Laws
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Coding Private Money
Jun 3, 2019
The state has long used law to back private money—with dire consequences, then and now
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Antitrust in American History: Law, Institutions, and Economic Performance
May 2, 2019
The Chicago School’s weakening of antitrust law hurt the economy
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The Antitrust Case Against Facebook You Need to Know About
Apr 22, 2019
“Facebook is undermining our country, our democracy.”
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Can Antitrust Law Rein in Facebook’s Data-Mining Profit Machine?
Apr 17, 2019
Facebook engaged in an elaborate bait and switch on user data: Privacy disappeared when competition did. Laws governing competition could change that.
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Why We Should Decriminalize Sex Work
Mar 27, 2019
Stigmatizing and relegating an activity to the shadows doesn’t improve anyone’s welfare
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What Are the Moral Limits of Markets?
Apr 10, 2014
In recent decades, market values have crowded out non- market norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be?
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Making Innovation Work for China and other Developing Countries
Apr 12, 2017
Along the entire “innovation chain” — from research and development, to production and commercialization — government and private sectors have very different roles to play.
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Lazonick links stock buybacks to America’s jobs challenge
Nov 4, 2016
In an Al Jazeera documentary “In Search of the Great American Job”, Institute scholar William Lazonick offers some arch insights into the relationship between financialization — particularly the “shareholder value” ideology in corporations, which drives the transfer of profits to shareholders through stock buybacks — and job creation and inequality.
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How Government Drives Innovation
May 25, 2018
Bill Janeway explains why “efficiency is the enemy of innovation,” and how venture capitalists and the state advance technological change
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How Economists Turned Corporations into Predators
Oct 5, 2017
The Idea That Businesses Exist Solely to Enrich Shareholders Is Harmful Nonsense
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American Big Tech vs. China Big Tech: Common Challenges or Conflicting Concerns?
Sep 26, 2017 | 08:15—09:45
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It’s Not Just Profit Wrecking American Healthcare
May 15, 2017
A look at America’s strange and dangerous approach to medicine, and how to fix it
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Jayadev: TPP is Dead, but its Legacy Lives On
Feb 10, 2017
Institute scholar Arjun Jayadev argues that while TPP is dead, its damaging legacy on intellectual property rights is likely to shape future bilateral trade agreements
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The Retreat from Hyper-Globalization
Dec 1, 2016
Flows of goods and services, people and capital have overwhelmed the ability of political processes to accommodate them
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Inequality As Policy: Selective Trade Protectionism Favors Higher Earners
Oct 27, 2016
Offshoring manufacturing may have hurt many working people in America, but professionals and intellectual property have been robustly protected