Darren Bush
Dr. Darren Bush is a Leonard B. Rosenberg College Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center. He obtained his JD and PhD in Economics from the University of Utah.
Antitrust and Competition
Populism at the FTC Upsets the Antitrust Religion of Consumer Welfare: A Reply to Sokol and Wickelgren
Institutional change, on any fundamental level, will have those that seek to defend the status quo up in arms. But in order...
Antitrust and Competition
What’s Behind Amazon’s Demand that FTC Chair Lina Khan Recuse Herself?
Amazon’s attempt to get Khan to recuse herself from any antitrust investigation into the company is not the first time that a...
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Voters Still Believe Politics is About the Common Good, Not Just Rent-Seeking
Do voters still believe that politics can be a source for common-good policies and not just partisan bickering and rent-seeking? With political...
Antitrust and Competition
How to Design Data Protection Laws That Actually Work
More and more countries are passing data protection laws, yet empirical studies show that these laws rarely deliver on their promises. A...
Antitrust and Competition
Are Monopolists or Cartels the True Source of Anticompetitive US Political Power?
Trade associations are often the biggest obstacles to competitive markets, especially when those organizations use their influence to change public policy in...
Antitrust and Competition
The Uber Files Reveal The Risk of Private Interests Controlling Our Data
Researchers discovered that the introduction of Uber had negative impacts on transportation, findings that required cooperation with public authorities when Uber refused...
Antitrust and Competition
Google’s Anticompetitive Conduct and the Remedies to Prevent It
The Stigler Center, of which ProMarket is a part, recently hosted a panel discussion looking at the antitrust case against Google and...
Academic Capture
“Uber Has Higher Prices and Worse Service Than the Taxi Industry Had Ten Years Ago”
Following the Uber Files leaks, transportation expert Hubert Horan explains why Uber is “hopelessly uneconomic” and how its engagement with policymakers and...
Antitrust and Competition
The FTC Should Quickly Issue New Section 5 Enforcement Guidelines
Unfair methods of competition are prohibited by Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act. The FTC has withdrawn the existing...
