The impact of money on politics—whether through campaign finance, lobbying, or
independent expenditure—raises key normative questions about democratic representation …

An influential line of thinking in behavioral science, to which the two authors have long
subscribed, is that many of society's most pressing problems can be addressed cheaply and …

Governments use their countries' economic strength from financial and trade relationships to
achieve geopolitical and economic goals. We provide a model of the sources of …

Inequality in political participation and influence has strongly increased in recent decades,
breeding economic inequality. In this review, we focus on three aspects of political …

This article estimates the distribution of personal wealth in South Africa by combining
microdata covering the universe of income tax returns, household surveys, and …

We study the causal effect of firms' lobbying activities on the misallocation of resources
through the distortion of firm size. To address the endogeneity between firms' lobbying …

Brandeis (1914) hypothesized that firms with market power will also attempt to gain political
power. To explore this hypothesis empirically, we combine data on mergers with data on …

Background The commercial determinants of health include a range of practices to promote
business interests, often at the expense of public health. Corporate political practices, such …

The central puzzle of persuasion is why a receiver would listen to a sender who they know is
trying to change their beliefs or behavior. This article summarizes five approaches to solving …

In politics, money is often the name of the game. Politicians enrich themselves while in
office, spend campaign money to finance their re-election, and accept lucrative'golden …