antitrust and competition
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Dec. 9–Dec. 16)
This week in political economy.
House and Senate Republicans released the final version of their tax bill late Friday afternoon. The Washington Post breaks...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Dec. 2–Dec. 9)
The stories that most interested us this week.
David Sirota and Josh Keefe of International Business Times reveal that Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS)...
Will Repeal of Net Neutrality Accelerate the Trend in Media Consolidation? The History of Cable Suggests "Yes"
The history of cable and cable programming strongly suggests that without specific FCC safeguards, we can expect a massive “arms race” by providers to...
Zingales: Too Much Power in the Hands of Big Tech Could Distort American Democracy
Watch comments by Luigi Zingales from the recent AEI Panel "Should Washington Break Up Big Tech?”
The excessive concentration of power in the hands of the...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Nov. 18–26)
The stories that most interested us this week.
The New York Times reports on the ongoing turmoil at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and...
The DOJ Has a Strong Case Against the AT&T-Time Warner Merger
If the merging parties are true to their many tough public statements, and they stick the litigation out long-term, the odds are not bad...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Nov. 10–17)
The stories that most interested us this week.
The bribery trial of US Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) ended in a mistrial after the jury was not able...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Nov. 3–10)
The stories that most interested us this week.
Following reports that the Justice Department might force AT&T to sell Time Warner’s CNN as a...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Oct. 26–Nov. 2)
The stories that most interested us this week.
Following a tough week for the world’s dominant digital platforms, Barry Lynn and Matt Stoller of the...
Stigler on Monopolies: “Competition is a Tough Weed, Not a Delicate Flower”
Many of Stigler’s views on monopoly and antitrust were consistent through the decades. Even after his concerns of monopoly began to recede, he continued...
