presidential election
How Pfizer’s Vaccine Announcement Demonstrates the Political Power of Firms
By timing the disclosure of the results of its vaccine trial, Pfizer could have influenced the 2020 presidential election. This is worrisome regardless of...
The “Turbulent Twenties” Are Just Beginning
Years ago, two academics predicted that an increase in economic inequality would lead to a period of political instability in 2020. Since then, the...
The Pandemic Has Revealed America’s Impatience. But America Will Need Patience in the 2020 Election
The proliferation of mail-in voting is likely to make knowing who won the election take much longer than Americans are used to. Voters in...
American Oligarch: Michael Bloomberg Reveals His One Remaining Path to the Democratic Nomination
Michael Bloomberg's only real path to the nomination was always a contested convention, where he could be able to further leverage his wealth and...
Who Won the South Carolina Democratic Debate? The ProMarket Panel's Analysis
Is Bernie Sanders inevitable, and is Michael Bloomberg doomed? Which candidate would be best suited to avoid a recession in the US? A ProMarket...
"You Can Put the Monopoly Tiger in a Cage but You Cannot Transform a Tiger Into a Vegan"
In an extensive interview with the Swiss news website TheMarket.ch, Luigi Zingales discusses ways to deal with Big Tech and the impact of the...
Why Michael Bloomberg’s Run for President Creates an Unprecedented Media Problem
The first effect of Michael Bloomberg’s campaign and of his conflicts of interest is to reduce the 2020 candidates’ accountability: one of the world's...
Who Won the Democratic Debate? The ProMarket Panel Responds
A panel of ProMarket writers and editors met to watch the third Democratic Debate. Find out what they thought about it.
Populist Plutocrats as a Political Phenomenon
How can a rich man successfully pose as a representative of the poor and the disenfranchised and become the leader of a populist movement?...
Theory of the Firm Interview Series: John Van Reenen
The second installment in ProMarket’s new interview series: Should the economic theory of the firm be modified? If so, how? In this installment, we...
