interview
“A Slow, Creeping Consolidation of Power by Big Money Over Think Tanks in the United States”
Following his ouster from New America, antitrust scholar Barry Lynn talks to ProMarket about academic capture and the power of digital platforms like Google.
Over the...
Bo Rothstein Explains Why He Resigned From Oxford Over Donor's Link to Donald Trump
In an interview with ProMarket, Swedish political scientist Bo Rothstein explains why he decided to resign from the Blavatnik School of Government after learning...
Eliot Spitzer: The Democratic Party Has Become the Party of the Status Quo
Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer talks about antitrust, digital platforms, economic concentration, and regulatory capture. Part 2 of 2.
In the first part of...
Eliot Spitzer: The U.S. Never Had the Will and the Ability to Hold the Most Powerful to Account
In a special interview with ProMarket, former New York governor Eliot Spitzer talks about financial regulation, regulatory capture, and antitrust. Part 1 of 2.
Clear rules and...
"The Pharmaceutical Industry Has a Large Amount of Control Over the Field of Oncology"
In the second part of our two-part interview with Daniel Goldstein, MD, an oncologist who studies the influence of business interests on healthcare, we talk...
When Medical Experiments Serve the Business Needs of Pharmaceutical Firms Instead of Science
The first part of a two-part interview with Daniel Goldstein, MD, an oncologist who also studies the influence of business interests on healthcare—from treating patients...
Can Investigative Journalism Overcome the Rational Ignorance of Voters?
In the third and final part of our interview with Stanford economist James Hamilton, we discuss the connection between investigative journalism, human interest stories...
"Information Is a Public Good"
In the second part of our interview with Stanford economist James Hamilton, we discuss the costs of investigative journalism, the link between the degree of...
"There's a Set of People Who Do Understand What's Going on in Washington, But That Story Isn't Told Broadly"
How much does investigative journalism cost? What are its benefits? Why is it so hard to monetize? Can markets keep on providing this service?...
“Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in 1956"
Media scholar Jonathan Taplin, author of the new book Move Fast and Break Things, on the rent-seeking and regulatory capture of digital platforms.
In 2014,...
