Roosevelt

Inflation, Corporate Power, and the Forgotten New Deal

A forgotten aspect of the New Deal is that it took place amid inflation and rising prices. Contemporary debates over inflation and whether corporate greed...

A New Antitrust Under Biden? Lessons From the Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt

The early history of the Sherman Antitrust Act offers relevant insights to contemporary debates on how to best enforce antitrust laws. In...

How the Tension Between Big Business and Antitrust Will Reshape Post-Covid America

Big Business is going to be structuring the response to the pandemic, at least temporarily. A new generation of leaders and thinkers...

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ESG

Capitalism Does Not Require a Tradeoff Between Planet and Profit

Alessio Terzi

Critics of capitalism claim that the economic system incorrigibly encourages the exploitation of the planet and is thus incompatible with efforts to...

Academic Capture

Academic Bias Under the Microscope

Andy Shi

That scholarship often reflects conscious and unconscious biases has long been an open secret in academia. On April 22, Professors Christian Leuz,...

Money in Politics

Corporations Are Not “We the People”

Geoffrey R. Stone

The Citizens United ruling contradicts the Founders, decades of Supreme Court precedent and the will of the American people.

Antitrust and Competition

Too Many Economists Are Using a Flawed Theory To Defend Dominant Platforms’ Self-Preferencing Practices

David J. Balan

Congress is currently considering two major bills that would regulate “self-preferencing” and related conduct by dominant digital platforms. Criticism of these bills...

Antitrust and Competition

Unfair Methods of Competition

Cory Doctorow

The FTC’s new policy on unfair methods of competition is an assertion of the original purpose of the agency, allowing it to...