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The Rivals Antitrust Can’t See

The next serious competitor may be waiting for a license, or working on a product nobody has seen yet.  Neither shows up in today’s market-share figures. And much of the current antitrust debate ignores both of those figures completely, even as it ponders how aggressively the government should reshape markets. By contrast, a dynamic approach … The Rivals Antitrust Can’t See

‘The Economics of the Marriage Contract: Theories and Evidence,’ by Niko Matouschek and Imran Rasul

Marriage is a natural subject for law & economics scholars. From Gary Becker’s “A Treatise on the Family” (1981) to Margaret Brinig’s “From Contract to Covenant” (2000), scholars have expanded our understanding of romantic love by examining it through an economic lens.    Some object that bringing law & economics into marriage risks coarsening and cheapening … ‘The Economics of the Marriage Contract: Theories and Evidence,’ by Niko Matouschek and Imran Rasul

The EPA Takes Its Thumb Off the Power Switch

Power-plant rules do more than regulate pollution. They can also regulate competitors out of the market. That is the overlooked significance of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent repeal of most Biden administration greenhouse-gas standards for power plants. The move is an environmental-policy reversal and also a competition-policy reform. The final rule is only a … The EPA Takes Its Thumb Off the Power Switch

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