antitrust and competition
Why Behavioral Remedies Won't Work in the Case of AT&T-Time Warner
It is clear from the economics in the government’s complaint against the AT&T-Time Warner merger that the harms to competition articulated by the Department...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Jan. 5–13)
This week in political economy.
Facebook is embarking on a radical overhaul of its news feed, emphasizing status updates from friends and family and...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Dec. 22– Jan. 5)
This week in political economy.
In Project Syndicate, Joseph Stiglitz writes about the GOP’s recently-passed tax package, which he dubs “The US Donor Relief...
In Capitalisn’t Pilot, Zingales and Waldock Fret at Prospect of a Monopolist-in-Chief
In the inaugural episode of the new podcast from the Stigler Center and Chicago Booth Review, economists Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales probe the...
Inequality, Imperialism, and the First World War
Branko Milanovic on his new paper with Thomas Hauner and Suresh Naidu exploring inequality prior to World War I and providing empirical support for...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Dec. 16–22)
This week in political economy.
Eric Schmidt is stepping down as executive chairman of Alphabet, the parent company of Google. Schmidt, who joined Google...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Dec. 9–Dec. 16)
This week in political economy.
House and Senate Republicans released the final version of their tax bill late Friday afternoon. The Washington Post breaks...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Dec. 2–Dec. 9)
The stories that most interested us this week.
David Sirota and Josh Keefe of International Business Times reveal that Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS)...
Will Repeal of Net Neutrality Accelerate the Trend in Media Consolidation? The History of Cable Suggests "Yes"
The history of cable and cable programming strongly suggests that without specific FCC safeguards, we can expect a massive “arms race” by providers to...
Zingales: Too Much Power in the Hands of Big Tech Could Distort American Democracy
Watch comments by Luigi Zingales from the recent AEI Panel "Should Washington Break Up Big Tech?”
The excessive concentration of power in the hands of the...
