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The Equitable Economy

Income Inequality

Angus Deaton on the Under-Discussed Driver of Inequality in America: “It’s Easier for Rent-Seekers to Affect Policy Here Than In Much of Europe”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton talks about the connection of rent-seeking and monopolization to rising inequality. In December, the United...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Oliver Hart and the Poetry of Economic Theory

Luigi Zingales
At this year's annual ASSA meeting, Stigler Center Director Luigi Zingales delivered a lecture honoring Oliver Hart, winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for economics. Read...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

How Boys Become Entrepreneurs at the Dinner Table

Hans K. Hvide
New research from Hans K. Hvide and Paul Oyer has uncovered some interesting facts about men who start businesses: most of them do it in the...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Wondering How Your Financial Advisors Rank for Misconduct? There’s a Web App for That

ProMarket writers
A new site created by ProMarket board member Amit Seru (Stanford) and co-authors Mark Egan (Harvard) and Gregor Matvos (UT Austin) offers free data and...
Health Care

The Secret Driver of US Health Care Costs: Politicians Wanting to Get Reelected

Asher Schechter
A pioneering new study provides a first-of-its-kind look into the outsized effect that lobbying and political maneuverings have on health care spending. Americans spend significantly more...
Income Inequality

Who Are the Top 1 Percent in America? The Answer from New Research Might Surprise You

Samantha Eyler-Driscoll
A new paper challenges Thomas Piketty’s portrayal of an income distribution dominated at the top by passive rentiers who do nothing to earn their money,...
Antitrust and Competition

UN Study Warns: Growing Economic Concentration Leads to “Rentier Capitalism”

Asher Schechter
A new study by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development argues: The “endemic rent-seeking that stems from market concentration, heightened corporate power,...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Richard Thaler and the Science of People

Itzhak Ben-David
Richard Thaler's thought process and perspective on human behavior have influenced how we view economic phenomena and how they affect and are effected by people.     Earlier...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Does Environmental Crime Pay?

Luigi Zingales
A new Stigler Center working paper conducts a cost-benefit analysis of DuPont's emissions of a toxic chemical dubbed C8. The Trump administration has shown clear signs that it...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

To What Extent Do Political Considerations Affect Finance?

ProMarket writers
In June, the Stigler Center brought together top academics for a conference on the impact of politics on finance. Ahead of our second annual...
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