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Event Notes: Whose Business is Health?

Will Macheel
On Oct.14, the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative hosted a panel discussing if and how companies should consider the health implications of their products....
Antitrust and Competition

Why Disruptive Innovation Has Declined Since 2000

James Bessen
Traditional accounts of the growing power of large firms implicate antitrust or political corruption. But in a recent book, economist James Bessen puts the...
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Interview: Sustainable Policies in the Amazon Benefit Business

Stephanie Tondo
ProMarket spoke with Natura & Co Latin America’s Global Sustainability Director Denise Hills about how her company, industry at large, and Brazil benefits from...
Antitrust and Competition

How the Wrong Presumptions Led to the Wrong Conclusions in the United/Change Healthcare Merger

Theodosia Stavroulaki
On Sept. 19, a federal judge approved UnitedHealth Group’s acquisition of Change Healthcare over the concerns of the U.S. Department of Justice. The judge’s...
Big Tech

The Economics of Content Moderation on Social Media

Rafael Jiménez-Durán
Social media platforms have moderated user-generated content since their inception. Economics helps us understand why they do it and how to regulate them. Social media...
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Event Notes: China’s Leadership Transition and What It Means for Its Economy

Will Macheel
On Oct. 22, Chinese President Xi Jinping solidified power and an unprecedented third term with the conclusion of the Chinese Communist Party’s 20th National...
Economic History

How Austerity Emerged after World War I to Preserve Capitalism

Clara Mattei
In this excerpt of a new book, The Capital Order, Clara Mattei traces the origins of austerity to the period just after World War...
Money in Politics

What Citizens United Did Not Predict and Why It’s Time To Reconsider

Matilde Bombardini
Citizens United v. FEC stands in the public eye as the U.S. Supreme Court case that flooded U.S. elections with “dark money” and SuperPACs....
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Call for 2023 Applications: The Stigler Center Affiliate Fellowship

ProMarket writers
The Stigler Center is seeking candidates for the second class of its Affiliate Fellows program. The George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the...
Antitrust and Competition

Fighting New Antitrust Rules Is a Bad Move for Big Tech

Brooke Fox
With new limits on platforms taking effect in the EU and U.S. politicians showing greater willingness to defy tech titans, companies would do better...
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