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What Accounts for the Gender Equality Among Pharmacists?

Claudia Goldin
In her new book Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity, Harvard Professor Claudia Goldin traces how generations of women have...
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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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Capitalisn't

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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Academic Capture

Academic Gatekeepers, Real and Imagined, Are Threatening the Credibility of the Field of Political Finance 


Renée Adams
One objective of political finance is to hold power to account. However, gatekeeping, both direct and indirect, is keeping important work from...
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News

A Call for Comments: Have You Been Affected by Academic Gatekeeping?

Luigi Zingales
On Friday, ProMarket published a piece by Renée Adams about the impact of academic gatekeeping in the political finance. Do you have...
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Antitrust and Competition

How Big Data Fuels Big Tech’s Anticompetitive Conduct and Gatekeeping Power

Charlotte Slaiman
Achieving a truly open internet is only possible through robust online competition free from the control of today’s digital gatekeepers like Facebook...
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Antitrust and Competition

The Corporate Power Narrative: How Corporations Benefit from Economic Globalization

Anthea Roberts, Nicolas Lamp
In an excerpt from their new book, Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters, Anthea Roberts and...
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Corporate Governance

Managers Should Satisfy Only the Ethically Permissible Preferences of Shareholders

Santiago Mejia
Oliver Hart and Luigi Zingales have proposed a revision to the dominant model of the objective of the firm, most famously defended...
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Economic History Series

Plagues Upon the Earth: How Wealth Intersects With Mortality

Kyle Harper
Kyle Harper’s new book, Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History, shows that the story of disease is...
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Capitalisn't

What Accounts for the Gender Equality Among Pharmacists?

Claudia Goldin
In her new book Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity, Harvard Professor Claudia Goldin traces how generations of women have...
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