Linus Mattauch
Linus Mattauch is Senior Research Officer at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School and Lecturer for the Economics of Environmental Change at the Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.
Inequality
Reducing Wealth Inequality Through Wealth Taxes Without Compromising Economic Growth
New research proposes two ways of using wealth taxes to reduce inequality and increase efficiency.
Economic inequality has risen significantly within major economies around the...
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Corporate Governance
Dislocation, Dislocation, Dislocation: Covid, the Retail Crisis, and REITs
In an excerpt from his new book Retail Recovery, retail expert and author Mark Pilkington explores the impact of the sector's decline...
Corporate Governance
Addressing Climate Change Must Begin with Verifiable Carbon Accounting
Robert Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna propose a new approach for verifiable accounting on indirect corporate emissions that would apply to all corporations,...
Antitrust and Competition
The FTC Was Correct to Withdraw the Vertical Merger Guidelines
The 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines, now withdrawn by the FTC, did not represent sound merger policy, argues Steven Salop; rather, they were...
Economic History Series
The Chicago Planning Program and the Interdisciplinary Tradition of the Chicago School
The Chicago Planning Program, an interdisciplinary program that operated at the University of Chicago between 1947 and 1956, is an often-neglected part...
Antitrust and Competition
Why a “Whole-of-Government” Approach is the Solution to Antitrust’s Current Labor Problem
For the majority of America’s regulatory history, the problem of employer monopsony was understood as a competition policy issue that required direct...
Antitrust and Competition
Antitrust Law’s Unwritten Rules of Unfair Competition
Does the Sherman Act actually “protect competition, not competitors”? An examination of the case law reveals a more nuanced picture, in which...
Antitrust and Competition
The New Brandeis Movement and International Antitrust Enforcement
US competition authorities’ top officials, being appointed by a recently-elected president to represent the will of the voters, have the legitimacy to...
