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How George Stigler and the Chicago School Opened the Marketplace of Ideas to Business

Edward Nik-Khah

Henry Simons, the “Crown Prince” of the Chicago School and a professor in the economics department and the law school prior to World War...

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America Became Rich Because of Liberalism

Peter J. Boettke

American Antitrust Has Yet To Figure Out Conglomerates

Paul Friederiszick

Communities Should Capture the Benefits of AI Data Centers

Sarah Kreps

Replacing Credit and Debit Cards With Account-to-Account Payments Would Save Americans Billions

Eli Orbach

Two Questions Determine Whether a Pricing Algorithm Becomes Evidence of Price Fixing

Roger D. Blair and Javier D. Donna

Congress Has More Work to Do Before PBM Reform Reaches Consumers

Jeremy Pilaar and Albert (Haotian) Wang

The Foreignness of Africa’s Startup Ecosystem

Emanuele Colonnelli, Marcio Cruz, Mariana Pereira-Lopez, Tommaso Porzio and Chun Zhao

States Can Facilitate an AI Slowdown Without the Federal Government

Noah Hoffman and Fiona Scott Morton

Antitrust Enforcers Should Focus on Market Power Not on Vague Welfare Concepts

Alberto Heimler

Economics Is Opening Up at the Edges, but Not at the Top

Markus Eberhardt, Giovanni Facchini and Valeria Rueda