Natasha Sarin
Inequality
Inequality Has Increased Far Less Than You Think (If You Consider Social Security Benefits)
In the United States, Social Security accounts for nearly 60 percent of the total wealth of the bottom 90 percent. Once Social Security is...
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Antitrust and Competition
The Challenges to (Re)forming a Platform Economy for the People
Measured antitrust enforcement and a more comprehensive regulatory regime can ensure that we continue to benefit from digital markets. In attempting to...
News
Spectrum Auctions: There Is Elegance in the Mundane
As a student, Booth School Professor Anthony Lee Zhang was puzzled that Paul Milgrom chose to spend so much of his time...
Antitrust and Competition
Antitrust as Economic Stimulus
By attacking power imbalances, competition policy can steer income to workers and independent merchants who are more inclined to spend than monopoly...
Antitrust and Competition
The Monopolists and the Pandemic: What Covid-19 Teaches Us About Concentrated Power
In the preface of his new book Liberty from All Masters: The New American Autocracy vs. the Will of the People, Barry...
Media
Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Insider Trading, Central Banking, and the Fall of the CDC
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.
Antitrust and Competition
“Amazon Is Getting Richer by the Moment —But There’s a Limit to How Many People Jeff Bezos Can Buy”
In an interview with ProMarket, Barry Lynn discusses the current state of American antimonopoly, what the Covid-19 crisis has taught us about...
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Politics, Inconsistent Economic Policies, Destructive Dissatisfaction: The Roots of Hong Kong’s Malaise
In 2019, proposed amendments to the Extradition Bill triggered social unrest that has lasted for more than a year. Moving forward, Hong...
