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eBook: Milton Friedman 50 Years Later, a Reevaluation

ProMarket writers
Over the past couple of months, ProMarket has hosted a lively debate on whether Milton Friedman was right or wrong when he...
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Corporate Governance

Corporate Responsibility and The Two Minds of Milton Friedman

Ernesto Dal Bó, Richard Lyons
Milton Friedman had two inconsistent minds: That of an economist and an ideologue. The view that maximizing profits without constraint is a...
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Coronavirus

The Covid-19 Vaccine is Nearly Here. The Question is: Will People Take It?

Barry Eichengreen, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Orkun Saka
In addition to the challenges involved in manufacturing and distributing the new Covid vaccine from Pfizer, the reluctance of many Americans to...
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COMMENTARIES

Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Wirecard, Women in the Workplace, and Social Safety Nets

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean. 
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Antitrust and Competition

Three Steps the Biden Administration Should Take to Tackle America’s Monopoly Problem

Daniel A. Hanley
The Biden Administration can revive federal antimonopoly enforcement after 40 years of little action, even when faced with congressional opposition. Here’s how. 
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Antitrust and Competition

What the Department of Justice Can Learn from the European Union’s Antitrust Investigations Into Google

Christian Bergqvist
The Department of Justice has opened antitrust investigations into Google's (alleged) attempt to monopolize online advertising. While the case recycles old grievances...
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Antitrust and Competition

The Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee Has Charted a Course for President-Elect Biden: He Should Follow It

Hal Singer
Real antitrust reform of the kind offered by the Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee is needed to assist enforcers in precisely the types of...
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Commentary

Beijing’s Erosion of Hong Kong’s Freedoms Has Been in the Works for Years

Victoria Tin-bor Hui
The wilting of civil and political freedoms in Hong Kong took a dramatic downturn since July after Beijing imposed its national security...
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News

Here Is What American History Can Teach Us About the Interplay Between Free Speech and Democracy

Geoffrey R. Stone
The United States has a long and unfortunate history of overreacting in moments of perceived crisis. Time and again, we have suppressed...
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Media

Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Joe Biden, Private Equity, and Addictive Social Media

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean. 
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Reversing the “Resource Curse” with Foreign Corruption Regulation

Thomas Rauter
Anti-corruption regulation originating in developed countries is effective in changing corporate behavior and has a positive economic impact on developing countries.
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COMMENTARIES

The Death of Hong Kong’s Rule of Law

Benny Tai
Hong Kong's rule of law has suffered a fatal blow. With the national security law, the authoritarian regime has all that it...
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News

President-Elect Joe Biden and the Real Lessons of DuPont

Guy Rolnik, Roy Shapira
Simply talking corporate America into being more responsible is not enough. It may get corporations to talk the talk, but not to...
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Corporate Governance

How Companies Spin Off Environmental Liabilities to Avoid Legal Obligations

David F. Larcker, Andrew Baker, Brian Tayan
Environmental externalities are vexing for corporate decision makers, but some companies have figured out a way to deal with them: a spinoff....
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Coronavirus

How Pfizer’s Vaccine Announcement Demonstrates the Political Power of Firms

John M. Barrios, Luigi Zingales
By timing the disclosure of the results of its vaccine trial, Pfizer could have influenced the 2020 presidential election. This is worrisome...
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Antitrust and Competition

The Useful Distraction of Section 230

David Carroll
How the red-herring of a politicized Section 230 and “conservative censorship” distracts from a bipartisan national privacy act.
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Antitrust and Competition

Institution Man: How Corporations Came to Dominate the US Economy

Nicholas Lemann
In the first chapter of his book Transaction Man, Nicholas Lemann explores how Adolf Berle, author of The Modern Corporation and Private...
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