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Academic Capture

Academic Capture

Mercenary Science: How Corporate Partnerships Can Corrupt Public Universities

Joshua Hunt
UC Berkeley’s disastrous partnerships with Novartis and BP are cautionary examples of all that could go wrong when public universities allow private interests to...
Academic Capture

Pursuers of Truth or Peddlers of Influence?

David Rapach
Academic capture by donors threatens norms of independence and integrity at institutions of higher education, argue faculty members from Saint Louis University. Our university recently received the...
Academic Capture

Why Every Good Economist Should Be Feminist

Luigi Zingales
As every good economist knows, markets work best when they are competitive. Therefore, every good economist should also be a feminist, defending a level...
Academic Capture

On Science Advancing One Funeral at a Time

Pierre Azoulay
Do star scientists erect barriers to entry for newcomers in their fields? Pierre Azoulay and Joshua Graff Zivin bring some data to the question...
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