Walter Frick

The US Supreme Court's hard right turn Weekend Brief

More than 2,000 people have moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma because of Tulsa Remote, a program that pays remote workers $10,000 to move. And two new studies suggest the program is working: the participants are experiencing a higher standard of living due to the city’s low housing costs, and are engaged in the community. But there are challenges for other cities looking to copy the model. For one thing, the cities with the most remote work are the same big “superstar” cities that dominated the pre-pandemic economy.

One year later, what has the world learned about conflict from the war in Ukraine? In an interview with ProMarket’s Walter Frick, Chris Blattman says the answer is perhaps, more than anything, how important reputation and signaling can be. The West has gone to great lengths to signal its resolve to future adversaries, and that […]

Brooke Fox and Walter Frick analyze research and ideas presented at the Stigler Center Antitrust and Competition Conference that question the value of mergers.

The economy is ending 2023 in better shape than expected. Most importantly, inflation is falling in much of the world and some central bankers have signaled likely interest rate cuts in 2024. But risks remain as higher interest rates work their way through

The conservative majority is transforming the country.

Since the 2008 financial crisis, a growing chorus of advocates and scholars have argued that corporations have a responsibility toward a number of different stakeholders, including their employees.

Industrial policy is making a comeback around the world. There's no better sign of this than the new attention paid to subsidies by bastions of the Washington consensus like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which has historically been very skeptical of them.