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Effective media scrutiny can help mitigate many of the problems that lead to regulatory capture, by helping the polity to become informed and mobilized. But what are the conditions that create effective media scrutiny? And why do we observe so little of it in reality?
“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” Justice Louis D. Brandeis

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Announcing the Participants in the Spring 2022 Stigler Center Journalists in Residence Program

ProMarket writers
Next month, the Stigler Center will welcome eight world-class journalists from Nigeria, Brazil, Chile, Italy, India, Canada, and the United States for an intensive...
Antitrust and Competition

The Best Political Economy Books of 2021

Asher Schechter
A scholarly examination of market’s power toll on American workers, the collected works of a pioneering economic thinker, an ambitious narrative of US economic...
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The Present and Future of Journalism: How the News Media Lost Its Purpose

Martin Gurri
At a time of information overabundance, journalism has lost its purpose. Newspapers, traditionally the keepers of journalistic flame, are going away. What does the...
Antitrust and Competition

Announcing the Participants in the Fall 2021 Stigler Center Journalists in Residence Program

ProMarket writers
This month, the Stigler Center will welcome eight world-class journalists from the United Kingdom, Brazil, China, Romania, Ukraine, Slovenia, and the United States for...
Antitrust and Competition

“This Isn’t the Kind of Journalism That Serves Democracy Best”: How Place and Privilege Came to Define American News

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor Nikki Usher discusses how news in the US came to be produced and...
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ProMarket Reader Survey: We Want Your Feedback

ProMarket writers
As ProMarket enters its sixth year of operation, we would like to understand what you, our readers, like about it and what can be...
Antitrust and Competition

Why Are Google and Facebook Now Okay with Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code?

Derek Wilding
A week of commercial deals and government negotiations has resulted in a series of amendments to the legislation aimed at making Google and Facebook...
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How Should We Finance Higher Education If Not Through Student Debt? A New Capitalisn’t Episode

Bethany McLean
In a new episode of Capitalisn’t, Luigi Zingales and Bethany McLean take a look at the student debt crisis: How did we get here?...
Antitrust and Competition

The Best Political Economy Books of 2020

Asher Schechter
A travelogue of monopoly, the dangers of elite impunity, and the relevance of John Maynard Keynes: here are (in no particular order) some of...
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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Nursing Homes, the World’s Largest Pension Fund, and Our Make-Believe Economy

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.  We've had well over a decade of lower...
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