antitrust and competition
The Profit Paradox: “What’s Good for Firms Is Not Necessarily Good for the Workers”
In an interview with ProMarket, Jan Eeckhout discusses his new book The Profit Paradox and explains how market power brings down wages, even if...
Concentration in the EU: Where It is Increasing and Why
Increasing concentration is not unique to the US—recent studies show that concentration is rising in Europe as well, although to a lesser extent than...
Why Are So Few Law Professors Interested in Antitrust?
Over the past five years, there have been 417 self-reported new US law professor hires. Over those five years, only seven candidates have reported...
Eliminating Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption Won’t End the Georgia Political Boycott
There are good arguments for getting rid of baseball's long-standing exemption from antitrust laws, but the reason cited by Republican Senators angry at MLB’s...
Europe Lacks a Vision for How Apple’s App Store Fees Should Work
The European Commission believes that Apple is violating European competition laws and raising prices for consumers in how it operates its App Store. The...
The Biggest Problem Facing America: Misinformation-At-Scale
Technology companies must put community safety and privacy at the core of their business model, ensure that advertising technology is utilized responsibly, and quickly...
Of Antitrust and Patents: the Quiet Return of the Status Quo at the DOJ’s Antitrust Division
Without Senate-confirmed political leadership, the Department of Justice quietly reverts to an Obama-era policy that favors Big Tech.
The consistent theme running through Makan Delrahim’s...
The Real Dish on the T-Mobile/Sprint Merger: A Disastrous Deal From the Start
The Trump-era DOJ’s decision to allow the T-Mobile/Sprint merger will go down as one of the worst merger-enforcement mistakes in decades. This merger will...
Organized Mimicry: Employers Against the Free Market
"Despite all the rhetorical support for free markets, it turns out that employers would rather corner their market, not free it, especially their market...
“I Wanted to Call People’s Attention to the Extent of Amazon’s Takeover of Washington”
In an interview with ProMarket, author and ProPublica reporter Alec MacGillis discusses the rise of Amazon and regional inequality, the role of politics in...
