EconTalk Archives, 2014

Luigi Zingales on Incentives and the Potential Capture of Economists by Special Interests


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Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Zingales's essay, "Preventing Economists' Capture." Zingales argues that just as regulators become swayed by the implicit incentives of dealing with industry executives, so too with economists who study business: supporting business interests can be financially and professionally rewarding. Zingales outlines the different ways that economists benefit from supporting business interests and ways that economists might work to prevent that influence or at least be aware of it.
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EconTalk Archives, 2014By EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Library of Economics and Liberty

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