In new research, Ricardo Perez-Truglia and Jeffrey Yusof study what drives Americans’ support for antitrust enforcement. They find that information about traditional consumer welfare harms, such as higher prices or less choice, has the largest and most durable impact.

Four experts reflect on some of the trends that defined United States antitrust and competition in 2025.

ProMarket published 257 articles in 2024. Revisit some of our most popular pieces.

Live Nation-Ticketmaster has filed a motion for summary judgment to persuade the judge presiding over the antitrust lawsuit against the company that the government has not turned up enough evidence of wrongdoing or harm to consumers. Diana L. Moss refutes the motion’s main arguments and defends the government’s lawsuit.

Matt Lucky reviews two new books exploring why digital platforms are failing users and how to rediscover the internet’s original promises of an abundance of high-quality and cheap services: Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It and Tim Wu’s The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity.

Diana Moss reviews four recent examples of the Trump administration weaponizing antitrust and regulation to stifle opposing ideological and political viewpoints.

As Americans struggle with an increasing cost of living, a new poll suggests that the public prefers leaders who create prosperity by taking on concentrated corporate power over those who focus on removing government barriers. Jennifer Howard argues that this reflects a growing recognition that corporations block abundance because they profit from artificial scarcity. She describes how businesses consolidate and then engineer limits to extract wealth. She writes that to achieve shared abundance we have to confront corporate power.

Diana Moss writes that a new Massachusetts economic development bill with a provision for limiting the transferability of tickets to live events has succumbed...

ProMarket’s writers review the topics that defined our coverage in 2024. Google. Lots of Google. The future of competition in the European Union. There are...

ProMarket published 257 articles in 2024. Revisit some of our most popular pieces. 10. Erik Hovenkamp: What Does the Google Antitrust Decision Mean and Where Will It...