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After Affirmative Action Ends, Minority- and Women-Owned Contractors Face an Uphill Battle

In new research, Benjamin Rosa finds that when states ban affirmative action, minority- and women-run businesses become smaller than other contractors and are less likely to enter the market, but are no more likely to close their businesses entirely.

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Taking on Corporate Power Requires Deprogramming Corporate Law

Mariana Pargendler

Occupational Licensing Is Everywhere: Regulating Jobs Across Nations

Jon Hartley and Morris M. Kleiner

How the Cold War US Military Modeled Itself on Private Business

A.J. Murphy

The Dynamic Competition Framework Petit et al. Advocate Is Neither Pro-Enforcement nor Anti-Enforcement. It Doesn’t Exist

Lawrence B. Landman

Did Liberals Break Liberal Democracy?

Matthew Lucky

The Ctrip Case Reveals the Limits of Administrative Interviews in China’s Antitrust Enforcement

Chun-Kit (Kitson) Ng

Government Bond Markets See Ecological Decline as a Growth Problem

Jitendra Aswani and William Xiong

Randy Picker on Competition Law, Copyright, and Entertainment

Saul Levmore

Farewell, Randy

Filippo Lancieri

How To Preserve the Online Information Ecosystem in the Presence of Google AI Overviews

Saharsh Agarwal and Ananya Sen