A wee rant to get my blood running a bit hotter| vickirobin.substack.com
Steven C. Salop writes that the Biden administration oversaw a paradigm shift in antitrust, but it was the full adoption of the ideas of the Post-Chicago school, whose intellectual influence has countered Chicago since the 1980s, rather than the empowerment of the Anti-Monopoly or Neo-Brandeisian school of thought. This latter school of thought played an important role by motivating increased enforcement and corralling political support, even if it did not lead to cases that could not have be...| ProMarket
Big business has been going after plaintiff lawyers since the 1980s. Why? 90% of antitrust cases come from private attorneys, restructuring everything from real estate to college sports to big tech.| www.thebignewsletter.com
The right-wing takeover of Florida’s public honors college blurs the line between tragedy and farce, but attacks on universities are about to get worse.| In These Times
Willkommen bei Krasse Links No 31. Instrumentalisiert Eure Vernunft, heute trainieren wir die relational-materielle Freiheit im Widerspruch zum Blick von Nirgendwo.| H I E R
Why has antitrust enforcement declined in the United States since the 1970s? Is it due to the preferences of voters or business influence? In this symposium, Jonathan Baker, Eleanor Fox, and Herbert Hovenkamp will discuss the findings of Eric Posner, Luigi Zingales and Filippo Lancieri’s new paper, “The Political Economy of the Decline of Antitrust Enforcement in the United States.” Lancieri summarizes the findings of the paper here.| ProMarket