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Income Inequality

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...
Income Inequality

What Is the Meaning of Wealth?

Branko Milanovic
Who's richer, a person who enjoys the comfort of modern services and technologies, or the ancient kings of a millennia ago? Comparing wealth over...
Income Inequality

Why There Is No “Crisis of Capitalism”

Branko Milanovic
Western dissatisfaction with globalization is wrongly diagnosed as dissatisfaction with capitalism, when in fact it is the product of the uneven distribution of the...
Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust’s Monopsony Problem

Sandeep Vaheesan
Four cases from the past decade alleging employer collusion against workers show that at present, antitrust law is ill-equipped to protect workers. A root...
Income Inequality

A New Capitalisn't Episode: The Controversial Tax Policies Of Emmanuel Saez

ProMarket writers
In a new episode of their podcast Capitalisn't, Luigi Zingales and Kate Waldock interview UC Berkeley professor Emmanuel Saez on tax policy, the wealth...
Commentary

Do Top Economics Journals Hold Female-Authored Papers to Higher Standards?

Erin Hengel
Articles written by male economists are cited less than articles published by women in the same journals, a new study on gender and quality...
Income Inequality

Emmanuel Saez: Saying Inequality Has Not Increased in the US "the Equivalent of Being a Climate Change Denier”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket ahead of his upcoming Stigler Center visit this week, UC Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez discussed the impact of the...
Academic Capture

“The Question Is Whether We Live in a Democracy or a Corporate State”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, Goliath author Matt Stoller discusses the political choices that led to the downfall of the American antimonopoly movement and the “addiction to...
Antitrust and Competition

Thomas Piketty, Chile's Political Chaos, and How to Change Capitalism for the Better: ProMarket’s Top Stories of 2019

ProMarket writers
As 2019 draws to a close, we look back at ProMarket’s most-read and most-widely shared stories of the past year.       Thomas Piketty’s long-anticipated follow-up to...
Academic Capture

The Best Political Economy Books of 2019

Asher Schechter
A history of American antimonopoly, the case against Big Tech, and how Europe got better than the US at free markets: here are (in no...
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