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Eric A. Posner

Eric Posner is Kirkland and Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago. His research interests include financial regulation, antitrust law, and constitutional law. He has written a dozen books and more than a hundred academic articles on law and legal theory. His most recent books are How Antitrust Failed Workers (Oxford University Press, 2021), Radical Markets (Princeton) (with Glen Weyl), which was named a best book for 2018 by The Economist; Last Resort: The Financial Crisis and the Future of Bailouts (Chicago), which was named a best book for 2018 by The Financial Times; and The Twilight of Human Rights Law (Oxford). He is of counsel at MoloLamken LLP, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Law Institute.
Antitrust and Competition

Toward a Market Power Standard for Merger Review

Eric A. Posner
The Stigler Center’s 2023 Antitrust and Competition conference seeks to answer the question: what lays beyond the consumer welfare standard? In advance of the...
Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust’s Labor Market Problem

Eric A. Posner
A series of academic studies in recent years highlighted the fact that labor markets are often highly concentrated and that employers use anticompetitive methods...
Antitrust and Competition

Senator Klobuchar’s Antitrust Bill Doesn’t Go Far Enough

Eric A. Posner
Senator Klobuchar’s bill includes many useful proposals to bolster antitrust enforcement, but the antitrust laws have been so weakened by the courts and by...
Antitrust and Competition

Why the FTC Should Focus on Labor Monopsony

Eric A. Posner
Economic theory tells us that firms are more likely to exploit labor market power than product market power in the United States today. And...
Antitrust and Competition

Data Workers of the World, Unite!

Eric A. Posner
With solutions to the threats of digital monopolies currently looking unlikely to come from the state, law and economics scholars Eric Posner and Glen...
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