Jay Weiser

NR PLUS Magazine

The Road to Better Bridges

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Lower Manhattan’s Fulton Center subway hub and its high-tech “oculus,” conceived in the wake of September 11 and opened in 2014, won numerous awards. Applauding critics were less loquacious about ...
Economy & Business

Crony Consumerism

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Everyone loves to hate crony capitalism. But crony consumerism, its evil twin, is just as dangerous, yet is barely known.   In the wake of the Great Society’s efforts to mandate ...
NR PLUS Magazine

Crony Consumerism

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Everyone loves to hate crony capitalism. But crony consumerism, its evil twin, is just as dangerous, yet is barely known.   In the wake of the Great Society’s efforts to mandate ...

The Case Against Crony Consumerism

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The following is a guest post from Jay Weiser, associate professor of law at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. Even as critics on the right and left unite against crony capitalism, crony consumerism continues ...

Sharing the Leverage

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Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Jay Weiser, associate professor of law and real estate at Baruch College. In it, he addresses how policymakers should address consumer debt ...