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Challenges to Sound Global Governance for Health

In an excerpt from his new book, Global Health Security: A Blueprint for the Future, Lawrence O. Gostin examines the challenges and...
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More Than 20 Years of Consolidation Have Led to a Dysfunctional Health Care Market

The US health care system is based on markets, which do not function as well as they could, or should. Prices are...
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Opening the Black Box: The Hidden Costs of Data-Driven Mergers in Health Care

Vertical data-driven mergers between health insurers and drug suppliers may facilitate health insurers’ efforts to discriminate against vulnerable populations, leaving them without...
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What Is the Price of a Prescription Drug?

Due to lack of transparency and mystery rebates, which are considered trade secrets, figuring out the price of a prescription drug is...
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Addictive Social Media: Why We Need Regulation and Competition for Digital Platforms

Social media is associated with the prevalence of mood disorders, depression, and anxiety. With no regulations to address the dangers of addictive...
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Captured Western Governments Are Failing the Coronavirus Test

In deciding on possible countermeasures, residents of Western democracies often hear only two opposite perspectives: Is the priority to minimize the loss of human...
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The Real Price of Health Data: Americans Don’t Want to Share Their Records for Free

The 2019 Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index survey shows that 93 percent of participants don’t want to share their health data with digital...
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The Rise of the Opioids: How Purdue Invented New Markets for OxyContin

Purdue's strategy was to market its opioids directly to patients via brochures, videos, advertisements, and the internet. It also provided information to doctors and...
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How to Lobby on E-Waste? A New Stigler Center Case Study on the Hewlett-Packard Dilemma

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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Money in Politics

Healthcare Companies Spent More on Lobbying Than Any Other Industry Last Year

Brooke Fox
Threatened by regulated price caps from congress, the pharmaceutical industry spent nearly $390 million on lobbying in 2021 according to new data...
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Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust and Rule by Judges

Paul Tucker
The early-1980s Posner-Stigler memorandum to incoming president Reagan’s transition team is interesting for a host of reasons, but most of all in...
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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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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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