Book Review: The Code of Capital, by Katharina Pistor
A professor of law at Columbia University looks at the regulatory and legal frameworks that companies use to protect and aggrandize power, wealth, and intellectual property.
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California Added Five States To Its Travel Ban. Does This Make Sense? Or Is It All Just Posturing?
We revisited our previous analysis trying to correlate red state regressivism with corporate investment, but this time looking at California’s newly-amended ban on state-funded travel to a number of deep red states.
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AliExpress: The New Amazon? Or, Close, But No Cigar?
An exhaustive review of AliExpress, the Chinese Amazon and the “foreign office” of global giant AliBaba.
Read MoreHandbuilt Summer Reading List
Okay. You’re locked down, quarantined, or unemployed. Stop scrolling mindlessly through the feed and read! It’s a great opportunity to
Read MoreThe Fine Line Between Entrepreneurship and Price Gouging
A large portion of my academic research is split between the questions of what it would look like to make
Read MoreCorporations Hoard Cash– To No Public Benefit. Why Are We Still Giving Them Money?
There are two notable points about the gargantuan COVID19 rescue bill recently passed by Congress. The first? It’s not enough.
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Toward An Equitable Stimulus Package
The current stimulus package being debated in Congress is likely to be the first of a few. In this article, we consider some precedents for transformative legislation– and some models for other bailouts and stimulus packages- as a blueprint for what we should be focusing on in developing any stimulus policy.
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Epilogue from the Climate Leadership Conference: We Cannot Stop Asking The Tough Questions
The Climate Leadership Conference did a great job of bringing powerful stakeholders together. What it didn’t do such a great job of was asking tough questions of those stakeholders. But there is always opportunity to continue the dialogue.
Read MoreCanada Trip IV – Toronto’s Vertical Suburbs
There is this old chestnut in the right wing media echo chamber that goes something like this: “Capitalism provides variety!
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