Experts

After several decades of obscurity, antitrust reemerged as a fashionable force in the second and third decades of the 21st century. This trend coincided with growing societal distrust of expertise. Barak Orbach explores assertions that corruption and greed drive support for lax antitrust enforcement policies, and that trustbusting zeal is a marker of intellectual integrity. He argues that intellectual integrity and sound public policy require the moderate, technocratic approaches that society heavily discounts.

In The Spectacle of Expertise: Why Financial Analysts Perform in the Media, Alex Preda explores how financial analysts produce their advice and convince audiences...

Using zip-code level data on Fox News viewership and individual cellphone movement data, a recent study finds that increasing the local viewership of Fox...

It is often argued that the Covid-19 pandemic will reverse the ongoing trend of diminishing trust in science and scientists. A new paper finds...