The lesson from the quest of German ordoliberals for a privilege-free order from the 1930s to the 1950s is that once in...
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Development

Mobile Internet Is Changing Employment in Developing Countries, but Not Always as Expected

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Gaurav Chiplunkar
Scholars and policymakers have put much faith into the prospect of internet connectivity catalyzing development in low- and middle-income countries. In new...
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Fiscal Policy

Biden’s Second-Best Economic Agenda

Walter Frick
Efficiency is out and political economy is in. But what does that imply about making good policy?
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Monetary Policy

The Fed and Bank Failures

Raghuram Rajan, Viral V Acharya
Viral Acharya and Raghuram Rajan explain how quantitative easing contributed to the problems underlying the recent bank failures such as that of...
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Antitrust and Competition

Self-Preferencing Theories Need To Account for Exploitative Abuse

Patrice Bougette, Oliver Budzinski, Frédéric Marty
Patrice Bougette, Oliver Budzinski, and Frédéric Marty argue in their research that antitrust authorities on both sides of the Atlantic must take...
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Antitrust and Competition

Startup Acquisitions Have Undecided Effects on Innovation and Economic Growth

Christian Fons-Rosen, Pau Roldan-Blanco, Tom Schmitz
Startups are a major driver of innovation, but many startups are acquired by large incumbents. Do these acquisitions stifle innovation or promote...
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ESG & Corporate Governance

History Shows that Voluntary ESG Standards Lead to a More Focused ESG Disclosure

Ethan Rouen, Kunal Sachdeva, Aaron Yoon
In recent years, ESG reports have become more common for publicly traded companies. However, critics have found the information they provide to...
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Regulation

Letters that Matter: How Interest Groups Shape Financial Legislation

Renée Adams, Thomas Mosk
Members of Congress are inundated with an avalanche of correspondence on a daily basis. But what persuades them to heed the call?...
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