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NEW on #Capitalisnt: @Harvard professor @krogoff joins @zingales and @bethanymac12 to discuss his new book “Our Dollar, Your Problem” (@yalepress) and why the dollar’s shifting dominance matters not only for the US, but for the rest of the world’s payment network. Listen now:…
Curtis Yarvin is one of the leading developers of the “Dark Enlightenment” theory, which rejects liberal democracy as incompatible with freedom and progress, and has been embraced by power players in Washington and Silicon Valley. Revisit @zingales and @bethanymac12's…
People who know Mr. Musk well say privately that he appears to be serious about the third-party idea, but that it is not clear to them that he has moved beyond pie-in-the-sky thinking to mapping out how to pull it off. nytimes.com/2025/07/09/us/… via @NYTimes
NEW: @StiglerCenter Assistant Director Matt Lucky reviews @krogoff’s new book, "Our Dollar, Your Problem" (@yalepress), which reflects on the rise and ongoing fall of the American dollar’s global dominance. ms.spr.ly/6019s1dyP
Americans are often told they benefit from the privilege of the dollar serving as the world’s currency, but what happens when this privilege weakens? Tomorrow, on a new #Capitalisnt, @bethanymac12 and @zingales discuss what it means for the dollar to be “strong” or “weak,” and…
On #Capitalisnt, @EconomicSecProj chair and author @chrishughes joins @bethanymac12 and @zingales to discuss his new book, ‘Marketcrafters’ (@simonschuster), and explains why marketcrafting isn't always a good thing, in markets like #crypto, for example. Listen now:…
On the latest #Capitalisnt, @chrisrhughes, Chair @economicsecproj, PhD student @Wharton, and co-founder of Facebook, joins @bethanymac12 and @zingales to explain how Congress "crafted" the social media market almost three decades ago by enshrining #Section230 into law. Listen…
Political journalist @davidsirota discusses the outsized role of money in American politics on #Capitalisnt ms.spr.ly/6011SNkNx
Former FTC chair Lina Khan discusses her tenure with the agency and her view of competition policy on #Capitalisnt ms.spr.ly/6010SQJ8G
NEW: @StiglerCenter Assistant Director Matt Lucky reflects on the comments from his panel on competition advocacy at #StiglerAntitrust25. He weighs the meaning and possibility for a democratically legitimate antitrust and competition policy. ms.spr.ly/6017Shn61
Political journalist @davidsirota discusses the outsized role of money in American politics on #Capitalisnt ms.spr.ly/6010S2KxE
University of California at San Francisco’s @JoanCWilliams joins #Capitalisnt to talk about how Democrats forgot to be normal. ms.spr.ly/6019SIqKt
A number of competition authorities have expressed concerns about how conflicts of interest impact antitrust academia and policy. Watch: youtu.be/HTopLZdclWo And read the paper co-authored by several Stigler-affiliated scholars, including @Barrios_Econ, @JoshuaYLevy,…
NEW podcast: 👇 How can we address conflicts of interest in research? @ChicagoBooth's @zingales talks about how concerns about bias affect trust in research. ms.spr.ly/6013SAlrT