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Congress Prepares to Grill CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google

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Vertical Media Mergers Are a Serious Threat to Freedom of Speech

Antitrust regulators should stop mergers where a firm owning the means of transmission acquires a provider of content. The people that own the pipes...
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Capitalism Does Not Require a Tradeoff Between Planet and Profit

Alessio Terzi
Critics of capitalism claim that the economic system incorrigibly encourages the exploitation of the planet and is thus incompatible with efforts to...
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Academic Capture

Academic Bias Under the Microscope

Andy Shi
That scholarship often reflects conscious and unconscious biases has long been an open secret in academia. On April 22, Professors Christian Leuz,...
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Money in Politics

Corporations Are Not “We the People”

Geoffrey R. Stone
The Citizens United ruling contradicts the Founders, decades of Supreme Court precedent and the will of the American people.
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Antitrust and Competition

Too Many Economists Are Using a Flawed Theory To Defend Dominant Platforms’ Self-Preferencing Practices

David J. Balan
Congress is currently considering two major bills that would regulate “self-preferencing” and related conduct by dominant digital platforms. Criticism of these bills...
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Antitrust and Competition

Unfair Methods of Competition

Cory Doctorow
The FTC’s new policy on unfair methods of competition is an assertion of the original purpose of the agency, allowing it to...
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