Georg Rilinger
Georg is an economic sociologist who studies how and why opportunities and incentives for socially destructive behavior emerge in markets. In his current project, he pursues these questions by analyzing the California energy crisis of 2000/01 as a case of failed market design. In the past, he has studied how criminal conspiracies manage to avoid regulatory oversight. Since October of 2020, he has been working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Prior to returning to Germany, he received a PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago where he was a Bradley Fellow at the Stigler Center.
Antitrust and Competition
The Texas Blackouts and the Problems of Electricity Market Design
Even in an ideal electricity market, reliability is an elusive and precarious byproduct of companies’ search for profits. Since market designers are...
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Corporate Governance
The Social Responsibility of Business Includes Profits
Profits these days are often seen as a dirty word, but it is wrong to demonize profits. A company’s responsibility is not...
News
Academic Gatekeepers, Real and Imagined, Are Threatening the Credibility of the Field of Political Finance 

One objective of political finance is to hold power to account. However, gatekeeping, both direct and indirect, is keeping important work from...
News
A Call for Comments: Have You Been Affected by Academic Gatekeeping?
On Friday, ProMarket published a piece by Renée Adams about the impact of academic gatekeeping in the political finance. Do you have...
Antitrust and Competition
How Big Data Fuels Big Tech’s Anticompetitive Conduct and Gatekeeping Power
Achieving a truly open internet is only possible through robust online competition free from the control of today’s digital gatekeepers like Facebook...
Antitrust and Competition
The Corporate Power Narrative: How Corporations Benefit from Economic Globalization
In an excerpt from their new book, Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters, Anthea Roberts and...
Corporate Governance
Managers Should Satisfy Only the Ethically Permissible Preferences of Shareholders
Oliver Hart and Luigi Zingales have proposed a revision to the dominant model of the objective of the firm, most famously defended...
Economic History Series
Plagues Upon the Earth: How Wealth Intersects With Mortality
Kyle Harper’s new book, Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History, shows that the story of disease is...
