Facebook and Google have failed at self-regulation. If we want to avoid an authoritarian future, we need to reduce the influence of internet platforms, writes early Facebook investor Roger McNamee, author of the new book Zucked.
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“In the Wake of the 2008 Crisis, You Can’t Ignore the Influence of Big Business on Economic Policy”
Historian and author Adam Tooze talks to ProMarket about how the financial crisis “remade” American capitalism, why the US response to the crisis was “nakedly oligopolistic,” and how Europe could have solved its own crisis if it had an organized oligopoly of its own.
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Democracy and Economic Growth: New Evidence
Democracy sees higher GDP due to greater civil liberties, economic reform, increased investment and government capacity, and reduced social conflict.
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What’s Capitalism Got Going for It—and Against It? A New Podcast, Capitalisn’t, Tallies the Score
“Capitalism is the engine of prosperity.” “Capitalism sows the seeds of its own demise.” Could both things be true? Economists Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales mull the answers in the new Stigler Center/CBR podcast Capitalisn’t.
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“There Are Good Grounds for Being Very Cynical About Western Elites”
Ahead of his visit to the Stigler Center on October 25, Edward Luce, Washington columnist for the Financial Times and author of The Retreat of Western Liberalism, talks to ProMarket about the reasons for the weakening of Western liberal democracies.
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“In Just About Every Generation, Many People Thought the American Republic was on the Verge of Collapse”
The second installment of our two-part interview with Harvard Business School professor David Moss about his recent book Democracy: A Case Study. “One of the reasons that the most dire warnings have never come true, except in one case, is precisely because our predecessors worried about them so much.”
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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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Is Direct Democracy Better Able to Withstand the Influence of Special Interests?
A new Stigler Center working paper looks into the effects of referendums and public initiatives on public policy and finds that direct democracy better represents the will of the majority, and therefore might also be better able to counteract the power of special interests over policymaking.
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Stigler Center Lecture: Is American Democracy in Trouble?
David Moss, the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School, will examine the health of American democracy from a historical perspective.
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