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“This Isn’t the Kind of Journalism That Serves Democracy Best”: How Place and Privilege Came to Define American News

In an interview with ProMarket, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor Nikki Usher discusses how news in the US came to be...
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Why Are Google and Facebook Now Okay with Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code?

A week of commercial deals and government negotiations has resulted in a series of amendments to the legislation aimed at making Google...
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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...
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Announcing the Participants in the 2020 Stigler Center Journalists in Residence Program

In March, the Stigler Center will welcome eight world-class journalists from the United Kingdom, Brazil, China, Romania, Ukraine, Slovenia, and the United States for an intensive 12-week...
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If Journalists Want to Save Journalism, They Should Stop Asking Google for Money

A new report claims Google has been using its Google News Initiative to stage a “media takeover” and reveals the increasing influence of the...
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The Hidden Risk in Bernie Sanders's Plan to Save Journalism: an Unholy Alliance Between Publishers and Tech Monopolists

Sanders's plan is important and laudable, but his proposal to use a tax on targeted advertising to fund journalism is dangerous.        Donald Trump is not the...
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What Bernie Sanders’s Plan to Save American Journalism Gets Right – and What It Misses

Independent and effective news reporting is at the heart of the democratic process. The dangers to media plurality and local journalism that Sanders identifies...
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Announcing the Participants in the 2019 Stigler Center Journalist in Residence Program

In March, the Stigler Center will welcome eight world-class journalists from France, Australia, India, China, Italy, Uganda, and the United States for an intensive 12-week program...
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When—and Why—Fact-Checking Cannot Stop Alternative Facts

Correct numbers alone cannot stop charismatic politicians using convincing narratives, even if the latter are based on “alternative facts.”     Kellyanne Conway, a counselor to President...
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Announcing the Participants in the 2018 Stigler Center Journalist in Residence Program

From March, the Stigler Center will welcome eight world-class journalists from Canada, Chile, China, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States for an...
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The Aristocracy of Talent: Business Intelligence

Adrian Wooldridge
In the following excerpt from his new book, The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, Adrian Wooldridge traces "how universities...
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Antitrust and Competition

Why Privacy Experts Need a Place at the Antitrust Table

Cristina Caffarra, Johnny Ryan
Antitrust enforcers have tended to stay narrowly “in their lane,” failing to engage with how data is collected and used by digital...
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Assessing George Stigler’s Economic Theory of Regulation

Cary Coglianese
Despite its flaws and limitations, Stigler’s seminal article on the theory of economic regulation remains an important piece of scholarship worthy of...
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Economic History Series

“Old Chicago” and Freiburg: Why Ordoliberalism Was No “German Oddity”

Stefan Kolev, Ekkehard A. Köhler
Both the Chicago and Freiburg schools faced systemic fragility as the crucial property of societal orders. It was this fragility that served...
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Commentary

The Many Faces of Stigler’s Theory of Economic Regulation: Interest Group Politics Still Thrives—But Industry Often Comes Second

Richard Epstein
Stigler treats industry groups as the heavyweights in regulatory contests. But surprisingly often groups of farmers and workers knock them for a...
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