Manufacturing
Private Labels in Online Marketplaces
On their store shelves, Walmart has its own products under the "Great Value” brand, and Tesco has its own “Everyday Value” products. Is Amazon...
How the Rise of Labor Market Power Helps Explain the Fall of US Manufacturing Employment
A new working paper explores the increase in labor market power in the US and what’s driving it. It shows manufacturing workers were paid...
How Manufacturing’s Lobby Won and Lost its Political Influence
What happens when supporting capitalism hurts capitalists? Do business lobbies ever control the economy to the extent we think they do? The tumultuous history...
The Fall of American Manufacturing and the Rise of Health Care
In an excerpt from his new book The Next Shift, University of Chicago historian Gabriel Winant explores how deindustrialization and the decline of the...
How Offshoring by Multinational Corporations Contributed to the Decline of US Manufacturing
The offshoring activities of multinational firms explain about one-third of the aggregate decline in US manufacturing employment, according to a new study.
Between 1990 and...
Do Mergers Benefit or Harm the Economy? Q&A with Bruce Blonigen
A new paper finds that mergers allow firms to raise prices, but finds no evidence that they improve productivity or efficiency.
Do large mergers benefit or harm consumers? Over...
