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State occupational-licensing requirements have ballooned over the past decades to cover seemingly nonsensical professions, raising barriers to entry and costs for consumers. Ray Ball, S.P. Kothari, and Andrew Sutherland argue that the current deregulatory movement in the United States should target these regulations next.

A future of business may be businesses owned by charities; they have a history of commercial success and social good. The following is an...

The Federal Trade Commission under Chair Andrew Ferguson has surprised many by continuing its predecessor’s emphasis on protecting labor markets. Randy Kim writes that while this is a welcome development, it will do little to help workers if President Donald Trump does not also continue his predecessor’s whole-of-government approach. Early indications suggest he will not.

Big Tech’s monopoly over online discourse threatens democracy. "Middleware" promises a path forward by adding competitive, customizable layers of recommendation algorithms. But can middleware...

Over the past four decades, the United States has seen rising market power, slowing productivity growth, and deepening wealth inequality. In new research, Giammario...

Mark MacCarthy writes that the case law supports Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson’s charge that collaboration by social media companies on content moderation practices would be anticompetitive collusion. However, the author argues that open and transparent cooperation might actually benefit a troubled internet, and Congress should consider carving out a content-neutral antitrust exemption for platforms in the way it has in the past for broadcast networks.

In new research, Carl T. Bogus uses General Electric as a case study to argue that regulators should prohibit companies that have reached a certain size from growing through mergers and acquisitions due to more common inefficiencies and their outsized harms to stakeholders and society.

New research from Veljko Fotak, Hye Seung Grace Lee, William Megginson, and Jesus Salas shows that the United States tariff exemption process during the...

The new Trump administration’s antitrust leaders are unexpectedly maintaining the Biden administration’s enforcement priorities, including the 2023 Merger Guidelines. Eric Posner explains why this...

Utsav Gandhi explores how billionaire media owners, from Musk to Bezos, are influencing newsrooms, altering editorial policies, and reshaping the future of press freedom...