Bo Rothstein, one of the most influential political scientists in the world today, explains how countries can become less corrupt, and why the Nordic model is successful. The first of a two-part interview.
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Bo Rothstein, one of the most influential political scientists in the world today, explains how countries can become less corrupt, and why the Nordic model is successful. The first of a two-part interview.
Read moreMany people like to think of media as another market where competition drives innovation, quality, and integrity. But this is not always the case.
Read moreProMarket interview: Alan Rusbridger, former editor-in-chief of The Guardian, on media capture.
Read moreHarvard 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 to produce good policy in thin political markets if you accept the normative implications of the current economic theory of the firm.”
Read moreA novel conference at Harvard Business School brought together top scholars in order to answer the question: Is Milton Friedman’s dictum that firms that maximize shareholder value maximize social value as well still relevant in a post-Citizens United world?
Read moreBarry 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 by a single, monolithic player.
Read morePulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jesse Eisinger speaks about executive impunity and the key to justice in America.
Read moreJournalist 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 financial crisis, and why they are almost certain to miss the next one as well.
Read moreKenneth J. Arrow, one of the most influential economists of the 20th century, reflects on the benefits of a single payer health care system, the role of government and regulatory capture.
Read moreSitting across the table from me was Brad (not his real name), a top sales representative at a large pharmaceutical company. I asked him about the receipts for over $2000 in gift certificates to a Michelin star restaurant, expensed to the company, that were lying on the table.
Read moreProfessor George Stigler, the Nobel Laureate (1982) who in some ways invented the idea of “regulatory capture,” and Professor Mancur Olson, who developed some of the most important ideas of “public choice,” are not around anymore. If they were alive today, they would probably be surprised to learn that the first politician in recent U.S. history to take their advice seriously and challenge them is a self-described socialist.
Read moreArmed with research on drug patents and a spate of internal emails from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, hedge fund manager Kyle Bass attacks pharma regulation.
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