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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Dec. 16–22)
This week in political economy.
Eric Schmidt is stepping down as executive chairman of Alphabet, the parent company of Google. Schmidt, who joined Google...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Dec. 2–Dec. 9)
The stories that most interested us this week.
David Sirota and Josh Keefe of International Business Times reveal that Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS)...
Will Repeal of Net Neutrality Accelerate the Trend in Media Consolidation? The History of Cable Suggests "Yes"
The history of cable and cable programming strongly suggests that without specific FCC safeguards, we can expect a massive “arms race” by providers to...
Tyler Cowen: Complacent Americans Can’t Imagine a Future Unlike the Present
In conversation with Stigler Center director Luigi Zingales, Tyler Cowen—one of the brains behind the world’s most popular economics blog, Marginal Revolution—argues that a...
The DOJ Has a Strong Case Against the AT&T-Time Warner Merger
If the merging parties are true to their many tough public statements, and they stick the litigation out long-term, the odds are not bad...
“There Are Good Grounds for Being Very Cynical About Western Elites”
Ahead of his visit to the Stigler Center on October 25, Edward Luce, Washington columnist for the Financial Times and author of The Retreat of...
“In Just About Every Generation, Many People Thought the American Republic was on the Verge of Collapse”
The second installment of our two-part interview with Harvard Business School professor David Moss about his recent book Democracy: A Case Study. "One of the reasons...
How to Defeat Populist Plutocrats? “Build a Counter-Narrative”
Beppe Severgnini, one of the most influential journalists in Italy, talks to ProMarket about what the U.S. can learn from Italy on how to defeat...
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...
Bo Rothstein Explains Why He Resigned From Oxford Over Donor's Link to Donald Trump
In an interview with ProMarket, Swedish political scientist Bo Rothstein explains why he decided to resign from the Blavatnik School of Government after learning...
