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Vertical Media Mergers Are a Serious Threat to Freedom of Speech

Antitrust regulators should stop mergers where a firm owning the means of transmission acquires a provider of content. The people that own the pipes...

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Economic History Series

The Fall of American Manufacturing and the Rise of Health Care

Gabriel Winant

In an excerpt from his new book The Next Shift, University of Chicago historian Gabriel Winant explores how deindustrialization and the decline...

Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust and the FTC: Franchise Restraints on Worker Mobility

Herbert Hovenkamp

As currently formulated, antitrust’s rule of reason approach is not the best tool to deal with vertical noncompete agreements that limit worker...

Antitrust and Competition

How to Make the Market for Real Estate Agents More Competitive

Sophia Gilbukh, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Michael Sinkinson

Delinking buyer and seller commissions will make markets for real estate agent services more competitive, allowing buyers and sellers to negotiate commissions...

Corporate Governance

Dislocation, Dislocation, Dislocation: Covid, the Retail Crisis, and REITs

Mark Pilkington

In an excerpt from his new book Retail Recovery, retail expert and author Mark Pilkington explores the impact of the sector's decline...

Corporate Governance

Addressing Climate Change Must Begin with Verifiable Carbon Accounting

Robert Kaplan, Karthik Ramanna

Robert Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna propose a new approach for verifiable accounting on indirect corporate emissions that would apply to all corporations,...