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ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

"Political Engagement by Corporations Derives from and is Focused on Seeking Monopolistic Power"

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In this installment of ProMarket’s new interview series, Harvard Business School professor emeritus Joseph Bower shares some thoughts on rent-seeking, politics, and the role of corporations...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

“So Long As Corporate Managers See Their Objective as Maximizing Returns, Rent-Seeking and Regulatory Capture Will Persist”

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In this installment of ProMarket’s new interview series on the economic theory of the firm, Harvard Business School professor Lynn Paine discusses the role of corporations and...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

“The Ability of Companies to Subvert the Operating Rules for the Market is a Deep, Systematic, Durable Force”

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In this installment of ProMarket’s new interview series, we ask Harvard Business School professor Herman "Dutch" Leonard about the involvement of corporations in politics...
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Reader Survey: ProMarket Celebrates Its One-Year Anniversary

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As ProMarket enters its second year of operation, we would like to understand what you, our readers, have liked about our blog and what...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

“Under President Trump and the Republican Congress, Banks Will Have Even More Ability to Write Regulations That Favor Them”

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In this installment of ProMarket’s new interview series on the economic theory of the firm, we ask University of Connecticut law professor and blogger James Kwak if...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Bengt Holmstrom: "I'm More Concerned About the Economic Power of the Most Valuable Companies Than Their Political Power"

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In this installment of ProMarket’s new interview series, Nobel laureate Bengt Holmstrom says “this may be the right time to look at political engagement...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

“Political Engagement by Corporations Would Be Far Down the List of Forces Responsible for Popular Discontent”

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The third installment in ProMarket’s new interview series on the economic theory of the firm. In this installment, we ask Chicago Booth’s Steven Kaplan...
Money in Politics

Stigler Center Lecture: Is American Democracy in Trouble?

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David Moss, the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School, will examine the health of American democracy from a historical perspective. Fears about extreme...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Theory of the Firm Interview Series: John Van Reenen

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The second installment in ProMarket’s new interview series: Should the economic theory of the firm be modified? If so, how? In this installment, we...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Interview Series: How Incomplete is the Theory of the Firm? Q&A with Daniel Carpenter

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Should the economic theory of the firm be modified? If so, how? In March, the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School...
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