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Uber’s “Academic Research” Program: How to Use Famous Economists to Spread Corporate Narratives
Uber's employees co-authored academic papers with brand name scholars that were then used to back the company's PR and lobbying strategy. Published in respected...
Uber and the Sherlock Holmes Principle: How Control of Data Can Lead to Biased Academic Research
How can we ensure that academic journals do not become an unintended instrument in the PR efforts of powerful firms? Luigi Zingales offers some...
Does Uber Kill? The Real Cost of Ride-sharing
A new Stigler Center working paper finds that ride-sharing actually increases the number of new car registrations and fatal accidents.
Two years ago, the Stigler...
