Political economy
Not Everyone Agreed With Alberto Alesina, but Nobody Could Ignore the Work He Did
Harvard professor Jeffry Fridel was a friend and a colleague of Alberto Alesina. They shared the beginning of their careers, a house (for a...
“There Are Few Things More Exciting Than Learning Something New and Important About Humanity”: Alesina’s Scientific Odyssey
"It is a rare scholar who does research in his 60s that is as exciting as the research that he did in his 30s": Alberto...
The Best Political Economy Books of 2019
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...
Political Economy, Blind Spots, and a Challenge to Academics
Anat Admati calls on economists and academics to engage with governance and political economy issues, scrutinize models before applying them to the real world,...
The Malleable Demand for Trade Protection: How Political Campaigns Can Easily Manipulate Public Attitudes Toward Public Policy
Where does today’s anti-trade sentiment come from? A new study finds that people are particularly sensitive to job losses and outsourcing due to international...
Why Are So Many Executives Running for Office These Days?
New research documents a sharp increase in the number of corporate executives in elected federal office between 1980 and 2014. But why do they...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Jan. 29–Feb. 2)
This week in political economy.
As cities across America continue to compete for Amazon’s second headquarters, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari...
ProMarket Expands Editorial Board
Three new board members bring political science firepower to advance Stigler’s mission to understand how states and markets interact.
ProMarket, the blog of the Stigler...
To What Extent Do Political Considerations Affect Finance?
In June, the Stigler Center brought together top academics for a conference on the impact of politics on finance. Ahead of our second annual...
Can “Productive Tensions” Save American Democracy Again?
This is the first installment of a two-part interview we had with David Moss about his recently published book Democracy: A Case Study, which contains...
