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Antitrust and Competition

Thomas Piketty, Chile's Political Chaos, and How to Change Capitalism for the Better: ProMarket’s Top Stories of 2019

ProMarket writers
As 2019 draws to a close, we look back at ProMarket’s most-read and most-widely shared stories of the past year.       Thomas Piketty’s long-anticipated follow-up to...
Academic Capture

The Best Political Economy Books of 2019

Asher Schechter
A history of American antimonopoly, the case against Big Tech, and how Europe got better than the US at free markets: here are (in no...
Academic Capture

OxyContin's Academic Marketing: The Studies That Fueled the Opioid Crisis

David Egilman, Gregory Collins, Julie Falender, Naomi Shembo, Ciara Keegan, Sunil Tohan
Purdue Pharmaceuticals used to cite three major studies to argue that in prescribing OxyContin, addiction-risk was not significant. The most influential of those studies...
Academic Capture

Western Multinationals Can Improve Workers' Safety, If They Want to: The Case of Bangladesh

Stefano Feltri
In 2013, one of the largest factories in Bangladesh collapsed, killing 1,134 workers. Many multinationals committed to improving safety standards. A new study shows...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Shareholders at the Gate: The Increasing Pressure on CEOs for More Transparency

Joost Sijthoff
The average share of votes in favor of proposals that require corporate executives to disclose political and lobbying spending is trending up. But a...
Antitrust and Competition

"The Lack of Competition Has Deprived American Workers of $1.25 Trillion of Income"

Asher Schechter
French economist Thomas Philippon, author of the recent The Great Reversal, explains how Europe got to be better at free markets than the US and how...
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...
Antitrust and Competition

The Qualcomm Case: Why Protecting American Tech Monopolies Is a Big Favor to China

Matt Stoller
The FTC sued the company that monopolized the market of components for cell phones with its aggressive patent policy. However, in the technological race...
Income Inequality

The Betrayal of Populism: Why the New Far Right Is the Real Threat to Our Democracy

Cas Mudde
Much of the discussion on populism focuses exclusively on protest against the political system: the protest of “the people” against “the elite.” But elites...
Antitrust and Competition

False Claims and Propaganda: Why Uber’s Narratives Are Wrong But Successful

Hubert Horan
Uber’s narratives reduce everything to emotive battles between good and evil. If Uber’s success is inevitable, and resistance is futile, no one needs to waste...
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