Ronald Reagan
A Posner-Stigler Smoking Gun?
A memo from George Stigler and Richard Posner to the Reagan administration was recently unearthed. To understand the meaning behind the memo, as well...
A Richard Posner and George Stigler Memo: “Throttling Back on Antitrust: A Practical Proposal for Deregulation”
A 1980s memo from Richard Posner and George J. Stigler to President-elect Ronald Reagan sheds light on their policy advocation for the President's antitrust...
The Rise, Survival, and Potential Fall of the Reagan-Era Antitrust Consensus
With major antitrust reform in the air, Brian Cheffins explores how and why a now highly controversial antitrust consensus that emerged under Ronald Reagan...
Like Microsoft, but With More Glitter: The Cheerleading Monopoly Problem
Cheerleading is a huge part of American culture. It’s also an expensive sport, especially after a company called Varsity Brands bought the National Cheerleader...
Data-Driven Ideology: The Problem With Economists' Takeover of Policymaking
According to New York Times journalist Binyamin Appelbaum's recent book The Economists' Hour, economics is not the unbiased science that it pretends to be, but...
