antitrust and competition
Digital Markets Act: Policy Choices and Conditions for Success
Last month, the European Commission introduced an ambitious new set of rules for digital platforms, the Digital Markets Act. Here is what it says,...
Why Isn’t the FTC Tackling Facebook’s Data-opoly?
Nothing in the FTC’s and states’ complaints’ prayer for relief seeks to give users greater control over their data, such as not being tracked...
The Best Political Economy Books of 2020
A travelogue of monopoly, the dangers of elite impunity, and the relevance of John Maynard Keynes: here are (in no particular order) some of...
The FTC’s Antitrust Case Against Facebook: Injunction, Divestiture, or Breakup?
While the FTC’s lawsuit against
Facebook is unlikely to lead to a “breakup,” it could force Facebook to undo
some mergers. Breaking things up is easy,...
Little Law and No New Regulator: What’s Missing in the House Antitrust Report
The House Antitrust report spans 449 pages, 30 of which contain recommendations for antitrust reform. However, one of the most telling aspects of the...
Why Both Liberals and Conservatives Are Completely Wrong About Section 230
Abolishing Section 230 would not address disinformation and propaganda on social media nor charges of anti-conservative censorship. But its repeal would probably hurt startups...
Facebook Could Be Heading Towards a Breakup
Assuming Facebook’s acquisitions can be shown to have eliminated emerging rivals, reversing those acquisitions via divestiture—“the most important of antitrust remedies”—is the logical place...
Angus Deaton: “There’s Something Clearly Wrong With Our Corporate System, in Which Pharmaceutical Companies Are Allowed to Kill People for Money”
In an interview with ProMarket, Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton outlined what he believes the incoming Biden administration should do: introduce price controls and...
“A Loaded Weapon”: Francis Fukuyama on the Political Power of Digital Platforms
In an interview with ProMarket, Francis Fukuyama discusses the political threat posed by digital platforms and why he believes a “middleware” solution would be...
What Should the Biden Administration’s Antitrust Agenda Look Like? A Roundtable
How will US antitrust policy look under President Joe Biden? We caught up with four antitrust experts—Jonathan Baker, Zephyr Teachout, William Kovacic, and Teddy...
