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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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Capitalisn't

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

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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Capitalisn't

Should We Defund the Police? A New Capitalisn’t Reading List

ProMarket writers
In this episode of the Capitalisn't podcast, Kate and Luigi take an economist's look at the concept of defunding the police.
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Capitalisn't

A New Capitalisn’t Episode: The Risk Of Reopening – a Reading List

ProMarket writers
Despite warnings from government and health officials, some states are choosing to begin reopening their economies this week by ending lockdown restrictions. In this...
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Capitalisn't

A New Capitalisn’t Episode: Where Does the Money Come From? With Special Guest Eugene Fama

ProMarket writers
As Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales predicted in a previous episode, the government is running out of money and will ask Congress for additional...
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Capitalisn't

A New Capitalisn’t Episode: How to Exit the Covid-19 Quarantine – a Reading List

ProMarket writers
For the good of public health, it's important that we continue staying in quarantine, at least for another month or two. But eventually, we...
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Bailout

A New Capitalisn’t Episode: Winners and Losers in the Stimulus Bill – a Reading List

ProMarket writers
In order to combat the coronavirus, Congress has passed a $2 trillion stimulus bill that targets individuals, small businesses, and large corporations. From an...
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Capitalisn't

A New Capitalisn’t Episode, Featuring Paul Krugman: A Reading List

ProMarket writers
On this episode, Kate and Luigi talk with Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman about his new book Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the...
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Reversing the “Resource Curse” with Foreign Corruption Regulation

Thomas Rauter
Anti-corruption regulation originating in developed countries is effective in changing corporate behavior and has a positive economic impact on developing countries.
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COMMENTARIES

The Death of Hong Kong’s Rule of Law

Benny Tai
Hong Kong's rule of law has suffered a fatal blow. With the national security law, the authoritarian regime has all that it...
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News

President-Elect Joe Biden and the Real Lessons of DuPont

Guy Rolnik, Roy Shapira
Simply talking corporate America into being more responsible is not enough. It may get corporations to talk the talk, but not to...
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Corporate Governance

How Companies Spin Off Environmental Liabilities to Avoid Legal Obligations

David F. Larcker, Andrew Baker, Brian Tayan
Environmental externalities are vexing for corporate decision makers, but some companies have figured out a way to deal with them: a spinoff....
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Coronavirus

How Pfizer’s Vaccine Announcement Demonstrates the Political Power of Firms

John M. Barrios, Luigi Zingales
By timing the disclosure of the results of its vaccine trial, Pfizer could have influenced the 2020 presidential election. This is worrisome...
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Antitrust and Competition

The Useful Distraction of Section 230

David Carroll
How the red-herring of a politicized Section 230 and “conservative censorship” distracts from a bipartisan national privacy act.
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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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