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Academic Capture

Academic Capture

Uber’s “Academic Research” Program: How to Use Famous Economists to Spread Corporate Narratives

Hubert Horan
Uber's employees co-authored academic papers with brand name scholars that were then used to back the company's PR and lobbying strategy. Published in respected...
Academic Capture

The Uber Bubble: Why Is a Company That Lost $20 Billion Claimed to Be Successful?

Hubert Horan
In the first of three interrelated articles, transportation consultant Hubert Horan discusses Uber's "uncompetitive economics." There is no real innovation in the company's business...
Academic Capture

Political Economy, Blind Spots, and a Challenge to Academics

Anat Admati
Anat Admati calls on economists and academics to engage with governance and political economy issues, scrutinize models before applying them to the real world,...
Academic Capture

The Harvard Admission Lawsuit Decision Does Not Answer the Main Question: What Are Top Universities For?

Stefano Feltri
A judge ruled this month that Harvard does not discriminate against Asian-American applicants, according to its own criteria. But what kind of students do...
Academic Capture

Economics’ Lack of Interest in Gender Proves: the “Dismal Science” Really Is Dismal

Renée Adams
Economists are still in the dark about the role of gender. For economics to be credible, we have to recognize that our knowledge is...
Academic Capture

Uber and the Sherlock Holmes Principle: How Control of Data Can Lead to Biased Academic Research

Luigi Zingales
How can we ensure that academic journals do not become an unintended instrument in the PR efforts of powerful firms? Luigi Zingales offers some...
Academic Capture

Aaron Director and the Empirical Foundation for the Chicago Attitude on Antitrust

Daniel Kuehn
Empirical evidence, not just disembodied theory, was an important building block of Director’s view that competition could defeat concentration, writes Daniel Kuehn. Editor's note: Aaron...
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A Fair Amount of Freedom for Everyone: Aaron Director Did Have Ideals

David Henderson
David Henderson of the Hoover Institution defends the legacy of Aaron Director, the most enigmatic among the founders of the so-called "Chicago School." Director, argues...
Academic Capture

Presenting: The Stigler Center’s Report on How to Rein in Big Tech

ProMarket writers
The Stigler Center presents its policy suggestions on how to address the political and economic issues raised by the market power of tech platforms...
Academic Capture

Call for Papers: Academic Lobbying

ProMarket writers
Ahead of our fourth annual Theory of the Firm conference, we are soliciting papers dedicated to the topic of academic lobbying.     Three years ago,...
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