antitrust and competition
The Real Dish on the T-Mobile/Sprint Merger: A Disastrous Deal From the Start
The Trump-era DOJ’s decision to allow the T-Mobile/Sprint merger will go down as one of the worst merger-enforcement mistakes in decades. This merger will...
Organized Mimicry: Employers Against the Free Market
"Despite all the rhetorical support for free markets, it turns out that employers would rather corner their market, not free it, especially their market...
“I Wanted to Call People’s Attention to the Extent of Amazon’s Takeover of Washington”
In an interview with ProMarket, author and ProPublica reporter Alec MacGillis discusses the rise of Amazon and regional inequality, the role of politics in...
Why Big Tech Companies Should Engage With Academia, and Why They Don’t
“Academic engagement” of a Big Tech firm: that job should exist. But it has not happened, and it probably won’t happen, unless we get...
Rethinking Competition: From Market Failures to Ecosystem Failures
Despite the overwhelming importance of digital platforms, and the chatter around their recent rise, our understanding of digital ecosystems is still limited. As such,...
Chinese Antitrust 2.0: Why Is China Going After Its Big Tech?
In an interview with ProMarket, Angela Huyue Zhang, author of a new book Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism, discusses the motivations behind the recent antitrust investigations...
Preventing Drug Shortages and Saving Lives: The Role of Quality and Reliability Standards
Prescription drug shortages have become more common in recent years, interrupting usual medical care and increasing patient risk and system costs, but they are...
Facebook Break-up Can Be Feasible, Efficient, and Ultimately Beneficial to Consumers
Is the relief sought by the FTC in its case against Facebook the right way to go? In principle, yes. However, the FTC might...
Green Antitrust: Why Would Restricting Competition Induce Sustainability Efforts?
While “green” antitrust is gaining momentum, its key premise—that restricting competition would incentivize companies to jointly take more sustainability initiatives—finds little or no ground...
Senator Klobuchar’s Antitrust Bill Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Senator Klobuchar’s bill includes many useful proposals to bolster antitrust enforcement, but the antitrust laws have been so weakened by the courts and by...
