Economists Harold Demsetz and Israel Kirzner challenged the prevailing orthodoxy in microeconomic analysis and public policy beginning with their respective work in...

Commentary

Electoral College Reform: New Problems or Real Solutions?

Laurent Bouton, Micael Castanheira, Garance Genicot

Each electoral system creates specific incentives to (mis)allocate government resources. Would putting the National Popular Vote (NPV) in lieu of the Electoral...

No related posts.

Tags
The New York Times

Facebook

Twitter

Previous articleSenate Committee Advances Big Tech Critic Lina Khan’s Nomination to the FTC

Next articleAds Are Impersonating Government Websites in Google Results, Despite Ban

LATEST NEWS

Antitrust and Competition

George Stigler on Henry Simons, “Crown Prince” of the Chicago School

George Stigler

To mark 75 years since the passing of Henry Simons, professor of Economics and Law at the University of Chicago, ProMarket is...

Commentary

Electoral College Reform: New Problems or Real Solutions?

Laurent Bouton, Micael Castanheira, Garance Genicot

Each electoral system creates specific incentives to (mis)allocate government resources. Would putting the National Popular Vote (NPV) in lieu of the Electoral...

Antitrust and Competition

When Do Users Benefit From Platform Mergers?

Chiara Farronato, Jessica Fong, Andrey Fradkin

A new paper shows that platform mergers can harness network effects at the cost of reducing the platform differentiation that users value.

Economic History Series

Harold Demsetz and Israel Kirzner Understood That Competition Regulates Markets

Peter J. Boettke, Rosolino A. Candela

Economists Harold Demsetz and Israel Kirzner challenged the prevailing orthodoxy in microeconomic analysis and public policy beginning with their respective work in...

Antitrust and Competition

The Covid-19 Pandemic Should Not Delay Actions to Prevent Anticompetitive Consolidation in US Health Care Markets

Leemore Dafny

Harvard Business School professor Leemore Dafny lays out potential reforms to assist agencies in halting anticompetitive acquisitions and practices, and to preserve...

Antitrust and Competition

Who Benefits From Competitive State-Level Legislatures?

Manav Raj

A new paper finds that when interparty competition in state legislatures is high, well-connected and influential incumbent firms are best able to...

Corporate Governance

No More “Mystery Meat”: Why We Need Better Corporate Governance Data

Jens Frankenreiter, Cathy Hwang, Yaron Nili, Eric Talley

Three decades of finance, economics, and legal studies in corporate governance have been built substantially on data sets with nearly unknown provenance....

Economic History Series

How Protests Against the Jim Crow Credit Market Changed the Civil Rights Movement

Mehrsa Baradaran

Before the civil rights movement captured the nation’s attention, activists and community groups were protesting against exploitative credit and exclusionary lending practices...

Corporate Governance

George Stigler and the Challenge of Democracy

Anat Admati

We are all victims of what George Stigler described as “the pervasive use of state support of special groups” and of governance...

Antitrust and Competition

More Than 20 Years of Consolidation Have Led to a Dysfunctional Health Care Market

Martin Gaynor

The US health care system is based on markets, which do not function as well as they could, or should. Prices are...

No related posts.

As Trillions Flow Out the Door, Stimulus Oversight Faces Challenges

Popular This Week

George Stigler on Henry Simons, “Crown Prince” of the Chicago School

When Do Users Benefit From Platform Mergers?

Harold Demsetz and Israel Kirzner Understood That Competition Regulates Markets

Electoral College Reform: New Problems or Real Solutions?

LATEST NEWS

George Stigler on Henry Simons, “Crown Prince” of the Chicago School

Electoral College Reform: New Problems or Real Solutions?

When Do Users Benefit From Platform Mergers?

Harold Demsetz and Israel Kirzner Understood That Competition Regulates Markets

The Covid-19 Pandemic Should Not Delay Actions to Prevent Anticompetitive Consolidation in US Health Care Markets

Who Benefits From Competitive State-Level Legislatures?

No More “Mystery Meat”: Why We Need Better Corporate Governance Data

How Protests Against the Jim Crow Credit Market Changed the Civil Rights Movement

George Stigler and the Challenge of Democracy

More Than 20 Years of Consolidation Have Led to a Dysfunctional Health Care Market

About Us

Categories