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Glen Weyl: “The Very Structure of Capitalism Is Inherently Monopolistic” — Asher Schechter interviews Glen Weyl

In an interview with ProMarket, Glen Weyl, co-author of the wildly ambitious (and wildly controversial) new book Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society, talks about antitrust, data as labor, and why he thinks the free market system is not actually free. “The entire business community has been speaking with one voice in the common interest of capital as a class,” he says.... A different take on "socialism" and how to implement it using markets in addition to...

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Michel Hudson — Tollbooth Trump

Shamini Peries interviews Michael Hudson. Video and transcript.Michel HudsonTollbooth Trump Michael Hudson | President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and Guest Professor at Peking University

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Alex Tabarrok — The Return of Henry George?

The notion that property owners should pay extra for their proximity to the subway is called “value capture” and has long been debated in urban planning circles. Now Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, has made value capture a prominent part of his plan to salvage the subway system by proposing to give the Metropolitan Transportation Authority the power to designate “transit improvement subdistricts” and impose taxes. Marginal RevolutionThe Return of Henry George?Alex Tabarrok | Bartley J....

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