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

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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Luigi Zingales on Incentives and the Potential Capture of Economists by Special Interests is an episode from EconTalk Archives, 2014 by Library of Economics and Liberty.

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This episode was published on Oct 20, 2014.

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