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Guns and Votes: The Victory of an Intense Minority Against an Apathetic Majority

Paola Conconi
This column on the "gun-control paradox"—the fact that gun regulations continually fail in the US Congress despite being supported by around 90 percent of...
Money in Politics

Contrary to Popular Opinion, There Is No Populist Upsurge in Britain

Luke March
Taken how often we use the term, we need to be more accurate in who/what we call populist, writes University of Edinburgh professor Luke March. In...
Money in Politics

Is Economic Insecurity Behind the Specter of Populism?

Elias Papaioannou
A new study examines the role of the 2007–9 global financial crisis and its metastasis in Europe on voting and political beliefs, showing that crisis-driven economic...
Regulatory Capture

The Other World Bank Scandal: A New Study Documents How Corporate Collusion Hurts the Bank’s Credibility—and Harms Sustainable Development

Samantha Eyler-Driscoll
While the World Bank scrambles to contain the Doing Business rankings firestorm, a new paper by Rabia Malik and Randall Stone traces a more...
Regulatory Capture

Have Business Schools Lost Their Way? Duff McDonald Talks HBS and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite

Asher Schechter
Harvard Business School is the largest business school in the world, but is it fulfilling its founding mission of educating businesspeople who "handle their...
Regulatory Capture

George Stigler and How Freshwater Economics Won the Day

ProMarket writers
Colleagues and protégés reminisce about the late George Stigler and his impact on the development of economic thought. Since they first rose to mainstream prominence in the...
Health Care

The Secret Driver of US Health Care Costs: Politicians Wanting to Get Reelected

Asher Schechter
A pioneering new study provides a first-of-its-kind look into the outsized effect that lobbying and political maneuverings have on health care spending. Americans spend significantly more...
Regulatory Capture

Tyler Cowen: Complacent Americans Can’t Imagine a Future Unlike the Present

Samantha Eyler-Driscoll
In conversation with Stigler Center director Luigi Zingales, Tyler Cowen—one of the brains behind the world’s most popular economics blog, Marginal Revolution—argues that a...
Money in Politics

Populism and Time Inconsistency

Mario Blejer
This recent VoxEU.org column analyzes the recent ascendance of populists across the international stage through the lens of the concept of ‘time inconsistency’—that is, the...
Regulatory Capture

Chicago’s Hidden Figure: A Chat with Claire Friedland on her Work with George Stigler

ProMarket writers
Claire Friedland, who served as George Stigler’s research assistant from 1959 until his death in 1991, reminisces about her decades of pioneering work with Stigler and...
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