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Money in Politics

While the conventional debate usually revolves around the amount of campaign donations each candidate receives (how much), we spotlight also issues such as the concentration of donations (who donates), or more stealth forms of money in politics such as lobbying.

Antitrust and Competition

How Allowing a Little Bit of Dissent Helps the Chinese Government Control Social Media

Zhenqi Jessie Liu
A new study on three major social networks in China finds that tolerating small, relatively free platforms helps the Chinese government maintain sufficiently high...
Antitrust and Competition

Why an Antimonopoly Movement Is the Kind of Populism That Chile Needs

Daniel Matamala
President Piñera's approval rating has reached a record low, not just for the Chilean democracy, but for all of South America. The rise of...
Income Inequality

A New Capitalisn't Episode: The Controversial Tax Policies Of Emmanuel Saez

ProMarket writers
In a new episode of their podcast Capitalisn't, Luigi Zingales and Kate Waldock interview UC Berkeley professor Emmanuel Saez on tax policy, the wealth...
Money in Politics

Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren: The Real Impact of Democratic Candidates' Tax Plans

Emmanuel Saez
According to UC Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, all of the Democratic candidates' plans increase tax rates on the rich but to...
Academic Capture

Data-Driven Ideology: The Problem With Economists' Takeover of Policymaking

Stefano Feltri
According to New York Times journalist Binyamin Appelbaum's recent book The Economists' Hour, economics is not the unbiased science that it pretends to be, but...
Money in Politics

How Do Members of Congress React to the Potential of Lucrative Private Sector Employment?

Benjamin C.K. Egerod
Many fear that the potential for well-paid post-elective jobs can make legislators give rewards to their future employers. A new study finds that career...
Income Inequality

Emmanuel Saez: Saying Inequality Has Not Increased in the US "the Equivalent of Being a Climate Change Denier”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket ahead of his upcoming Stigler Center visit this week, UC Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez discussed the impact of the...
Antitrust and Competition

How to Change Section 230 and Make Digital Platforms More Accountable

ProMarket writers
If elected, former Vice President and current Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden promised to "revoke immediately" the 1996 provision that gave tech companies like...
Academic Capture

The Epstein Report: How a Convicted Criminal Could Use MIT to Whitewash His Reputation

Stefano Feltri
The only reason why a pedophile's donations did not violate any MIT policy is that MIT does not have any policy to prevent embarrassing...
Antitrust and Competition

Should We Let Facebook Decide the Next President of the United States?

Stefano Feltri
Facebook admitted that only a binding regulation on political ads could prevent private corporations from influencing the outcome of US presidential elections. Without such...
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