antitrust and competition
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Oct. 26–Nov. 2)
The stories that most interested us this week.
Following a tough week for the world’s dominant digital platforms, Barry Lynn and Matt Stoller of the...
Stigler on Monopolies: “Competition is a Tough Weed, Not a Delicate Flower”
Many of Stigler’s views on monopoly and antitrust were consistent through the decades. Even after his concerns of monopoly began to recede, he continued...
UN Study Warns: Growing Economic Concentration Leads to “Rentier Capitalism”
A new study by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development argues: The “endemic rent-seeking that stems from market concentration, heightened corporate power,...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Oct. 19–26)
The first edition of our weekly news briefing.
ProMarket Issues in the Media
"CVS Health is in Talks to Buy Aetna" (Wall Street Journal)
“Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to...
Mergers Are Bad for Innovation
Mergers tend to reduce overall innovation, making consumers “always worse off after a merger," says Tommaso Valletti, the European Commission’s Chief Competition Economist.
As competition authorities...
Antitrust in the Labor Market: Protectionist, or Pro-Competitive?
Redirecting antitrust enforcement to confront monopsony power would be a substantial departure from the way it has been conducted in recent decades, but just...
“A Slow, Creeping Consolidation of Power by Big Money Over Think Tanks in the United States”
Following his ouster from New America, antitrust scholar Barry Lynn talks to ProMarket about academic capture and the power of digital platforms like Google.
Over the...
Study: Politically-Connected Firms More Likely to Receive Favorable Merger Reviews from Antitrust Regulators
A new study finds that firms connected to members of the House and Senate judiciary committees are more likely to receive favorable merger reviews.
The...
Raghuram Rajan: Populist Nationalism Is “the First Step Toward Crony Capitalism”
The former governor of the Reserve Bank of India discussed the “concentrated and devastating” impact that technology and trade had on blue-collar communities, the anger...
Eliot Spitzer: The Democratic Party Has Become the Party of the Status Quo
Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer talks about antitrust, digital platforms, economic concentration, and regulatory capture. Part 2 of 2.
In the first part of...
