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Sandeep Vaheesan

Sandeep Vaheesan is the legal director at the Open Markets Institute. He previously served as a regulations counsel at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he helped develop and draft the first comprehensive federal rule on payday, vehicle title, and high-cost installment loans.
Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust Law’s Unwritten Rules of Unfair Competition

Sandeep Vaheesan
Does the Sherman Act actually “protect competition, not competitors”? An examination of the case law reveals a more nuanced picture, in which the courts...
Antitrust and Competition

Much of Antitrust Law Today Is Based on Unsupported or Demonstrably False Economic Theories. Will Economists Take Heed?

Sandeep Vaheesan
Many of the economic assumptions of contemporary antitrust law are unsupported or false, as the executive branch and judiciary have remade the law in...
Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust’s Monopsony Problem

Sandeep Vaheesan
Four cases from the past decade alleging employer collusion against workers show that at present, antitrust law is ill-equipped to protect workers. A root...
Antitrust and Competition

How Robert Bork Fathered the New Gilded Age

Sandeep Vaheesan
Much like in the first Gilded Age, antitrust enforcers today are hitting labor, not capital. This is thanks to Robert Bork’s radical and influential...
Antitrust and Competition

How the FTC Protects Strong Employers and Targets Weak Workers

Sandeep Vaheesan
Since the 1970s, the US has seen a growing power imbalance between workers and employers. This story was not inevitable, but the product of...

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