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How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Minimum Wage

Matt Lucky reviews The Wage Standard: What’s Wrong in the Labor Market and How to Fix it by Arindrajit Dube, now out at Penguin Press.

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The Warner Bros. Discovery Bidding War Shows Antitrust Enforcement Still Works

Sean D. Reyes

How Competition Has Increased Fraud in Medicare’s DME Program

Renuka Diwan, Paul Eliason, Riley League, Ryan C. McDevitt and James W. Roberts

How Bans on Corporate Political Donations Influence Campaign Platforms

Julia Cagé, Caroline Le Pennec and Elisa Mougin

Smart Contracts Are Shifting Property Rights and Risk

Stefan Bechtold, Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Edoardo D. Martino and Gideon Parchomovsky

The Myth That Lobbying and Campaign Giving Are the Same

Alexander Furnas, Tim LaPira and Clare Brock

Meta’s Winning Market Definition in Its Monopoly Case Relied on a Flawed Empirical Assumption

Clement Mulock

Everyone Wants Competition. Few Ask What Kind

Shai Agmon and Samuel Bagg

Sharing a Leader With Your Rival Firm Increases Odds of Collusion

Alejandro Herrera-Caicedo, Jessica Jeffers and Elena Prager

Do Pharmaceutical Acquisitions Undermine Innovation by Disrupting Human Capital?

Carmine Ornaghi and Lorenzo Cassi

Mass Shootings Do Not Change How US Politicians Vote on Gun Policy

Jack Kappelman and Haotian (Barney) Chen