Laws

Prof. Oliver Hart delivers the opening lecture of INET and ITT Bombay’s Samvaad lecture.

Big Tech companies are swallowing up nascent competitors. Why aren’t regulators paying attention?

The state has long used law to back private money—with dire consequences, then and now

The Chicago School’s weakening of antitrust law hurt the economy

This paper presents an historical analysis of the antitrust laws.

“Facebook is undermining our country, our democracy.”

Facebook engaged in an elaborate bait and switch on user data: Privacy disappeared when competition did. Laws governing competition could change that.

Stigmatizing and relegating an activity to the shadows doesn’t improve anyone’s welfare

Organized by the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi in collaboration with the Institute of New Economic Thinking, New York, the aim of the Law Economics Policy Conference series is to bring together legal, economic, and public policy thinkers to consider a variety of real world issues in India in a holistic manner.

Bill Janeway explains why “efficiency is the enemy of innovation,” and how venture capitalists and the state advance technological change

The World Economic Roundtable seeks to help the business, investment, and policy communities understand ongoing changes in the world economy and to promote a discussion of ideas that can advance the goal of a widely shared global prosperity.

The Idea That Businesses Exist Solely to Enrich Shareholders Is Harmful Nonsense

Price gouging in the US pharmaceutical drug industry goes back more than three decades.

Conventional wisdom has it that the primary function of the stock market is to raise cash for companies for the purpose of investing in productive capabilities. The conventional wisdom is wrong.