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During the Second World War, economists at Iowa State College published a pamphlet titled “Putting Dairying on a War Footing,” which would...

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“Academic engagement” of a Big Tech firm: that job should exist. But it has not happened, and it probably won’t happen, unless...

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Tainted Philanthropy in Higher Education

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Are the Findings in Academic Economic Journals to be Trusted?

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A New Capitalisn't Episode: Did the Economists of the '60s and '70s Ruin the Economy?

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Data-Driven Ideology: The Problem With Economists' Takeover of Policymaking

According to New York Times journalist Binyamin Appelbaum's recent book The Economists' Hour, economics is not the unbiased science that it pretends to be, but...

Corporations and the Rise of the Chicago Law and Economics Movement

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Thomas Piketty, Chile's Political Chaos, and How to Change Capitalism for the Better: ProMarket’s Top Stories of 2019

As 2019 draws to a close, we look back at ProMarket’s most-read and most-widely shared stories of the past year. Thomas Piketty’s long-anticipated follow-up to...

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It is common lore in data privacy law and other fields that stringent regulatory standards (such as the ones introduced in the...

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Academic Capture

Academic Gatekeepers, Real and Imagined, Are Threatening the Credibility of the Field of Political Finance  

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One objective of political finance is to hold power to account. However, gatekeeping, both direct and indirect, is keeping important work from...

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On Friday, ProMarket published a piece by Renée Adams about the impact of academic gatekeeping in the political finance. Do you have...

Economists' capture

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Is there a “California Effect” in Data Privacy Law? Why the EU is Not the World’s Privacy Cop

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The Social Responsibility of Business Includes Profits

Academic Gatekeepers, Real and Imagined, Are Threatening the Credibility of the Field of Political Finance

A Call for Comments: Have You Been Affected by Academic Gatekeeping?

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