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New Right vs. Conservative Antitrust

Thomas A. Lambert
Thomas A. Lambert argues that the conservative antitrust program articulated by the antitrust enforcers of the Second Trump administration hardly resembles the conservative antitrust of previous decades. Its divergences will likely end up harming consumers.
Antitrust and Competition

The New “Conservative” Merger Policy Is Not Antitrust. It’s Anti-Speech

Rebecca Haw Allensworth
Rebecca Haw Allensworth writes that the hallmark of the new conservative antitrust is not economic populism but silencing speech that the Trump administration ideologically opposes.
Commentary

Will Trump’s Drug-Pricing Order Reduce Prices for Americans?

Margherita Colangelo
President Donald Trump has, across two administrations, sought to lower drug prices for Americans, most recently with executive order “Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients.” Margherita Colangelo explains why his order is unlikely to accomplish its goal.
Academic Capture

The Political Economy of Distrust in Science

Matthew Lucky
Skewed incentives and the distribution of resources toward corporations have undermined the integrity of scientific research and contributed to the public’s distrust in expertise....
Antitrust and Competition

The European Commission Can and Must Act on Excessive Pricing

Aline Blankertz
The European Commission has struggled to tackle excessive prices in Europe, despite evidence of how they arise in relation to market power. Aline Blankertz, Todd Davies, Justine Haekens, and Nicholas Shaxson argue that adopting accounting and financial analysis as part of its toolkit can enable the Commission to understand and act when firms are exploiting their market power.
Antitrust and Competition

There Is Only Democratic Antitrust

Reed Showalter
Reed Showalter argues that the suggestion that antitrust can be ringfenced from democracy or the democratic process is erroneous. Antitrust is fundamentally a body...
Antitrust and Competition

How can Economic Regulation Be Made More Democratic?

Yunsieg Kim
Yunsieg P. Kim argues that economic regulation, including antitrust, can only be democratic if it is the choice of well-informed citizens. This article is part...
Antitrust and Competition

Economic Concentration and Its Dual Threats to Democracy

Erik Peinert
Erik Peinert explores the paradoxical relationship between economic concentration and democracy, where economic concentration compromises the democratic process and democratic backsliding also gains momentum by taking advantage of concentrated market actors, whose political power is now impotent, to capture civil society.
Antitrust and Competition

Plumbers, Populists, and the Role of Public Opinion in Antitrust

Sean Sullivan
Sean Sullivan discusses the role public opinion should play in setting antitrust policy and what should be left to the expert economists.
Capture

Germany’s CumEx and CumCum Financial Scandals Reveal How Democratic Institutions Fail

Gerhard Schick
Gerhard Schick discusses the CumEx and CumCum share-trading scandals that cost German taxpayers billions of euros over the course of several decades and the failures in political and social institutions that allowed these scandals to persist for so long.
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