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Covid-19

Election Timetabling Is Not the Role of Judges

Karthik Ramanna
As wrong as it is that the Wisconsin elections were held under patently unsafe conditions, it is not the place of the courts to...
Covid-19

Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: YouTube, Food Banks and AI

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.  No, this isn't about financial malfeasance, and...
Covid-19

How to Avoid a Mass of Business Bankruptcies: Two Policy Proposals

Eric Zwick
Existing fiscal and monetary policies are powerless to restore firms’ revenues during this health emergency. Many firms will soon begin having trouble meeting their...
Covid-19

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...
Covid-19

Deaths of Despair and Covid-19: a Webinar With Angus Deaton and Luigi Zingales

ProMarket writers
Deaths of despair are a slow disintegration of working-class lives: Will the coronavirus accelerate this process? In a conversion with Luigi Zingales, Nobel laureate...
Antitrust and Competition

The Populist Right Has a Plan to Take Power Away From Financiers and Challenge China

Matt Stoller
The nationalist rhetoric of the Trump administration can obscure a more sophisticated recognition by some people in the populist world that the core dynamic...
Covid-19

Trump Voters Were More Reluctant to Acknowledge the Seriousness of the Pandemic and Adapt Their Behavior Accordingly

Yael Hochberg
Using data on individuals' search behavior and cellphone movement data, a new study shows that areas with a high share of Trump voters began...
Covid-19

Covid Economics: The Marcoeconomic Impact of the Pandemic and Policy Responses

Joost Sijthoff
ProMarket reviews the most recent and interesting academic papers on the ongoing pandemic: One paper argues that people do not always fully internalize the...
Antitrust and Competition

Zoom, Netflix, Slack: Amazon Is Behind All the Services We Use to Work From Home (and That’s a Problem)

Daniel A. Hanley
The new normal for millions of people represents a near-total dependence on Amazon’s cloud-computing operation, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and places a substantial portion...
Covid-19

MBA Students Against Corporate America: “Stop Lobbying the White House on the Defense Production Act”

Stefano Feltri
Since the virus outbreak, the US Chamber of Commerce has lobbied the federal government to limit the use of a piece of legislation that...
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