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How “Paperwork Sludge” Keeps Americans From Enjoying Fundamental Rights

Cass Sunstein
Every year, Americans spend 9.78 billion hours filling out federal paperwork. These administrative burdens can make it difficult or impossible for people to vote...
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Corporate Governance

Companies Are More Effective Than the White House in Stopping Whistleblowers

Stefano Feltri
Harvard Business School professor Eugene Soltes tested the "integrity hotlines" companies are supposed to have to let employees report misconduct. In many cases, they...
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Inequality

The Lousy Job Economy: Young People Bear the Brunt of a Long-Term Decline in American Job Quality

David R. Howell
A new study finds a steady decline in the quality of American jobs between 1979 to 2017, even as GDP has grown. This decline...
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Inequality

Fighting Poverty With Field Experiments: the Nobel Laureates' Revolution

Vincent Pons
As a student, Harvard Business School professor Vincent Pons decided to become an economist after a project in Morocco with Esther Duflo. The co-recipient...
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Commentary

Esther Duflo: How to Find the Right Questions

Esther Duflo
In this piece, originally published in 2011 by the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, Esther Duflo, co-recipient of...
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Academic Capture

A Fair Amount of Freedom for Everyone: Aaron Director Did Have Ideals

David Henderson
David Henderson of the Hoover Institution defends the legacy of Aaron Director, the most enigmatic among the founders of the so-called "Chicago School." Director, argues...
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Inequality

The Secret Code of Capital and the Origin of Wealth Inequality

Katharina Pistor
Capital is not a thing, but a social relation enforced by the law and the state. With the right legal coding, any object, claim,...
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Aaron Director

If One Monopoly Is Good for the Firm, Are Two Always Better? Aaron Director and the Tie-in Problem

Sam Peltzman
When IBM patented a punch card processing machine, it had the power to influence both the market of machines and punch cards, but this is...
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Regulatory Capture

How to Lobby on E-Waste? A New Stigler Center Case Study on the Hewlett-Packard Dilemma

ProMarket writers
Brian K. Richter’s case study illustrates how firms can use lobbying strategies to complement socially responsible activities that are cost centers and turn them...
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Antitrust and Competition

Should the European Union Require Tech Firms to Adopt a Common Charger?

Federico Innocenti, Martin Peitz
According to a new European Commission directive expected to be approved in the next few months, tech firms will have to use...
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News

Chart of the Week: Economists Don’t Think Congress Should Make Price Gouging Illegal

Brooke Fox
Most economists disagree with a new bill in the US that would set limits on "unconscionably excessive prices," according to a recent...
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Antitrust and Competition

Neoliberal Economists Are Giving Biden Bad Advice on Inflation

Hal Singer
To spare the economy from the pain of further interest rate hikes, the President should aggressively pursue anticompetitive conduct by companies in...
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Antitrust and Competition

How Would the Big Tech Self-Preferencing Bill Affect Users? 

Randy Picker
The Senate looks to be nearing a vote on the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, which would prohibit gatekeeping digital platforms...
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News

New eBook Revisits George Stigler’s Theory of Regulatory Capture 50 Years Later

Filippo Lancieri, Luigi Zingales
To mark the 50-year anniversary of George Stigler’s seminal piece, “The Theory of Economic Regulation” we are publishing a new eBook examining...
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News

Firms Gerrymander Ownership of Polluting Plants to Reap Public and Regulatory Benefits

Janet Gao, Ran Duchin, Qiping Xu
New research has discovered that many companies who appear to sell, or ‘divest,’ their toxic plants, actually retain relationships with their buyers....
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Antitrust and Competition

How Should Antitrust Deal With Facebook? A Stigler Center Panel Investigates

Utsav Gandhi
Panelists at the Stigler Center’s recent antitrust conference look at the antitrust case against Facebook and discuss potential theories of harm, as...
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