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The Aristocracy of Talent: Business Intelligence

Adrian Wooldridge
In the following excerpt from his new book, The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, Adrian Wooldridge traces "how universities...
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Antitrust and Competition

Let’s Not Forget George Stigler’s Lessons about Regulatory Capture

Susan E. Dudley
George Stigler’s theory of economic regulation opened our eyes to the rent-seeking that undermines the public interest. Yet many in positions to...
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Antitrust and Competition

GameStop, the Cantillon Effect, and America’s Corrupt Financial Plumbing

Matt Stoller
The GameStop frenzy, far from a morality tale of the people showing up Wall Street elites, should show that something is seriously...
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The Effects of Student Debt Forgiveness

Marco Di Maggio
While student loan forgiveness is undoubtedly expensive, research suggests that individuals whose debt is forgiven get better jobs, experience higher mobility, and...
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How Should We Finance Higher Education If Not Through Student Debt? A New Capitalisn’t Episode

Bethany McLean
In a new episode of Capitalisn’t, Luigi Zingales and Bethany McLean take a look at the student debt crisis: How did we...
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Income-Driven Repayment Provides a Way to Offer Student Loan Forgiveness to Those Who Need It the Most

Constantine Yannelis
Direct loan cancellation is not the only policy option to lower student debt. If policymakers want more targeted loan forgiveness, aimed at lower income...
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Antitrust and Competition

Institution Man: How Corporations Came to Dominate the US Economy

Nicholas Lemann
In the first chapter of his book Transaction Man, Nicholas Lemann explores how Adolf Berle, author of The Modern Corporation and Private...
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eBook: Milton Friedman 50 Years Later, a Reevaluation

ProMarket writers
Over the past couple of months, ProMarket has hosted a lively debate on whether Milton Friedman was right or wrong when he...
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Capitalisn’t Is Back: Can Economists and Journalists Work Together to Improve Capitalism?

Luigi Zingales, Bethany McLean
Is capitalism the engine of prosperity, or is it the engine of destruction? On this podcast, we talk about the ways capitalism...
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Should Small Businesses Consider Bankruptcy? A New Capitalisn’t Reading List

ProMarket writers
The coronavirus has taken a heavy toll on most businesses, but it has been especially hard on small businesses. Should those businesses...
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Antitrust and Competition

The New Challenges of Assessing Big Tech’s Impact

Michael Gofman, Zhao Jin
Big Tech firms are facing the biggest wave of antitrust legislation in their history. Academic literature reveals the complexity of possible consequences...
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News

The Metaphysics of Regulatory Capture

Karthik Ramanna
Stiglerian capture and corrosive cultural capture, its left-leaning parallel, are ostensibly symbionts, two attempts at identifying impediments to keeping markets competitive by...
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The Aristocracy of Talent: Business Intelligence

Adrian Wooldridge
In the following excerpt from his new book, The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, Adrian Wooldridge traces "how universities...
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Antitrust and Competition

Why Privacy Experts Need a Place at the Antitrust Table

Cristina Caffarra, Johnny Ryan
Antitrust enforcers have tended to stay narrowly “in their lane,” failing to engage with how data is collected and used by digital...
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News

Assessing George Stigler’s Economic Theory of Regulation

Cary Coglianese
Despite its flaws and limitations, Stigler’s seminal article on the theory of economic regulation remains an important piece of scholarship worthy of...
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Economic History Series

“Old Chicago” and Freiburg: Why Ordoliberalism Was No “German Oddity”

Stefan Kolev, Ekkehard A. Köhler
Both the Chicago and Freiburg schools faced systemic fragility as the crucial property of societal orders. It was this fragility that served...
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Commentary

The Many Faces of Stigler’s Theory of Economic Regulation: Interest Group Politics Still Thrives—But Industry Often Comes Second

Richard Epstein
Stigler treats industry groups as the heavyweights in regulatory contests. But surprisingly often groups of farmers and workers knock them for a...
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