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Antitrust and Competition
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Regulatory Capture
Rent seeking
Income Inequality
Big Tech
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Economic History
Research
Commentary
About
Masthead and contacts
Write for ProMarket
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Reading Lists
Antitrust and Competition
Money in Politics
Regulatory Capture
Rent seeking
Income Inequality
Big Tech
Economic History
Economic History
Research
Commentary
About
Masthead and contacts
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Antitrust and labor
Countering Employer Monopsony Power With Fundamental Labor Rights
Labor policies grounded in the fundamental rights of workers can reinforce the aims of a proposed labor antitrust agenda by limiting a...
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How the Rise of Labor Market Power Helps Explain the Fall of US Manufacturing Employment
A new working paper explores the increase in labor market power in the US and what’s driving it. It shows manufacturing workers...
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The Ties that Bind Workers to Firms: No-Poach Agreements, Noncompetes, and Other Ways Firms Create and Exercise Labor Market Power
Collusive no-poach agreements are per se illegal, but noncompete clauses are not. Recent research casts doubt on the rationale for this legal...
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Antitrust Should Be Used as a Targeted Response to Employer Concentration, But It Can’t Do Everything
A large and growing body of research demonstrates that employer concentration affects the wages of many American workers. Antitrust is an important...
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Antitrust and the FTC: Franchise Restraints on Worker Mobility
As currently formulated, antitrust’s rule of reason approach is not the best tool to deal with vertical noncompete agreements that limit worker...
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Antitrust’s Labor Market Problem
A series of academic studies in recent years highlighted the fact that labor markets are often highly concentrated and that employers use...
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Event Notes: “China’s Political Economy” in Review
Andy Shi
The Stigler Center's "China Political Economy" webinar series returns Thursday, February 9. Here's a reminder of what we covered in our first...
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Economic History
To Build an Equitable Economy, We Must Understand Capitalism’s Racist Heritage
Elizabeth Kennedy
American capitalism was built on racial exploitation, from the enslavement of Black people to institutionalized discrimination and its structural impact on our...
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Industrial Policy
How To Ensure Industrial Policy Promotes Public Over Private Gain
Lenore Palladino
Industrial policy was once so out of fashion that it was jokingly called “the policy that shall not be named.” Now it’s...
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Fiscal Policy
More than Economics, Ideology Determines US Voters’ Preferences for Redistribution
Gustavo de Souza
The US stands out among developed economies for its comparatively low level of redistribution as a percentage of GDP. Gustavo de Souza...
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Research
Stakeholder Motivations for “Private Sanctions” Against Russia
Utsav Gandhi
As the war in Ukraine enters its second year, a new study measures stakeholders’ desire to see their firms exit Russia and...
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