Culture & Society

How and When to Restart the Economy: a Webinar with Nobel Laureate Paul Romer

Princeton Professor Markus Brunnermeier and Nobel laureate economist Paul Romer explore what options we have to stop the pandemic and recover economic activities. Is...

How Governments Can Harness Private Donations in the Fight Against Covid-19

Private donations alone cannot do much to tackle the Covid-19 health care emergency, but a more efficient allocation of this form of funding could...

From Borrowing to Stockpiling: How The Virus Outbreak Changed American Household Consumption

The first academic study of American consumers' reaction to the pandemic finds that total spending rose by half between February 26 and March 11,...

Covid Economics: Social Distancing and the Relevant Benefits of Cost-Benefit Analysis

ProMarket reviews the most recent and interesting academic papers on the ongoing pandemic: Michael Greenstone and Vishan Nigam of the University of Chicago estimate that...

Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Covid-19 Models, Grocery Stores, and Bank Robberies

Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.      Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics. Maybe we...

How Many Jobs Can Be Done at Home? In the United States, It’s 37 percent

Evaluating the economic impact of "social distancing" measures taken to arrest the spread of Covid-19 raises a fundamental question about the modern economy: How...

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

In order to combat the coronavirus, Congress has passed a $2 trillion stimulus bill that targets individuals, small businesses, and large corporations. From an...

Why We Can Be Optimistic About the Long-Term Impact of the “Covid Economy”

In the short run, we have to save lives and hibernate the economy. In the longer term we will have slower, but important changes....

The Danger of No Antitrust Enforcement: How a Merger Led to the US Ventilator Shortage

In order to enhance its market power, a large medical device manufacturer and distributor named Covidien bought up the small and competitive Newport Medical...

“The Way Insurance Companies Have Rigged Our Health Care System, They’re Probably Going to Emerge as Financial Winners from This”

Author and former health insurance executive Wendell Potter explains to ProMarket why the employer-based health care system in the US is “collapsing” and why health...

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