By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026The school's researchers publish papers that dare to actually "go and look at horses." A recent horse-looking excursion has yielded some distressing, alarming, and thoroughly documented equine facts. 1442
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026In a new Stigler paper, "Rising Customer Durability, Falling Business Dynamism," researchers from U Chicago and Stanford unpack clever research into how monopolists raise prices, lower quality, anger customers, and *still* dominate a market: www.chicagobooth.edu/-/media/rese...chicagobooth.edu 16120
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026The researchers' hypothesis was that dominant businesses don't maintain their lead by making their customers happy, but by making it harder for those customers to leave. There's good reasons to suspect this. 18016
