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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...
Antitrust and Competition

“We Were Naïve,” Says FCC Chair Who Oversaw the Creation of Section 230

Guy Rolnik
In an interview with ProMarket, former FCC chair Reed Hundt spoke about antitrust, Big Tech platforms, the future of the 1996 provision that provided legal protection...
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...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Over 60 Leading Finance Economists Ask SEC to Revise the Shareholder Voting Draft Reform

ProMarket writers
The new regulation that Security and Exchange Commissioners voted in November doesn't fix proxy advisory industry duopoly problems, but it actually makes them worse:...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

New Rules on Shareholder Voting Debate: Best Readers' Comment

James McRitchie
The draft SEC regulation on shareholder proposal and proxy advisory firms will curb the initiative of individual shareholders to improve corporate governance and transparency...
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...
Academic Capture

Corporations and the Rise of the Chicago Law and Economics Movement

Robert Van Horn
From its birth in 1946 onward, corporations made possible and crucially supported the rise of the Chicago law and economics movement. Aaron Director,...
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