Business & Industry

Brexit uncertainty has already taken an economic toll

Stock buybacks are giveaways for greedy investors at the expense of everyone else.

Using tools from computational linguistics, we construct new measures of the impact of Brexit on listed firms in the United States and around the world

Pharmaceutical drugs are often a matter of life or death. It should be a prime objective of government policy to rid the industry of financialization.

To make start-ups work for everyone, we need to put power back in the hands of workers.

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

How antitrust law is ill-equipped to address tech mergers

The Chicago School has long used bankrupt assumptions to strangle antitrust policy

The idea that businesses are run to maximize profits for shareholders is just plain wrong, says William Lazonick

The Chicago School has long used bankrupt assumptions to strangle antitrust policy.

One of America’s leading socialists discusses how a collectively owned economy would be structured, the limits of the welfare state, and what Keynes understood that Marx didn’t

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

This paper presents an historical analysis of the antitrust laws.

US counties with prison labor often have lower wage and employment growth

Author Samuel Stein talks about how capitalism shapes housing and what economists have in common with city planners

We need to ban stock buybacks, while building a movement for basic economic rights

Are regulatory interventions delayed reactions to market failures or can regulators proactively pre-empt corporate misbehavior?

Bill Mitchell presents a coherent analysis of how money is created, how it functions in global exchange rate regimes, and how the mystification of the nature of money has constrained governments, and prevented states from acting in the public interest.

Our welfare depends not only on our actual consumption, but also on alternate choices wedid not make.

Adair Turner discusses his new book, Between Debt and the Devil: Money, Credit, and Fixing Global Finance.

The fall of 2008 was scary. For most people, the aftermath of Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy resembled a major earthquake with strong aftershocks. Official narratives have promoted the image of the crisis as a rare, unpreventable and unforeseen natural disaster, the “100-year flood.” Policymakers emphasize the extraordinary measures they have taken to prevent the system from collapsing and to support recovery since.

“You are now leaving the world as you know it.”

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.

Prof. Oliver Hart will deliver the inaugural talk on Corporate Purpose

New research points to critical role of public funding in drug discoveries and development for the last decade

It’s time for business executives, employees, and taxpayers to come together to help get us out of the pandemic and create conditions for a sustainable and equitable future

William Lazonick emphasizes that keeping workers productively employed is key to economic recovery from Covid-19 as well as a healthy economic future

The scale of firm exposure to the coronavirus is unprecedented by earlier outbreaks, spans all major economies and is pervasive across all industries

As Covid-19 spreads globally in the first quarter of 2020, this paper finds that firms’ primary concerns relate to the collapse of demand, increased uncertainty, and disruption in supply chains