regulatory capture
George Stigler on Regulation: Lessons for Today
October 20 marks the 35th anniversary of George Stigler’s Nobel prize, the first of Booth School of Business’s grand total of eight Nobels. To...
Who Is to Blame for the 2008 Financial Crisis?
The IGM Center at the University of Chicago has asked its American and European economist panel to rate the main causes of the financial...
“In Just About Every Generation, Many People Thought the American Republic was on the Verge of Collapse”
The second installment of our two-part interview with Harvard Business School professor David Moss about his recent book Democracy: A Case Study. "One of the reasons...
How to Defeat Populist Plutocrats? “Build a Counter-Narrative”
Beppe Severgnini, one of the most influential journalists in Italy, talks to ProMarket about what the U.S. can learn from Italy on how to defeat...
Does Environmental Crime Pay?
A new Stigler Center working paper conducts a cost-benefit analysis of DuPont's emissions of a toxic chemical dubbed C8.
The Trump administration has shown clear signs that it...
Study: Politically-Connected Firms More Likely to Receive Favorable Merger Reviews from Antitrust Regulators
A new study finds that firms connected to members of the House and Senate judiciary committees are more likely to receive favorable merger reviews.
The...
Raghuram Rajan: Populist Nationalism Is “the First Step Toward Crony Capitalism”
The former governor of the Reserve Bank of India discussed the “concentrated and devastating” impact that technology and trade had on blue-collar communities, the anger...
Bribery, Cooperation, and the Evolution of Prosocial Institutions
How the science of cooperation and cultural evolution will give us new tools in combating corruption.
There is nothing natural((Putting aside what it means for...
The Berlusconi Voter, Taken Seriously: a Little Exercise in Historical Comprehension
The Berlusconi phenomenon in Italy both anticipated and exhibits features that epitomize the plight of Western politics.
This is the third installment of ProMarket’s new article...
Eliot Spitzer: The Democratic Party Has Become the Party of the Status Quo
Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer talks about antitrust, digital platforms, economic concentration, and regulatory capture. Part 2 of 2.
In the first part of...
