Erik Peinert

Erik Peinert is an assistant professor of political science at Boston University. He previously worked as the research manager and editor at the American Economic Liberties Project and was a visiting scholar at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. His new book Monopoly Politics: Price Competition, Learning, and the Evolution of Policy Regimes (in press with Oxford University Press), studies why many industrialized countries have alternated in the long run between national policy regimes in favor of enforcing price competition on one hand, and supporting market power and domestic monopolies on the other.