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Inequality

Antitrust and Competition

More and More Employers Are Spying on Workers Online. Federal Regulators Are Okay With It

Robert Sprague
Employers today have numerous tools at their disposal to monitor workers’ behavior and communications. Outdated federal regulations and an administration that prioritizes...
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Capitalisn't

Should We Defund the Police? A New Capitalisn’t Reading List

ProMarket writers
In this episode of the Capitalisn't podcast, Kate and Luigi take an economist's look at the concept of defunding the police.
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Commentary

How to Get Police Reform Done? Use Direct Democracy

John G. Matsusaka
Instead of just imploring their representatives to fix things, Americans can use the tools of direct democracy to take charge and promote...
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Capitalisn't

Break Up the Police

Luigi Zingales
In most cities in America, it is not the police that answers to the mayors, but the mayors to the police. The...
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Coronavirus

The Economic and Social Implications of Racial Disparities: A Webinar With Lisa Cook

ProMarket writers
Michigan State University professor Lisa Cook joined Princeton’s Bendheim Center for Finance to discuss how violence impacts innovation, as well as the...
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Inequality

“We’ve Never Had a Purely Capitalist Economy—We’ve Had State-Subsidies for Some and Exclusion for Others”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, UC Irvine law professor Mehrsa Baradaran discussed the connection between the current protest wave and the deep-seated...
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Commentary

Are We Witnessing the Fall of the American Liberal Order?

Karthik Ramanna
In the past 30 years, liberalism has not lived up to its promise to deliver economic returns for the broad majority of...
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Commentary

Why Economic Predictions Are Useless Right Now

Branko Milanovic
The Covid-19 crisis is unprecedented in its global scope and open-ended, uncontrollable progress. By their very nature, the models that economists often...
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Inequality

Indecent Proposals in Economics: The Moral Problem With Randomized Trial Experiments

Ankur Sarin
The advent of field Randomised Control Trials (RCTs) has made it more acceptable for applied economists to collect data in developing countries....
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Coronavirus

Capital and Ideology: a Webinar With Thomas Piketty, Robert Topel, and Edward Luce

ProMarket writers
As part of the Stigler Center’s Political Economy of Covid-19 Series of online programming, which explores the economic and political implications of...
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Antitrust and Competition

Dark Money Dominates Spending by Special Interest Groups and Sways Elections

Matthew Denes, Madeline Marco Scanlon, Florian Schulz
New research on undisclosed and unlimited political contributions, or dark money, exposes the increasing role that such funds play in U.S. elections.
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Antitrust and Competition

The “Conspiracy” of Consumer Welfare Theory

Darren Bush, Mark Glick
Matt Stoller argues there was a conspiracy. It was more of an association with a singular purpose.
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Antitrust and Competition

Researchers Find Reduced Competition After Pandemic

Brooke Fox
The chart of the week comes from a new research paper that documents the increase in small business closures during the Covid...
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News

Voters Still Believe Politics is About the Common Good, Not Just Rent-Seeking

Chad Kendall, John G. Matsusaka
Do voters still believe that politics can be a source for common-good policies and not just partisan bickering and rent-seeking? With political...
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Antitrust and Competition

How to Design Data Protection Laws That Actually Work 

Filippo Lancieri
More and more countries are passing data protection laws, yet empirical studies show that these laws rarely deliver on their promises. A...
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Antitrust and Competition

Are Monopolists or Cartels the True Source of Anticompetitive US Political Power?

Herbert Hovenkamp
Trade associations are often the biggest obstacles to competitive markets, especially when those organizations use their influence to change public policy in...
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Antitrust and Competition

The Uber Files Reveal The Risk of Private Interests Controlling Our Data

Greg Erhardt
Researchers discovered that the introduction of Uber had negative impacts on transportation, findings that required cooperation with public authorities when Uber refused...
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