economists

A Famed Economist’s Public Company U-Turn

Michael Jensen, a leading late 20th century economist, pivoted from praising public companies in the 1970s to assailing public company governance in...

We Need More Research on Corporate Corruption

The last decade has seen a continuous drumbeat of revelations of corporate corruption and the current economic crisis is sure to reveal...

“Amazon Is Getting Richer by the Moment —But There’s a Limit to How Many People Jeff Bezos Can Buy”

In an interview with ProMarket, Barry Lynn discusses the current state of American antimonopoly, what the Covid-19 crisis has taught us about...

Government Regulation is the Pro-Market Solution

The Covid-19 pandemic has utterly discredited the false dichotomy of government vs. markets. Extensive government regulation is a prerequisite for the proper...

Capitalisn’t Is Back: Can Economists and Journalists Work Together to Improve Capitalism?

Is capitalism the engine of prosperity, or is it the engine of destruction? On this podcast, we talk about the ways capitalism...

Shareholders Don’t Always Want to Maximize Shareholder Value

Oliver Hart, winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for economics, reflects on how the world has changed since Milton Friedman published his famous essay...

Serving Shareholders Doesn’t Mean Putting Profit Above All Else

The time has come for companies, economists, and society to abandon the argument that the only responsibility of business is to maximize profits. Editor’s note:...

Friedman’s Principle, 50 Years Later

In the mid-1980s, Milton Friedman’s view that the only social responsibility of business is to increase its profits became dominant in business...

Emmanuel Farhi, Economist and Renaissance Man

Matteo Maggiori eulogizes Harvard economist Emmanuel Farhi, who passed away last month at the age of 41.

Why Economic Predictions Are Useless Right Now

The Covid-19 crisis is unprecedented in its global scope and open-ended, uncontrollable progress. By their very nature, the models that economists often...

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Female Academics Are Disproportionately Affected By Covid-19 Disruptions In Childcare

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A new paper finds that academics who are parents to young children, and especially mothers, have lost a significant amount of research...

Antitrust and Competition

Rethinking Competition: From Market Failures to Ecosystem Failures

Michael G Jacobides, Ioannis Lianos

Despite the overwhelming importance of digital platforms, and the chatter around their recent rise, our understanding of digital ecosystems is still limited....

Corporate Governance

A Famed Economist’s Public Company U-Turn

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Michael Jensen, a leading late 20th century economist, pivoted from praising public companies in the 1970s to assailing public company governance in...

Antitrust and Competition

Chinese Antitrust 2.0: Why Is China Going After Its Big Tech?

Jana Kasperkevic

In an interview with ProMarket, Angela Huyue Zhang, author of a new book Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism, discusses the motivations behind the recent...

Antitrust and Competition

Preventing Drug Shortages and Saving Lives: The Role of Quality and Reliability Standards

Rena Conti, Fiona Scott Morton, Adam Kroetsch, Stephen Colvill, Mark Rosenberg

Prescription drug shortages have become more common in recent years, interrupting usual medical care and increasing patient risk and system costs, but...

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LATEST NEWS

Female Academics Are Disproportionately Affected By Covid-19 Disruptions In Childcare

Rethinking Competition: From Market Failures to Ecosystem Failures

A Famed Economist’s Public Company U-Turn

Chinese Antitrust 2.0: Why Is China Going After Its Big Tech?

Preventing Drug Shortages and Saving Lives: The Role of Quality and Reliability Standards

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