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Should Central Banks Have Constraints During a Crisis? A Mini-Course With Paul Tucker (Part 1)

The Federal Reserve and the ECB have been taking unprecedented steps to react to the financial impact of Covid-19. To frame the debate around the...
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The Road to Digital Serfdom? The Visible Hand of Surveillance Capitalism

Surveillance capitalism is not the capitalism of old, writes Harvard professor emerita Shoshana Zuboff in her new book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.     Surveillance capitalism departs...
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Paul Tucker on Unelected Power: A Technocrat against Technocracy

In a recent review of Paul Tucker’s new book Unelected Power (extracted here for ProMarket), Diane Coyle of the University of Manchester and the...
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Antitrust and Competition

Dark Money Dominates Spending by Special Interest Groups and Sways Elections

Matthew Denes, Madeline Marco Scanlon, Florian Schulz
New research on undisclosed and unlimited political contributions, or dark money, exposes the increasing role that such funds play in U.S. elections.
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Antitrust and Competition

The “Conspiracy” of Consumer Welfare Theory

Darren Bush, Mark Glick
Matt Stoller argues there was a conspiracy. It was more of an association with a singular purpose.
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Antitrust and Competition

Researchers Find Reduced Competition After Pandemic

Brooke Fox
The chart of the week comes from a new research paper that documents the increase in small business closures during the Covid...
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Voters Still Believe Politics is About the Common Good, Not Just Rent-Seeking

Chad Kendall, John G. Matsusaka
Do voters still believe that politics can be a source for common-good policies and not just partisan bickering and rent-seeking? With political...
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Antitrust and Competition

How to Design Data Protection Laws That Actually Work 

Filippo Lancieri
More and more countries are passing data protection laws, yet empirical studies show that these laws rarely deliver on their promises. A...
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