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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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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

What Is Next for Section 230 Reform?

Harold Feld
Section 230 has faced scrutiny from President Donald Trump, the FCC, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the US Congress, and even President-elect...
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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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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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Don’t Blame Trump for the “Turbulent Twenties”. Blame Inequality.

Jana Kasperkevic
Years ago, two academics predicted that an increase in economic inequality would lead to a period of political instability in 2020. Since...
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Jimmy Lai: “Hong Kong Will Eventually Be Like China, Plagued by Corruption”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai discussed his legal troubles, the roots of his...
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How Does Political Uncertainty Affect the Valuation of Long-Term Property Rights? Lessons From Hong Kong

Zhiguo He, Maggie Hu, Zhenping Wang, Vincent Yao
A new paper studies the link between ongoing political uncertainty and long-term property rights in Hong Kong. It finds that properties subject...
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Inequality

Police Stops of Black Drivers Increase Following Trump Rallies, New Study Suggests 

Pauline Grosjean, Federico Masera, Hasin Yousaf
A new study looks into how Trump's 2016 presidential campaign affected police behavior toward Black Americans and finds that the probability that...
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Liberal Democracies Have a Duty to Respond to China’s New National Security Law

Jacques Crémer
According to China’s sweeping new national security law, European citizens who argue in favor of self-determination for Hong Kong in their home...
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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...
Read more
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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Antitrust and Competition

Kicking Around Section 230: Don’t Confuse Politics and Policymaking

Randy Picker
Congressional hearings may make for good TV and viral social media posts, but reforming Section 230 would be more difficult than it...
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Antitrust and Competition

Big Tech Platforms and Schumpeter’s Creative Destruction

Nicolas Petit
Schumpeter’s indirect entry theory fits the average tendencies of competition in digital industries. When the model is added to standard assumptions and...
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