Herb Hovenkamp is the "Dean of the Antitrust Bar," cited over a thousand times by the judiciary. And he hates the FTC's new rule banning non-compete agreements. But is he intellectually honest?| www.thebignewsletter.com
Calls for breaking up monopolies—especially Amazon, Facebook, and Google—have largely focused on proving that past acquisitions of companies like Whole Foods, Instagram, and YouTube were anticompetitive. But scholars have paid insufficient attention to another major obstacle that also explains why the government in recent decades has not broken up a single large company. After establishing that an anticompetitive merger or other act has occurred, there is great skepticism of breakups as a...| Scholarly Commons at Boston University School of Law
