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Antitrust and Competition

The United States: An Exceptional Case? A Webinar With Stephen Haber, Richard R. John, and Luigi Zingales

ProMarket writers
Many see the US as a land where free markets and antitrust enforcement have historically kept monopolies under control. But is that...
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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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Antitrust and Competition

Covid-19 and Amazon’s Future: a Webinar With Stacy Mitchell, Steven Kaplan, and Jacob Schlesinger

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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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

The Price of Democracy: a Webinar with Julia Cagé, Andrea Prat, and Guy Rolnik

ProMarket writers
At this trying time, there is a particularly high demand for reliable and trustworthy information. To address this demand by Booth students, alumni, faculty,...
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Capitalisn't

A New Capitalisn’t Episode: Should States Be Allowed to File for Bankruptcy? A Reading List

ProMarket writers
States are facing massive shortfalls due to the coronavirus outbreak. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has suggested letting states file for bankruptcy....
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Coronavirus

Webinar: Covid-19 and the US Health Care System

ProMarket writers
Political Economy of Covid-19 Series: Watch a Stigler Center conversation between author, journalist, and former health insurance executive Wendell Potter and Chicago Booth...
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Teaching

Webinar: Monopolies and the Rise of Nazism in Germany

ProMarket writers
The Stigler Center’s Monopolies and Politics Workshop Webinar Series explores some of the themes we'll explore at our 2020 Antitrust and Competition Conference: University...
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Coronavirus

Debt Monetization and Lessons from War Financing to Deal With Pandemics: A Webinar With Harold James

ProMarket writers
Princeton professors Markus Brunnermeier and historian Harold James discuss how much new debt governments will pile up in reaction to the Covid-19 economic fallout....
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Coronavirus

Global Supply Chain Disruptions: A Webinar With Penny Goldberg, Former Chief Economist of the World Bank

ProMarket writers
Princeton professor Markus Brunnermeier and Yale professor Penny Goldberg, former chief economist of the World Bank, discuss the impact of Covid-19 on international trade and...
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Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust Misunderstands Innovation. This is how we fix it.

Ketan Ahuja
Antitrust misunderstands innovation by focusing almost entirely on incentives to innovate to the neglect of questions regarding the ability to innovate through...
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Digital Platforms

How Should the Law Tackle Rapidly Evolving Financial Technologies?

Oscar Borgogno, Giuseppe Colangelo, Cristina Poncibò
The last half-century has witnessed an explosion of technology changing how the financial landscape functions for customers and new and legacy banking...
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News

The Road to Hayek: A Comprehensive History of Neoliberalism’s Forefather

Bruce J. Caldwell, Hansjoerg Klausinger
In their first of two volumes, historians of economics Bruce Caldwell and Hansjoerg Klausinger access new archival material to explore the first...
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News

International Policymaking Must Evolve

Paul Tucker
In this Q&A about his new book for ProMarket, Paul Tucker explains the changing global order and the need for academics, policymakers...
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ESG

Capitalism Does Not Require a Tradeoff Between Planet and Profit

Alessio Terzi
Critics of capitalism claim that the economic system incorrigibly encourages the exploitation of the planet and is thus incompatible with efforts to...
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Academic Capture

Event Notes: Academic Bias Under the Microscope

Andy Shi
That scholarship often reflects conscious and unconscious biases has long been an open secret in academia. On April 22, Professors Christian Leuz,...
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Commentary

Corporations Are Not “We the People”

Geoffrey R. Stone
The Citizens United ruling contradicts the Founders, decades of Supreme Court precedent and the will of the American people.
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