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We're happy to announce the 2025 #StiglerAffiliate Fellows at @ChicagoBooth, a multidisciplinary group of economists, business scholars, lawyers, and political scientists. Learn more about this year's cohort on @ProMarket_org: promarket.org/2025/07/17/ann… (🧵 1/7)
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
Many Americans are questioning the wisdom of unregulated markets and picturing a more active role for the state. Tomorrow, on a new #Capitalisnt, @zingales and @bethanymac12 discuss the state’s role in shaping markets, and whether it is truly possible to shape markets in advance…
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
NEW: Read an excerpt from @chrishughes’ new book, “Marketcrafters: the 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy,” now out at @simonschuster. ms.spr.ly/6015S7Hed
NEW on #Capitalisnt: @chrishughes joins @bethanymac12 and @zingales to discuss his new book “Marketcrafters” and the government’s role in rebalancing economic power and creating fair and efficient markets. They discuss marketcrafting in times of normalcy and crisis, navigating…