regulatory capture
How Manufacturing’s Lobby Won and Lost its Political Influence
What happens when supporting capitalism hurts capitalists? Do business lobbies ever control the economy to the extent we think they do? The tumultuous history...
Big Tech, the FTC, and Ordoliberals: ProMarket’s Top Stories of 2021
As 2021 draws to a close, we look back at ProMarket’s most-read and most-widely shared stories of the past year.
In a year marked by a...
Populism at the FTC Upsets the Antitrust Religion of Consumer Welfare: A Reply to Sokol and Wickelgren
Institutional change, on any fundamental level, will have those that seek to defend the status quo up in arms. But in order to effectively...
How to Fix the Courts’ Misuse of Economics
Economics has a valuable role to play in antitrust enforcement, but the courts often base their antitrust decisions on unfounded empirical claims or the...
How Interest Groups Utilize Reverse Revolving Doors to Influence Legislative Voting
A new study finds that legislators who worked for interest groups before taking office influence the voting behavior of their colleagues when the motion...
Unreliable Accounts: How Regulators Fabricate Conceptual Narratives to Diffuse Criticism
In 2010, as the world was reeling from the global financial crisis, the body that determines generally accepted accounting principles for listed corporations in...
Announcing the Participants in the Fall 2021 Stigler Center Journalists in Residence Program
This month, the Stigler Center will welcome eight world-class journalists from the United Kingdom, Brazil, China, Romania, Ukraine, Slovenia, and the United States for...
“Comments for Sale”: Charitable Donations Can Lead Non-profits to Support Corporate Regulatory Agendas
A new paper shows how financial ties between companies and non-profits can subvert rulemaking process and lead to regulations that favor the interests of...
What’s Behind Amazon’s Demand that FTC Chair Lina Khan Recuse Herself?
Amazon’s attempt to get Khan to recuse herself from any antitrust investigation into the company is not the first time that a company has...
The Metaphysics of Regulatory Capture
Stiglerian capture and corrosive cultural capture, its left-leaning parallel, are ostensibly symbionts, two attempts at identifying impediments to keeping markets competitive by preventing the...
