The excesses of IP law are now a serious obstacle to innovation and economic growth.
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To What Extent Do Political Considerations Affect Finance?
In June, the Stigler Center brought together top academics for a conference on the impact of politics on finance. Ahead of our second annual Political Economy of Finance conference, we are seeking papers related to the interaction between politics and business.
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Turning Corporations into Democracies
The problem with encouraging firms to maximize shareholder welfare is how to prevent managers and special interests from diverting corporate resources in the name of shareholder welfare to causes that provide them, their family, or their friends with private benefits.
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“A Slow, Creeping Consolidation of Power by Big Money Over Think Tanks in the United States”
Following his ouster from New America, antitrust scholar Barry Lynn talks to ProMarket about academic capture and the power of digital platforms like Google.
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Study: Politically-Connected Firms More Likely to Receive Favorable Merger Reviews from Antitrust Regulators
A new study finds that firms connected to members of the House and Senate judiciary committees are more likely to receive favorable merger reviews.
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Can “Productive Tensions” Save American Democracy Again?
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 19 case studies covering 223 years of American political conflicts and crises.
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Raghuram Rajan: Populist Nationalism Is “the First Step Toward Crony Capitalism”
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 toward “totally discredited” elites following the 2008 financial crisis, and the subsequent rise of populist nationalism during a keynote address at the Stigler Center’s conference on the political economy of finance.
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NYC Journalists, Join Us for an Info Session on the Stigler Center’s Journalists in Residence Program
To mark the JIR program’s second year, we will hold an informational session at NYU’s Torch Club in New York on September 19.
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Call for Proposals: 10th Anniversary of the Global Financial Crisis
The Initiative on Global Markets (IGM) and the Stigler Center are organizing a conference on the causes, as well as the key players and mechanisms, of the 2008 financial crisis.
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Bribery, Cooperation, and the Evolution of Prosocial Institutions
How the science of cooperation and cultural evolution will give us new tools in combating corruption.
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Let Data Guide Legislation: Stifling Shareholders in the CHOICE Act?
In improving the current shareholder proposal process, legislators should trade the butcher knife for the scalpel.
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The Berlusconi Voter, Taken Seriously: a Little Exercise in Historical Comprehension
The Berlusconi phenomenon in Italy both anticipated and exhibits features that epitomize the plight of Western politics.
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