Regulation
How the “Watergate Babies” Released the Beast of Monopoly Upon America
Why did Washington respond to the 2008 financial crisis by pushing even more wealth and power into the hands of the same people that...
“The Digital Robber Barons Kill Innovation”: the Stigler Center's Report Enters the Senate
In a letter submitted to the record by the US Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust currently investigating Big Tech, Luigi Zingales expounds on the Stigler...
How Robert Bork Fathered the New Gilded Age
Much like in the first Gilded Age, antitrust enforcers today are hitting labor, not capital. This is thanks to Robert Bork’s radical and influential...
The Employment Effects of a Gender-Specific Minimum Wage
The first minimum-wage laws in the history of the United States were predominantly gender-specific in that they were imposing a lower bound only on...
The Limits of Private Action: What the Past 40 Years Taught Us About the Perils of Unregulated Markets
The two big ideas that animated American public policy since the end of World War II, employer-sponsored social benefits and neoliberalism, are failures. We...
How Amazon's Pricing Policies Squeeze Sellers and Result in Higher Prices for Consumers
Amazon's price matching policies, which were meant to ensure its dominant position, diminished the ability of brands to control how their products are distributed...
Why American Voters Are Still Not Ready to Support Carbon Taxes
Economists and policy elites love carbon taxes, but voters dislike them. A new study suggests that ideology has a lot to do with it....
How the Supreme Court Is Rebranding Corruption
In thirteen years of hostile decisions, the Roberts Supreme Court has done all it can to legalize corruption. With the Bridgegate case, it gets...
“Following the Money” to Uncover Terrorist Organizations
Critics have argued in recent years that financial counterterrorism is costly and ineffective. But a new Stigler Center working paper shows that it can...
How Antimonopoly Was Revitalized, Part 2: Barack Obama and the End of the End of History
In this second installment of his three-part series on antitrust’s recent resurrection, Matt Stoller discusses the legacy of Obama’s presidency. The real policy for...
