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- Adobe
- After Virtue (MacIntyre)
- airline industry
- Alexa
- See also Amazon; Bezos, Jeff
- Alexander, Scott
- Alibaba
- Alphabet
- See also Google
- Altria
- Amazon
- See also Bezos, Jeff
- Amgen
- Amway
- Anderson, Elizabeth
- Android
- Anthem (company)
- Anthony, Carmelo
- anthropomorphizing of corporations
- anti-corporate
- antidepressants
- antitrust laws
- AOL
- Apple
- Arby’s
- Ask.com
- AT&T
- ATMs
- Bad Pharma (Goldacre)
- Baidu
- Bank of America
- Barkley, Charles
- BB&T
- Becker, Sascha O.
- Bernstein, Elizabeth
- best sellers
- See also publishing
- Bezos, Jeff
- See also Amazon
- Big Brother
- See privacy
- Big Data
- Big Pharma
- Big Tech
- disappearance of competition
- impact on intelligence
- innovation and
- loss of privacy and
- overview
- Bing
- Bird, Larry
- Bitcoin
- Black, Leon
- BlackBerry
- Blackstone
- blockchain
- Bloxham, Eleanor
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield
- brand loyalty
- Brexit
- Brin, David
- Brooks, Nathan
- bubbles, financial sector
- Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Graeber)
- Burger King
- cable TV
- cable companies
- cable news
- Capital One
- capitalism
- “creative destruction” and
- Friedman on
- logic of
- market churn and
- media and
- public’s view of
- short-termism
- venture capitalists
- workers and
- young people and
- See also crony capitalism
- Capitalism for the People, A (Zingales)
- Carr, Nicholas
- Carrier
- CEOs
- deaths of
- increases in salary
- overview
- pay for creating value
- short-termism and
- skill set
- China
- American manufacturing and
- Apple and
- facial recognition technology
- financial innovations
- financial institutions
- multinational corporations and
- productivity
- retail and
- tech companies and
- See also Alibaba
- Cialdini, Robert
- Cisco
- Citibank
- Citizens United decision
- See also Supreme Court
- Civil War
- Clark, Andrew E.
- class
- Clinton, Hillary
- Coase, Ronald
- cognition
- cognitive dissonance
- cognitive efficiency
- cognitive strengths
- Collison, Patrick and John
- compensating differential
- conspiracy theories
- control firms
- co-ops
- copyright
- corporations
- attempts to sway public opinion
- downside of personalization
- public dislike of
- Countrywide
- “creative destruction”
- credit cards
- credit card information
- credit card system
- privacy and
- crony capitalism
- business influence on government
- class and
- multinational corporations
- overview
- privilege and state monopoly
- status quo bias
- See also capitalism
- cryptocurrencies
- See also Bitcoin
- Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly
- Curry, Stephen
- CVS
- cybersecurity
- “daily effective experiences”
- See also Kahneman, Daniel; Krueger, Alan
- Daley, William
- Damaske, Sarah
- Damore, James
- daycare
- defense spending
- DejaNews
- Democratic Party
- Desan, Mathieu
- Deutsche Bank
- discrimination
- Dollar General
- Dow Scrubbing Bubbles
- Dream of the Red Chamber
- DuckDuckGo
- Dying for a Paycheck (Pfeffer)
- eBay
- education
- email
- employment/unemployment
- European Union
- ex post
- Exxon
- eyeglass companies
- Facebook
- advertising and
- AI and
- “anti-diversity memo”
- censorship and
- China and
- competition and
- complaints about
- employees
- “filter bubble”
- income inequality and
- information and
- innovation and
- monopoly and
- News Feed
- politics and
- privacy and
- Russian-manipulated content
- venture capital and
- See also Zuckerberg, Mark
- facial recognition technology
- “fake news”
- See also media
- Fama, Eugene
- fast-food
- Fehr, Ernst
- Ferguson, Niall
- financial crisis
- financial sector
- America as tax and banking haven
- American stock performance
- banks “too big”
- global importance of US
- growth
- information technology and
- intermediation
- overview
- venture capital and American innovation
- Financial Times
- fintech
- flow
- Ford Motor Company
- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
- Foroohar, Rana
- fraud, businesses and
- CEOs in laboratory games
- comparative perspective
- cross-cultural game theory
- nonprofits vs. for-profits
- overview
- research on corporate behavior
- spread of information and
- tax gap
- trust and
- free trade
- French, Kenneth
- Friedman, Milton
- Friendster
- Fritzon, Katarina
- fundraising
- Gabaix, Xavier
- Gates, Bill
- GDP
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
- General Electric
- General Motors
- Gilens, Martin
- Glass-Steagall Act
- Gmail
- Goetzmann, William N.
- Goldacre, Ben
- Goldman Sachs
- Google
- access to information and
- advertising and
- Alphabet
- China and
- competition and
- freedom of speech and
- Google Docs
- Google Home
- Google Maps
- impact on society
- income inequality and
- innovation
- media and
- monopoly and
- politics and
- privacy and
- retail and
- searches
- as superstar firm
- venture capital and
- See also Alphabet
- Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier
- Graeber, David
- Great Recession
- Guthrie, Stewart
- Harford, Tim
- Harvard University
- Hauser, Christine
- Hausmann, Ricardo
- Hayek, Friedrich A.
- health care
- electronic medical records
- health insurance
- hospital consolidation
- medical privacy
- monopoly and
- price and
- privacy and
- regulation
- short-termism and
- Trump and
- venture capital and
- See also Medicare; Obamacare
- Henrich, Joseph
- Her (film)
- HSBC
- Hvide, Hans K.
- Immelt, Jeffrey
- immigration
- inclusion
- income
- corporate
- distribution
- guaranteed annual income
- income taxes
- income inequality
- per capita
- wealth and
- work and
- See also taxes
- India
- Influence (Cialdini)
- information technology
- infrastructure
- initial public offerings (IPOs)
- Instagram
- intellectual property (IP) laws
- See also copyright
- Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
- See also taxes
- International Monetary Fund
- Internet of Things
- Iraq War
- James, LeBron
- Johnson, Earvin “Magic”
- Jonze, Spike
- Jordan, Michael
- JPMorgan Chase
- Juicero
- Kahneman, Daniel
- Kashkari, Neel
- Keynes, John Maynard
- Kling, Arnold
- Knack, Stephen
- Koenig, Thomas
- Konczal, Mike
- Kravis, Henry R.
- Krueger, Alan
- Landier, Augustin
- Lee, Esther
- LeFevre, Judith
- LinkedIn
- List, John A.
- lobbying
- Lockheed Martin
- Luce, Edward
- Machiguenga
- MacIntyre, Alasdair
- Maheshwari, Sapna
- Manjoo, Farhad
- Marriott
- McCarthy, Michael A.
- McClellan, Mark B.
- McDonald’s
- McFadden Act
- media
- business and
- CEOs and
- Facebook and
- harassment scandals and
- new vs. old media
- politics and
- short-term thinking
- tech sector and
- Trump and
- See also fake news; social media
- Medicare
- See also health care
- MetLife
- Microsoft
- mobility
- Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible (Goetzmann)
- monopolies
- overview
- real problems
- Monsanto
- Moran, Joe
- Motorola Mobile
- Mozilo, Angelo
- multinational corporations
- Musk, Elon
- Myspace
- National Security Agency (NSA)
- National Venture Capital Association
- nationalism
- “Nature of the Firm, The,” (Coase)
- Neiman Marcus
- New Republic magazine
- New York Times
- NIMBY (not in my backyard) regulations
- Nobel laureates
- Nokia
- nonprofit institutions
- See also profit
- Northern California
- Obama, Barack
- Obamacare
- online
- advertising
- online banking
- online dating
- online education
- online lending
- online media
- privacy
- Oswald, Andrew J.
- outsourcing
- overhead
- overprescription of drugs
- Page, Benjamin
- PayPal
- Pearlstein, Steven
- personality
- personalization
- Pfeffer, Jeffrey
- Pfizer
- Pillsbury Doughboy
- Pinterest
- PNC
- poverty
- prices
- bulk purchasing and
- competition and
- differing
- government and
- higher prices
- inflation and
- information technology and
- low prices
- loyalty programs and
- monopoly and
- online shopping and
- price discrimination
- price fixing
- price-gouging
- price-to-earnings ratios
- quality and
- resale price maintenance (RPM) and
- super-low
- talent and
- trust and
- See also subsidies
- prison-industrial complex
- privacy
- Facebook and
- Google and
- loss of
- private equity investment
- private sector
- Procter & Gamble
- productivity
- profit
- airline industry
- big business and
- CEOs and
- competition and
- ethics and
- financial sector and
- Friedman on
- loyalty programs and
- maximization
- monopoly and
- nonprofits vs.
- profitability
- short-termism and
- venture capitalism and
- See also income; nonprofit institutions
- publishing
- Rand, Ayn
- Reagan, Ronald
- See also Republican Party
- Renaissance
- rent
- Republican Party
- See also Reagan, Ronald; Trump, Donald
- resale price maintenance (RPM)
- risk-taking
- Rite Aid
- Romney, Mitt
- Russia
- Sanders, Bernie
- Sara Lee
- Saudi Arabia
- Scrubbing Bubbles (animated characters)
- sexual harassment
- Shell
- shell companies
- Shephard, Alex
- short-termism
- Shu, Pian
- smartphones
- See also Apple
- Smith, Adam
- Smyth, Joshua M.
- Snapchat
- social media
- 2016 election and
- advertising and
- big business and
- CEOs and
- economy and
- effect on American society
- “filter bubble” and
- generational influence
- privacy and
- trust and
- workers and
- See also Facebook; Instagram; Twitter
- social responsibility
- Social Security
- socialism
- SpaceX
- See also Musk, Elon
- Spool
- Staiger, Douglas O.
- Starbucks
- start-ups
- Stephens-Davidowitz, Seth
- stockbrokers
- Stripe
- Sturzenegger, Federico
- subsidies
- SunTrust
- superachievers
- superficiality
- superfirms
- super-low
- See prices
- supermarkets
- superstar companies
- supply-and-demand model
- supply chains, global
- Supreme Court
- See also Citizens United decision
- SWIFT wire transfer
- Symantec
- Tabarrok, Alex
- Taiwan
- take-down of internet content
- talent
- attracting
- benefits and
- CEOs and
- corporations and
- education and
- finance and
- innovation and
- monopoly and
- venture capitalism and
- tariffs
- TARP bailout program
- taxes
- America as tax and banking haven
- business tax cuts
- Earned Income Tax Credit
- filing
- globalization and
- individual income tax
- lobbying and
- mobility and
- tax avoidance
- tax exemptions
- tax gap
- tax rates
- tax reform
- See also income; Internal Revenue Service
- T-bills
- See also U.S. Treasury
- Theranos
- Threadsy
- tolerance
- Transparent Society, The (Brin)
- Treasury bills
- See T-bills
- Trump, Donald
- big tech and
- crony capitalism
- employment and
- social media and
- supporters and conservative right
- See also Republican Party
- trust
- banks and
- CEOs and
- consumers and
- efficiency and
- government and
- management and
- market societies and
- nonprofits and
- privacy and
- public’s trust in corporations
- “trust game”
- venture capital and
- wealth and
- workers and
- trust-busting
- trusts
- truth-seeking
- Tupperware
- Twitter
- Trump and
- Uber
- “unicorn firms”
- UnitedHealth
- University of Chicago economics department
- See also Friedman, Milton
- up-front, capital
- U.S. Treasury
- See also T-bills
- venture capital
- American innovation and
- Verizon
- Vietnam War
- voice recording
- Volkswagen
- wages
- Walgreens
- Walmart
- Warren, Elizabeth
- Waze
- wealth management
- Wells Fargo
- WhatsApp
- whistleblowers
- Wi-Fi-enabled technology
- WikiLeaks
- Williamson, Oliver
- Wilson, David
- work
- altruism and
- economic oppression
- exploitation
- flow and
- human relationships and
- non-pay-related benefits
- potential burden of
- satisfaction of
- sexual harassment and
- stress and
- studies
- “work as a safe haven” effect
- work hours
- workplace freedom
- WolframAlpha
- World Bank
- World Trade Organization
- World Values Survey
- World War I
- World War II
- Zak, Paul J.
- Zawadzki, Matthew J.
- Zingales, Luigi
- zombie banks
- Zuckerberg, Mark
- See also Facebook