regulatory capture
Restoring Antimonopoly Through Bright-Line Rules
The “consumer welfare” approach to antimonopoly is the main contributor to the extreme and dangerous concentrations of power that Americans face today. In place...
When We Outsource Privacy Compliance, We May Undermine Privacy Protection
Privacy law is currently being shaped and implemented by a new industry of third-party tech vendors. These companies code their own interpretations of privacy...
Self-Regulation and the Video Game Industry: A New Stigler Center Case Study
A new Stigler Center case study explores questions surrounding the ESRB, the self-regulatory body responsible for assigning age and content ratings to video games.
The debate...
Schumpeter and Brexit: Same Old Story, Different Ending
Joseph Schumpeter wouldn’t have been surprised by Brexit, but would blame British elites for putting it to a referendum and then walking away from the...
The Anticompetitive Effects of Current Capital Regulation
Some features of the capital regulation that was designed to increase the safety of the financial system may have unintended consequences on the competitive...
“Emmanuel Macron Is Not a Liberal, He Just Pretends to Be”
The French president found himself under fire following an attempted police raid on the offices of the investigative news site Mediapart. While many around...
Facebook Is a Threat to Democracy — and the US Has a Responsibility to Rein It In
Facebook and Google have failed at self-regulation. If we want to avoid an authoritarian future, we need to reduce the influence of internet platforms,...
Study: Medicaid Expansion in Michigan Led to Less Financial Distress
A new study finds that obtaining health insurance coverage leads to lower unpaid debt, fewer bankruptcies, fewer evictions, fewer late payments, and higher credit...
Public Trust in Government Falls as Government Shutdown Continues
Amid the longest government shutdown in US history, and with no light at the end of the tunnel, the latest Financial Trust Index (FTI)...
Paging Don Qixote: The Last Hope for American Merger Law
Of the eight or nine hundred antitrust claims each year, few are private merger claims, and almost all of them fail. That is why...
