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The Role of the State

Antitrust and Competition

What Role for Antitrust in the Era of Rising Inequality? The Importance of Power in Supply Chains

Marshall Steinbaum
Concentration of power in supply chains is a prime mechanism by which dominant companies consolidate power and profits. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was...
Antitrust and Competition

“Why Argue With the Government When You Can Buy the Government?”: Q&A with Gary Reback

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, antitrust lawyer Gary Reback elaborated on the difference between antitrust enforcement in the U.S. and Europe, the influence the U.S. Supreme...
Antitrust and Competition

Market Power and Inequality: How Big Should Antitrust’s Role Be in Reducing Inequality?

Asher Schechter
Is the rise of wealth inequality in the United States related to a decline in competition? A new paper answers in the affirmative. Is the...
Antitrust and Competition

Is More Antitrust the Answer to Rising Wealth Inequality?

Asher Schechter
University of Michigan professor Daniel Crane: “The story that somehow antitrust law is dead, that it’s been killed, is wrong. It hasn’t. It’s very...
Antitrust and Competition

Horizontal Shareholding, Antitrust, Growth and Inequality

Guy Rolnik
Harvard Law School professor Einer Elhauge goes back to the days of Thurman Arnold, the head of the antitrust division in the FDR administration,...
Antitrust and Competition

Intergenerational Mobility, Guilds and Income in the Very Long Run

Guy Rolnik
New paper compares tax records for family dynasties in Florence in 1427 and 2011, and finds that the top earners of the present day...
Antitrust and Competition

How to End Too-Big-To-Fail? At Minneapolis Fed Symposium, Participants Reject Big Bank Breakup

Asher Schechter
Former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke: "Size is not the only relevant attribute of banks.” Should big banks be broken up in order to ensure the...
Antitrust and Competition

“The President’s Executive Order is Pro‑Market and Anti‑Abusive Market Power”

Guy Rolnik
Ten days after the White House issued an executive order and a brief that highlights growing concentration and decreasing competition in the US economy,...
Antitrust and Competition

The White House Acknowledges: The U.S. Has a Concentration Problem; President Obama Launches New Pro-Competition Initiative

Asher Schechter
President Barack Obama issues an executive order that calls on federal government agencies to promote competition within uncompetitive markets. President Barack Obama launched a broad new...
Antitrust and Competition

Stigler Center Talk: Bo Rothstein on What Makes Scandinavian Countries Non-Corrupt

ProMarket writers
Oxford’s Bo Rothstein, one of the most influential political scientists in the world today, will discuss the historical experience of Scandinavian countries in eradicating...
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