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Income Inequality

Chile's Fall From Grace Shows the Failures of Neoliberalism

Branko Milanovic
For many years, Chile’s economic growth and transition to democracy have made it the poster boy for neoliberalism. The current wave of protests highlights...
Money in Politics

The Other Side of Trump's Shadow Diplomacy: After Ukraine, Quid Pro Quo in Italy Too?

Stefano Feltri
The White House asked the Italian government for support in its "investigation on the investigators" to prove the existence of a Democratic plot against...
Academic Capture

The Harvard Admission Lawsuit Decision Does Not Answer the Main Question: What Are Top Universities For?

Stefano Feltri
A judge ruled this month that Harvard does not discriminate against Asian-American applicants, according to its own criteria. But what kind of students do...
Antitrust and Competition

The Humbling of Mark Zuckerberg

Asher Schechter
Zuckerberg's Congressional testimony this week illustrated just how much Facebook's top brass still underestimate the public anger against the company. Congress, however, is still...
Antitrust and Competition

How Economic Concentration and Crony Capitalism Led to the Chaos in Chile

Daniel Matamala
The signals of unrest in Chile mounted for years amid corruption scandals, rising inequality, and new monopolies. The fare increase on public transport that...
Antitrust and Competition

How the “Watergate Babies” Released the Beast of Monopoly Upon America

Matt Stoller
Why did Washington respond to the 2008 financial crisis by pushing even more wealth and power into the hands of the same people that...
Money in Politics

What’s Really at Stake in Poland’s Elections: Nativists Want to Impose a New, Anti-Liberal Notion of Normalcy

Stefania Bernini
Religion is the new priority for anti-liberal, anti-free-trade populist parties in Europe. A victory by Poland’s nativist Law and Justice (PiS) party will pose a...
Academic Capture

Economics’ Lack of Interest in Gender Proves: the “Dismal Science” Really Is Dismal

Renée Adams
Economists are still in the dark about the role of gender. For economics to be credible, we have to recognize that our knowledge is...
Academic Capture

Uber and the Sherlock Holmes Principle: How Control of Data Can Lead to Biased Academic Research

Luigi Zingales
How can we ensure that academic journals do not become an unintended instrument in the PR efforts of powerful firms? Luigi Zingales offers some...
Academic Capture

Aaron Director and the Empirical Foundation for the Chicago Attitude on Antitrust

Daniel Kuehn
Empirical evidence, not just disembodied theory, was an important building block of Director’s view that competition could defeat concentration, writes Daniel Kuehn. Editor's note: Aaron...
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