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Mary Sullivan

Mary Sullivan is a visiting scholar at the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center. She was previously an economist with the Federal Trade Commission and assistant chief of the Competition Policy Section in the U.S. Justice Department's Antitrust Division.

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Recent Antitrust and Regulatory Changes Both Unravel the Consensus

Susan Dudley & Mary Sullivan Sep 18, 2023

Presidential administrations over the last 50 years have pursued widely varying policy goals, but they have agreed—at least, in principle—that policies should be efficient and improve social welfare. Now, the Biden administration is taking steps to unravel that bipartisan consensus. We focus on different policy areas (Dudley on regulation and Sullivan on antitrust) and are ... Recent Antitrust and Regulatory Changes Both Unravel the Consensus

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