Business & Industry
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Working Paper
The Anatomy of Cyber Risk
May 2023
Does cyber risk exposure, as opposed to actual incidents, affect firm outcomes?
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Private Equity is Out of Control and Looting America. This Prosecutor Says We Can Fix It.
May 2, 2023
In his new book, “Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan To Pillage America,” Brendan Ballou, a federal prosecutor who served as Special Counsel for Private Equity in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, outlines the dangers of a trillion-dollar industry that hardly anyone understands. He explains how Americans can fight their harmful practices.
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Losing Out in Critical Technologies: Cisco Systems and Financialization
Feb 28, 2023
Cisco’s turn from innovation to financialization and what it means for the competitive position of the US information-and-communication-technology industry
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The War in Ukraine and the Revival of Military Keynesianism
Jan 9, 2023
The advent of military Keynesianism is a warning against complacency about the moral superiority of the West in defending Ukrainian democracy.
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Bankman-Fried, Political Money, and the Crash of FTX
Dec 15, 2022
How Showering Money on Both Parties Paralyzed Regulators
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Why Economists Should Support Populist Antitrust Goals
Dec 13, 2022
Despite the accumulation of serious and unsolvable problems, the Consumer Welfare Standard survives and continues to be taught to students for reasons unrelated to theoretical consistency and empirical confirmation.
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Working Paper
Why Economists Should Support Populist Antitrust Goals
Dec 2022
The Consumer Welfare Standard is severely limited or defective, preventing it from being an appropriate standard for modern antitrust.
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Sick with “Shareholder Value”: US Pharma’s Financialized Business Model During the Pandemic
Dec 6, 2022
Evidence sharply contradicts PhRMA’s contention that its member companies need unregulated drug prices to generate profits that they then reinvest in drug innovation.
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Top Antitrust Expert: We Need a New Approach to Giant Tech Firms Like Google
Nov 28, 2022
Economist Cristina Caffarra, a leader in competition and antitrust, warns that ever-expanding tech giants raise concerns about the extent of their power.
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Vikasarth 2022 Session 3: Industrialisation and the Case of Educated Unemployed 6:00pm-8:00pm IST
WebinarNov 17, 2022
Thirty Years of Indian Economic Reforms: Assessing the Growth and Development of Kerala
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The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World
Oct 20, 2022
Financial Times columnist and author Rana Foroohar talks about her new book Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World
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Vikasarth 2022 Session 2: Emigration, Consumption Boom and the Service Economy
Webinar6:00pm-8:00pm IST
Sep 22, 2022
Thirty Years of Indian Economic Reforms: Assessing the Growth and Development of Kerala
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Beware of Toxic Innovation
Aug 29, 2022
How big tech barons crush innovation—and how to fight back
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The Search for the Soul of Business
Jul 14, 2022
Corporate responsibility needs to evolve if businesses are going to rebuild trust and provide real value for society.
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Where Did You Go, Vice President Joe?
Mar 4, 2022
President Biden’s first SOTU Address was a missed opportunity to say what he knows to be true: Stock buybacks manipulate the market and leave most Americans worse off