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Ronald Reagan

A Posner-Stigler Smoking Gun?

A memo from George Stigler and Richard Posner to the Reagan administration was recently unearthed. To understand the meaning behind the memo,...
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A Richard Posner and George Stigler Memo: “Throttling Back on Antitrust: A Practical Proposal for Deregulation”

A 1980s memo from Richard Posner and George J. Stigler to President-elect Ronald Reagan sheds light on their policy advocation for the...
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The Rise, Survival, and Potential Fall of the Reagan-Era Antitrust Consensus

With major antitrust reform in the air, Brian Cheffins explores how and why a now highly controversial antitrust consensus that emerged under...
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Like Microsoft, but With More Glitter: The Cheerleading Monopoly Problem

Cheerleading is a huge part of American culture. It’s also an expensive sport, especially after a company called Varsity Brands bought the National Cheerleader...
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Data-Driven Ideology: The Problem With Economists' Takeover of Policymaking

According to New York Times journalist Binyamin Appelbaum's recent book The Economists' Hour, economics is not the unbiased science that it pretends to be, but...
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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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Big Tech

The Wicked Problem Embodied by The Twitter Files

Tom Ginsburg
In response to a recent ProMarket post about the Twitter Files, professor Tom Ginsburg points out that the toughest question lies in...
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News

Study Shows Universal Bank Trades Are Informed by Private Commercial Borrower Information

Will Macheel
New research by Rainer Haselmann, Christian Leuz, and Sebastian Schreiber finds evidence suggesting that German banks with commercial lending relationships improve their...
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News

Industrial Policy Is a Seductive Mirage

Michael C. Munger
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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Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust Deregulation is Undermining Innovation

Giovanni Morzenti
A 2000 amendment to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act made it easier for firms to merge without notifying US antitrust authorities. In new research,...
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