Immigration

Countering Employer Monopsony Power With Fundamental Labor Rights

Labor policies grounded in the fundamental rights of workers can reinforce the aims of a proposed labor antitrust agenda by limiting a...

The Betrayal of Populism: Why the New Far Right Is the Real Threat to Our Democracy

Much of the discussion on populism focuses exclusively on protest against the political system: the protest of “the people” against “the elite.” But elites...

Are Americans Drifting Apart Culturally?

Is the United States becoming more culturally divided across racial, gender, income, religious, geographic and political lines? New research from SMU and UCLA finds...

How US Voters React to Immigration in the Voting Booth May Depend on Both Immigrants’ and Native Residents’ Skill Levels

A new working paper has revealed two strikingly divergent correlations between increases in high-skilled and low-skilled immigration and change in Republican vote share since...

What Prompts Young People to Invest in Their Human Capital? New Data on DACA and Dreamers Offers Some Stark Evidence

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program—a deportation deferral initiative for immigrants brought to the United States without documents as children—provided a large shock...

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Delaware: The State Where Companies Can Vote

Hal Weitzman

Adapted from What’s the Matter with Delaware: How the First State Has Favored the Rich, Powerful, and Criminal—and How It Costs Us...

Antitrust and Competition

The NCAA Goes After College Athletes’ NIL Money—Here are the Antitrust Implications for Workers and Consumers

Ted Tatos

Having lost in the Supreme Court on student-athlete academic benefits, the NCAA has signaled a continuing attempt to suppress competition in the...

Corporate Governance

Have Business Roundtable Companies Lived Up to Their Stakeholder Commitments?

Lucian Bebchuk, Roberto Tallarita

In 2019, more than 100 CEOs of US public companies signed a Business Roundtable statement in which they pledged to deliver value...

Inequality

Do Protests Matter At All for Shifting Government Policy Around Economic Redistribution?

Belinda Archibong

New research on the effectiveness of protests on government distributions provides insights into the political incentives of a country’s leadership and the...

Antitrust and Competition

Mergers and Smoking Guns

Erik Peinert

A recently uncovered memo from George Stigler and Richard Posner reveals how they thought about antitrust and merger policy in advising the...