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Antimonopoly Banking After the New Deal

Peter Conti-Brown
The following is an excerpt from "Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America" by Peter Conti-Brown and Sean H. Vanatta, now out at Princeton University Press. 
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Markets Have Always Needed the State

Chris Hughes
The following is an excerpt from Chris Hughes’ new book, “Marketcrafters: the 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy,” now out at Simon & Schuster. You can listen to Hughes discuss his book with Bethany McLean and Luigi Zingales on a new Capitalisn't episode here.
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Why Blue Collars Went Red

Joan Williams
The following is an excerpt from Joan Williams' new book, “Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back,” now out at St. Martin's Press.
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What Is Democracy Beyond Elections?

Natasha Piano
The following is an excerpt from Natasha Piano's new book, Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political Science, now out at Harvard University...
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Conscience Incorporated

Michael Posner
The following is an excerpt from Michael Posner’s recent book, Conscience Incorporated: Pursue Profits While Protecting Human Rights, reprinted here with permission from NYU Press.
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China’s Regulatory Balancing Act

Angela Zhang
The following is an excerpt from Angela Zhang's recent book, High Wire, out at Oxford University Press. Please join the Stigler Center on April 3 at 6:30-7:30 pm CT for a conversation with Zhang, where she'll discuss High Wire with Financial Times' China Technology Correspondent Eleanor Olcott. You can register for the livestream of the event here.
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The Promise of Charity-Owned Businesses

Prateek Raj
A future of business may be businesses owned by charities; they have a history of commercial success and social good. The following is an...
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Getting America Unstuck

Yoni Applebaum
The following is an excerpt from Yoni Appelbaum’s new book, “STUCK: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity,” now out...
Antitrust and Competition

Rethinking Merger Analysis

Louis Kaplow
The following is an excerpt from Louis Kaplow’s new book,“Rethinking Merger Analysis,” now out at MIT Press.
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The Corporation in the 21st Century

John Kay
The following is an excerpt from John Kay's new book,“The Corporation in the 21st Century,” now out at Yale University Press. It is neither necessary nor sufficient...
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