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Money in Politics

Can “Productive Tensions” Save American Democracy Again?

Guy Rolnik
This is the first installment of a two-part interview we had with David Moss about his recently published book Democracy: A Case Study, which contains...
Regulatory Capture

Bo Rothstein Explains Why He Resigned From Oxford Over Donor's Link to Donald Trump

Guy Rolnik
In an interview with ProMarket, Swedish political scientist Bo Rothstein explains why he decided to resign from the Blavatnik School of Government after learning...
Money in Politics

Raghuram Rajan: Populist Nationalism Is “the First Step Toward Crony Capitalism”

Asher Schechter
The former governor of the Reserve Bank of India discussed the “concentrated and devastating” impact that technology and trade had on blue-collar communities, the anger...
Regulatory Capture

Call for Proposals: 10th Anniversary of the Global Financial Crisis

ProMarket writers
The Initiative on Global Markets (IGM) and the Stigler Center are organizing a conference on the causes, as well as the key players and...
Regulatory Capture

Bribery, Cooperation, and the Evolution of Prosocial Institutions

Michael Muthukrishna
How the science of cooperation and cultural evolution will give us new tools in combating corruption.     There is nothing natural((Putting aside what it means for...
Money in Politics

The Berlusconi Voter, Taken Seriously: a Little Exercise in Historical Comprehension

Giovanni Orsina
The Berlusconi phenomenon in Italy both anticipated and exhibits features that epitomize the plight of Western politics.     This is the third installment of ProMarket’s new article...
Regulatory Capture

Eliot Spitzer: The Democratic Party Has Become the Party of the Status Quo

Guy Rolnik
Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer talks about antitrust, digital platforms, economic concentration, and regulatory capture. Part 2 of 2.      In the first part of...
Money in Politics

The Big Picture: Clientelism, Plutocracy, and Democratization

Francesco Trebbi
Why is the electoral process not enough to rid nations of pathological political distortions such as cronyism and corruption?   This is the second installment of ProMarket’s...
Regulatory Capture

Eliot Spitzer: The U.S. Never Had the Will and the Ability to Hold the Most Powerful to Account

Guy Rolnik
In a special interview with ProMarket, former New York governor Eliot Spitzer talks about financial regulation, regulatory capture, and antitrust. Part 1 of 2.   Clear rules and...
Money in Politics

Populist Plutocrats as a Political Phenomenon

Matthew Stephenson
How can a rich man successfully pose as a representative of the poor and the disenfranchised and become the leader of a populist movement?...
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