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Announcing the Participants in the 2018 Stigler Center Journalist in Residence Program

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From March, the Stigler Center will welcome eight world-class journalists from Canada, Chile, China, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States for an...
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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Dec. 22– Jan. 5)

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This week in political economy.    In Project Syndicate, Joseph Stiglitz writes about the GOP’s recently-passed tax package, which he dubs “The US Donor Relief...
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What’s Capitalism Got Going for It—and Against It? A New Podcast, Capitalisn’t, Tallies the Score

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“Capitalism is the engine of prosperity.” “Capitalism sows the seeds of its own demise.” Could both things be true? Economists Kate Waldock and Luigi...
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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Dec. 16–22)

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This week in political economy.        Eric Schmidt is stepping down as executive chairman of Alphabet, the parent company of Google. Schmidt, who joined Google...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Wondering How Your Financial Advisors Rank for Misconduct? There’s a Web App for That

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A new site created by ProMarket board member Amit Seru (Stanford) and co-authors Mark Egan (Harvard) and Gregor Matvos (UT Austin) offers free data and...
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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Dec. 9–Dec. 16)

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This week in political economy.      House and Senate Republicans released the final version of their tax bill late Friday afternoon. The Washington Post breaks...
Regulatory Capture

George Stigler and How Freshwater Economics Won the Day

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Colleagues and protégés reminisce about the late George Stigler and his impact on the development of economic thought. Since they first rose to mainstream prominence in the...
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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Dec. 2–Dec. 9)

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The stories that most interested us this week.           David Sirota and Josh Keefe of International Business Times reveal that Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS)...
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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Nov. 27–Dec. 2)

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The stories that most interested us this week.         The Senate approved the Republican tax bill last night following a series of last-minute amendments, paving the way...
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Zingales: Too Much Power in the Hands of Big Tech Could Distort American Democracy

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Watch comments by Luigi Zingales from the recent AEI Panel  "Should Washington Break Up Big Tech?” The excessive concentration of power in the hands of the...
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