Archive
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Working Paper
Working PaperThe Core Value of Public Policy Should be Equality
Apr 2026
Equality runs deeper than preference or policy fashion, rooted in human social instincts and reflected in outcomes across societies. It is time for economics and policy alike to reckon with how profoundly distribution shapes well-being and social stability.
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Article
What Does it Mean to Work Under Algorithmic Eyes?
Apr 21, 2026
AI surveillance and algorithmic management threaten worker autonomy and dignity. It’s time for a rethinking of rights. Part of “AI and the Future of the American Worker,” a series on how artificial intelligence is impacting labor, power, and the meaning of work.
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Working Paper
Working PaperRussell’s Teapot: Dispatches From the Final Stage of the AI Bubble
Apr 2026
Beneath the grand claims and vast capital spending, AI is delivering weak productivity, mounting losses, and growing financial strain. If the boom cannot generate profits, jobs, or durable gains, how much longer can the bubble hold?
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Article
The New Merger Guidelines: Consumer Welfare vs. Protecting Competition Standards
Apr 13, 2026
Should antitrust law focus primarily on measurable performance outcomes such as price and output as indicated by Robert Bork’s Consumer Welfare Standard? Or is it more important to concentrate on whether conduct undermines the competitive process itself as per the newly revitalized Protect Competition Standard?
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Webinars and Events
3rd Meeting of Young Minds in Frontiers of Economics
ConferenceApr 9–11, 2026
Following a successful inaugural Meeting of Young Minds in 2024 and 2025, the Third annual Meeting of Young Minds on April 09 2026 to April 11 2026 is geared to be an exciting and engaging gathering of future leaders in the field of economics.
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Article
The Fed, Congress, and the President: The Constitutional Authority to Make Money
Apr 6, 2026
The struggle over the Federal Reserve is not just a dispute about central bank independence. It is a constitutional conflict over democratic sovereignty itself: in a representative system, the power to make money belongs first to the legislature, not the executive.
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Working Paper
Working PaperThe Consumer Welfare Standard and the Protect Competition Standard: A Comparison and Assessment
Apr 2026
What should courts prioritize in determining antitrust cases: measurable welfare effects, or the protection of competitive rivalry itself? The Consumer Welfare Standard and the Protect Competition Standard offer different answers.
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Article
Transforming Corporate Governance to Improve Access to Medicines in the Global South
Mar 30, 2026
Affordable medicines remain out of reach for millions because pharmaceutical innovation is organized around value extraction, not public health. How do shareholder-driven governance and fragmented global health financing reinforce inequity, and what structural reforms are needed to reverse it?
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesDemocratic Sovereignty and the Prerogative to Make Money: The Case of the Federal Reserve
Mar 2026
As the Supreme Court’s unitary executive theory reaches the Federal Reserve, a deeper constitutional question comes into view: who holds the power to make money?
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesBiopharmaceutical Innovation: Corporate Governance for Equitable Global Health
Mar 2026
The global medicine-access crisis is not simply a failure to balance innovation and affordability. It reflects a deeper system in which shareholder-driven pharmaceutical governance and fragmented donor structures undermine public health and block the shift toward more equitable value creation.
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Article
Easing Capital, Reviving Risk: The Quiet Return of Too Big to Fail
Mar 20, 2026
Less capital, more risk, familiar consequences. The latest move on big-bank rules suggests that too big to fail was never solved, only deferred.
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Article
Why Chase Taylor Swift? Stop the Corporate Looting That Makes Billionaires.
Mar 5, 2026
A case for tackling the corporate machinery driving extreme wealth, and the reforms that could truly curb it.
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Article
Is That New Procedure Proven? MedTech Billing Codes and Evidence-Based Medicine
Mar 2, 2026
Introduced by the AMA in 2001, Category III CPT codes aimed to streamline financial reporting. Instead they became entangled in a politically driven, zero-sum reimbursement game.
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Article
From Fed Failures to Inflation and Stablecoins: America’s Trust Is Cracking
Feb 23, 2026
Authors Bill Bergman and Larry Feltes argue that declining public confidence in government and financial institutions is putting the U.S. economy in peril — and a crisis could come faster than you think.
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Article
One Affordability Battle After Another: What to do about the growing damage from the AI-Fossil Fuel Industrial Complex
Feb 17, 2026
Affordability of electricity and concerns about fossil fuel pollution, water resources, and job loss, have driven a rebellion against data centers that is both grassroots and bipartisan. It’s time for cleaner, faster and cheaper solutions.