Political economy
Why Are So Many Executives Running for Office These Days?
New research documents a sharp increase in the number of corporate executives in elected federal office between 1980 and 2014. But why do they...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Jan. 29–Feb. 2)
This week in political economy.
As cities across America continue to compete for Amazon’s second headquarters, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari...
ProMarket Expands Editorial Board
Three new board members bring political science firepower to advance Stigler’s mission to understand how states and markets interact.
ProMarket, the blog of the Stigler...
To What Extent Do Political Considerations Affect Finance?
In June, the Stigler Center brought together top academics for a conference on the impact of politics on finance. Ahead of our second annual...
Can “Productive Tensions” Save American Democracy Again?
This is the first installment of a two-part interview we had with David Moss about his recently published book Democracy: A Case Study, which contains...
"The Connection Between Finance and Politics Has Been Under-Researched for Years"
Ahead of the Stigler Center's conference on the political economy of finance, we interviewed Stigler Center Director Luigi Zingales about the motivation behind the first-of-its-kind...
