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There Is a Direct Line from Milton Friedman to Donald Trump’s Assault on Democracy

Milton Friedman believed that corporations have a social responsibility to play within the rules of the game. But corporations aren’t just players...
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Market Forces Already Address ESG Issues and the Issues Raised by Stakeholder Capitalism

When do market forces push firms toward stakeholder goals, rather than just shareholder goals? When do market forces push firms toward ESG...
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With the Court Approval of the T-Mobile/Sprint Merger, the Dominant Doctrine in Antitrust Has Jumped the Shark

New York Judge Victor Marrero allowed two major mobile companies to merge in an already concentrated telecom industry, ensuring that prices will rise and...
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Antitrust and Competition

The Challenges to (Re)forming a Platform Economy for the People

Ariel Ezrachi, Gene Kimmelman
Measured antitrust enforcement and a more comprehensive regulatory regime can ensure that we continue to benefit from digital markets. In attempting to...
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Spectrum Auctions: There Is Elegance in the Mundane

Anthony Lee Zhang
As a student, Booth School Professor Anthony Lee Zhang was puzzled that Paul Milgrom chose to spend so much of his time...
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Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust as Economic Stimulus

Hal Singer, Marshall Steinbaum
By attacking power imbalances, competition policy can steer income to workers and independent merchants who are more inclined to spend than monopoly...
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Antitrust and Competition

The Monopolists and the Pandemic: What Covid-19 Teaches Us About Concentrated Power

Barry C. Lynn
In the preface of his new book Liberty from All Masters: The New American Autocracy vs. the Will of the People, Barry...
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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Insider Trading, Central Banking, and the Fall of the CDC

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean. 
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