Media
Should Google Still be Allowed to Crown the Kings in Digital Markets?
Google search is continuously evolving into a full service provider, directly selecting and presenting the information that we are looking for. At first glance,...
Why Are Google and Facebook Now Okay with Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code?
A week of commercial deals and government negotiations has resulted in a series of amendments to the legislation aimed at making Google and Facebook...
Why Is All Covid-19 News Bad News?
A new paper finds that media coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic, including vaccine development, tends to be more negative in the US than elsewhere....
Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Nursing Homes, the World’s Largest Pension Fund, and Our Make-Believe Economy
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.
We've had well over a decade of lower...
Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Wirecard, Women in the Workplace, and Social Safety Nets
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.
We tend to think progress on social issues...
Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: The Fed, the Google Antitrust Case, and Covid Bankruptcies
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.
"In the popular imagination, the Fed is a...
Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Economists, Corporate Giveaways, and Elon Musk
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.
There's been a lot of discussion of Milton...
Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Insider Trading, Central Banking, and the Fall of the CDC
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.
I guess insider trading is just like pornography:...
Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Friedman, 50 Years Later Edition
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.
We're celebrating—ok, acknowledging might be a better word—the...
Australia’s News Media and Digital Platforms Bargaining Code is Great Politics But Questionable Economics
If the Australian government wants to subsidize high-quality journalism then it should, well, subsidize high-quality journalism. The new proposed ACCC code would mess with...
