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What is the Connection Between Collective Bargaining and Police Officer Misconduct? Evidence from Florida

Dhammika Dharmapala
A working paper finds that after sheriffs’ deputies in Florida were allowed to unionize, violent incidents increased by 40 percent. In the aftermath of the...
Income Inequality

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. "Defund the police" has...
Commentary

How to Get Police Reform Done? Use Direct Democracy

John G. Matsusaka
Instead of just imploring their representatives to fix things, Americans can use the tools of direct democracy to take charge and promote meaningful policing...
Covid-19

Revenge of the Experts: Will Covid-19 Diminish Trust in Science and Scientists?

Cevat Giray Aksoy
It is often argued that the Covid-19 pandemic will reverse the ongoing trend of diminishing trust in science and scientists. A new paper finds...
Commentary

Break Up the Police

Luigi Zingales
In most cities in America, it is not the police that answers to the mayors, but the mayors to the police. The only solution...
Covid-19

The Economic and Social Implications of Racial Disparities: A Webinar With Lisa Cook

ProMarket writers
Michigan State University professor Lisa Cook joined Princeton’s Bendheim Center for Finance to discuss how violence impacts innovation, as well as the economic and...
Commentary

Why Economic Predictions Are Useless Right Now

Branko Milanovic
The Covid-19 crisis is unprecedented in its global scope and open-ended, uncontrollable progress. By their very nature, the models that economists often use to...
Antitrust and Competition

Covid-19 and Amazon’s Future: a Webinar With Stacy Mitchell, Steven Kaplan, and Jacob Schlesinger

ProMarket writers
As part of the Stigler Center’s Political Economy of Covid-19 Series of online programming, which explores the economic and political implications of Covid-19 with...
Covid-19

How Were the PPP’s $660 Billion for Small and Medium Firms Allocated?

John M. Barrios
A new study suggests that the Payroll Protection Program's funds were primarily allocated based on 2019’s estimated payroll, which is how the program was...
Covid-19

When and How the US Should Reopen Is a Matter of Politics, Trust in Institutions and Media, Survey Says

Marianne Bertrand
A new survey from the Rustandy Center and the Poverty Lab at the University of Chicago finds that political party affiliation and trust in...
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