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Should We Defund the Police? A New Capitalisn’t Reading List
In this episode of the Capitalisn't podcast, Kate and Luigi take an economist's look at the concept of defunding the police.
"Defund the police" has...
A New Capitalisn’t Episode: The Risk Of Reopening – a Reading List
Despite warnings from government and health officials, some states are choosing to begin reopening their economies this week by ending lockdown restrictions. In this...
A New Capitalisn’t Episode: Where Does the Money Come From? With Special Guest Eugene Fama
As Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales predicted in a previous episode, the government is running out of money and will ask Congress for additional...
A Special Capitalisn’t Episode: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Economic Shutdown
One of the prominent economic debates to emerge during the coronavirus outbreak has been whether to continue with shelter-in-place measures that are hurting the...
A New Capitalisn’t Episode, Featuring Paul Krugman: A Reading List
On this episode, Kate and Luigi talk with Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman about his new book Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the...
A New Capitalisn’t Episode: a Coronavirus Reading List
In this episode, Kate and Luigi give an economist's view of the coronavirus outbreak: How should we think about the economic trade-offs of interventionist...
A New Capitalisn't Episode: Did the Economists of the '60s and '70s Ruin the Economy?
Are economists to blame for our current state of affairs? That's the argument Binyamin Appelbaum makes in his book "The Economists' Hour." In this...
Over 60 Leading Finance Economists Ask SEC to Revise the Shareholder Voting Draft Reform
The new regulation that Security and Exchange Commissioners voted in November doesn't fix proxy advisory industry duopoly problems, but it actually makes them worse:...
Twitter Refused to Promote the New Capitalisn’t Episode: This Is a Problem for Free Speech (and for American Health Care)
Twitter banned political ads from its platform but has full discretion in deciding what constitutes a "political ad." The Stigler Center tried to promote...
The SEC Proposal on Proxy Advisory Firms Will Provide Greater Transparency and Accountability
Proxy advisory firms lack transparency and their recommendations are not always in shareholders' interests. However, despite their poor performance, the two biggest firms' market...
