Interviews
Is the Digital Economy Much Less Competitive Than We Think It Is?
Maurice E. Stucke from the University of Tennessee Knoxville and Ariel Ezrachi of Oxford University explain how big data and artificial intelligence can be...
“Why Argue With the Government When You Can Buy the Government?”: Q&A with Gary Reback
In an interview with ProMarket, antitrust lawyer Gary Reback elaborated on the difference between antitrust enforcement in the U.S. and Europe, the influence the U.S. Supreme...
ProMarket Interview: “The Lobbyists and the Regulators Were Really, Socially and Culturally, the Same People”
University of Connecticut’s law professor James Kwak explains the mechanisms that drive cultural capture, and why he think it is less prevalent today.
In his...
Alan Rusbridger: “The Level of Scrutiny That the Press Would Apply to its Own Failures is Minimal”
ProMarket interview: Alan Rusbridger, former editor-in-chief of The Guardian, on media capture.
In 2003, Rebekah Wade (now Brooks), the former editor of the British tabloid...
ProMarket Interview: Robert J. Shiller on Competition, Deception and Rent-Seeking
Yale economist and Nobel Prize Laureate Robert J. Shiller explains why competition in itself does not always weed out deception and rent-seeking.
“Our free-market system...
“It’s Difficult to Produce Good Policy in Thin Political Markets”
Harvard Business School’s Karthik Ramanna, author of Political Standards, outlines the potential harms of thin political markets and offers ways to mitigate capture. “It’s difficult...
“What We Have is Capture of the Regulators’ Minds, A Much More Sophisticated Form of Capture Than Putting Money in Their Pockets”
Barry C. Lynn, author and director of New America’s Open Markets program, explains how every major industry and marketplace in America came to be controlled...
“The United States Has Lost the Will and Ability to Prosecute Top Corporate Executives”
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jesse Eisinger speaks about executive impunity and the key to justice in America.
In January, Sen. Elizabeth Warren released a scathing indictment...
The True Price of Media Capture: “We’ll Be Living in a State of Perpetual Shock and Amazement”
Journalist and media critic Dean Starkman, author of The Watchdog That Didn't Bark, speaks about capture in business media and explains how journalists missed the...
“There Is Regulatory Capture, But It Is By No Means Complete”
Kenneth J. Arrow, one of the most influential economists of the 20th century, reflects on the benefits of a single payer health care system,...
