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Academic Capture

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...
Academic Capture

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,...
Academic Capture

Protecting the Independence and Integrity of Research: Introducing the Academic Capture Warning System

Bonnie Wilson
Inappropriate financial donor influence at institutions of higher education appears to be on the rise and risks eroding public trust in academic research. In...
Academic Capture

“Economics Now Points Away From the Laissez-Faire Approach”

Asher Schechter
Columbia professor Suresh Naidu on Economics for Inclusive Prosperity, the new initiative he launched with Dani Rodrik and Gabriel Zucman, and why he believes...
Academic Capture

“US Regulators Have Essentially Become Do-Nothing Institutions”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, Jonathan Tepper talks about the rise of America’s oligopoly problem, why he believes antimonopoly is not a left-right issue,...
Academic Capture

Mercenary Science: How Corporate Partnerships Can Corrupt Public Universities

Joshua Hunt
UC Berkeley’s disastrous partnerships with Novartis and BP are cautionary examples of all that could go wrong when public universities allow private interests to...
Academic Capture

Pursuers of Truth or Peddlers of Influence?

David Rapach
Academic capture by donors threatens norms of independence and integrity at institutions of higher education, argue faculty members from Saint Louis University. Our university recently received the...
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