Lucas Kunce
Lucas Kunce is the National Security Director at the American Economic Liberties Project. He spent 13 years as a Marine officer and is a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Antitrust and Competition
How Wall Street Is Devastating Our National Security
Even the Pentagon now realizes that Wall Street’s insatiable appetite for easy profits and love of monopoly has become a clear and...
Antitrust and Competition
Tech Monopolies Are the Reason the US Now Has a TikTok Problem
Tech platforms like Facebook say we should protect, empower, and celebrate their concentrated power for the sake of America’s national security. But...
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Antitrust and Competition
The NCAA Goes After College Athletes’ NIL Money—Here are the Antitrust Implications for Workers and Consumers
Having lost in the Supreme Court on student-athlete academic benefits, the NCAA has signaled a continuing attempt to suppress competition in the...
Corporate Governance
Have Business Roundtable Companies Lived Up to Their Stakeholder Commitments?
In 2019, more than 100 CEOs of US public companies signed a Business Roundtable statement in which they pledged to deliver value...
Inequality
Do Protests Matter At All for Shifting Government Policy Around Economic Redistribution?
New research on the effectiveness of protests on government distributions provides insights into the political incentives of a country’s leadership and the...
Antitrust and Competition
Mergers and Smoking Guns
A recently uncovered memo from George Stigler and Richard Posner reveals how they thought about antitrust and merger policy in advising the...
Corporate Governance
Will “Portfolio Primacy” Throw a Monkey Wrench in Elon Musk’s Plans to Acquire Twitter?
The SEC's definition of fiduciary duty allows institutional shareholders to vote against Elon Musk's Twitter takeover bid thanks to portfolio primacy.
Antitrust and Competition
How Europe Can Enforce the Digital Markets Act Effectively
Alexandre de Streel, Fiona Scott Morton, Jacques Crémer, Amelia Fletcher, Paul Heidhues, Giorgio Monti, Rupprecht Podszun, Monika Schnitzer
As the European Commission gets ready to embark on the complicated task of implementing the recently agreed-upon Digital Market Act, which would...
Corporate Governance
How Enlightened is Enlightened Shareholder Value?
There has been growing support for replacing the traditional corporate purpose with so-called “enlightened shareholder value,” which would guide firms to consider...