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Academic Capture

Academic Capture

Cogs and Monsters: Is Economics Destined to Remain a Dismal Science?

Jana Kasperkevic
In her bold new book Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be, Cambridge professor Diane Coyle offers a...
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Academic Capture

Academic Gatekeepers, Real and Imagined, Are Threatening the Credibility of the Field of Political Finance 


Renée Adams
One objective of political finance is to hold power to account. However, gatekeeping, both direct and indirect, is keeping important work from...
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Academic Capture

A Call for Comments: Have You Been Affected by Academic Gatekeeping?

Luigi Zingales
On Friday, ProMarket published a piece by Renée Adams about the impact of academic gatekeeping in political finance. Do you have a...
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Academic Capture

Iowa’s “Butter-Margarine War”: T. W. Schultz’s Fight for Academic Freedom

David Seim
During the Second World War, economists at Iowa State College published a pamphlet titled “Putting Dairying on a War Footing,” which would...
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Academic Capture

“Doubt is Their Product”: The Difference Between Research and Academic Lobbying

Tommaso Valletti
Tommaso Valletti, the former Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission, reflects on the intersection of academic economics and policymaking and offers...
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Academic Capture

Tainted Philanthropy in Higher Education

Jasmine Banks, Samantha Parsons, David Rapach
Our institutions of higher education should apply appropriate ethical and academic standards when considering financial donations; otherwise, they risk promoting the private interests of...
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Academic Capture

Are the Findings in Academic Economic Journals to be Trusted?

Abel Brodeur
A growing number of studies provide evidence that editors (and referees) of academic journals often publish only findings showing a significant effect or surprising...
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Academic Capture

The Most Persistent of All Zombie Ideas: That Taxing the Wealthy Is Destructive to the Economy

Paul Krugman
Economics can’t tell you what values to have. It can, however, shed light on what to expect from policy that reflects any particular set...
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Academic Capture

The World Bank's "Papergate": Censorship Is Not the Best Way to Stop Development Aid From Fueling Corruption

Stefano Feltri
A new study of World Bank data finds that aid disbursement to highly aid-dependent countries coincides with sharp increases in bank deposits in offshore...
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Academic Capture

With the Court Approval of the T-Mobile/Sprint Merger, the Dominant Doctrine in Antitrust Has Jumped the Shark

Matt Stoller
New York Judge Victor Marrero allowed two major mobile companies to merge in an already concentrated telecom industry, ensuring that prices will rise and...
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Delaware: The State Where Companies Can Vote

Hal Weitzman
Adapted from What’s the Matter with Delaware: How the First State Has Favored the Rich, Powerful, and Criminal—and How It Costs Us...
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Antitrust and Competition

The NCAA Goes After College Athletes’ NIL Money—Here are the Antitrust Implications for Workers and Consumers

Ted Tatos
Having lost in the Supreme Court on student-athlete academic benefits, the NCAA has signaled a continuing attempt to suppress competition in the...
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Have Business Roundtable Companies Lived Up to Their Stakeholder Commitments?  

Lucian Bebchuk, Roberto Tallarita
In 2019, more than 100 CEOs of US public companies signed a Business Roundtable statement in which they pledged to deliver value...
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Inequality

Do Protests Matter At All for Shifting Government Policy Around Economic Redistribution?

Belinda Archibong
New research on the effectiveness of protests on government distributions provides insights into the political incentives of a country’s leadership and the...
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Antitrust and Competition

Mergers and Smoking Guns

Erik Peinert
A recently uncovered memo from George Stigler and Richard Posner reveals how they thought about antitrust and merger policy in advising the...
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Corporate Governance

Will “Portfolio Primacy” Throw a Monkey Wrench in Elon Musk’s Plans to Acquire Twitter?

Bernard Sharfman
The SEC's definition of fiduciary duty allows institutional shareholders to vote against Elon Musk's Twitter takeover bid thanks to portfolio primacy.
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Antitrust and Competition

How Europe Can Enforce the Digital Markets Act Effectively 

Alexandre de Streel, Fiona Scott Morton, Jacques Crémer, Amelia Fletcher, Paul Heidhues, Giorgio Monti, Rupprecht Podszun, Monika Schnitzer
As the European Commission gets ready to embark on the complicated task of implementing the recently agreed-upon Digital Market Act, which would...
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