Rebooting Antitrust’s Normative Economic Theory
Industrial organization economists have caused antitrust to cling to an antiquated and disproven economic theory.
Ineteconomics
Antitrust’s Normative Economic Theory Needs a Reboot
Welfare economists and moral philosophers have shown that the Consumer Welfare Standard is biased in favor of wealthy individuals and corporations—the very powers the antitrust law is supposed to regulate.
A Heart Attack and Stroke Drug That Saves Lives Exists—But American Patients May Be Left Behind by Profit-Driven Healthcare
Dr. Victor Gurewich, a researcher and Harvard Medical School faculty member since 1965, discovered a breakthrough drug treatment for heart attacks and strokes with the potential to save millions, but institutional resistance and a U.S. healthcare system that puts profits over patients are keeping it out of reach.
Chest tightness. Arm pain. Panic. The warning signs hit hard, and for a moment, the thought of a heart attack is no longer just a fear—it’s happening.
Protecting the Consumer: A Conference at the University of Utah with CFPB Director Rohit Chopra
The Utah Project on Antitrust and Consumer Protection hosted a conference on the future of consumer financial services law on October 11, 2024, which was supported by an INET grant.
NY Times and Rolling Stone Cited Fred Ledley’s INET Working Paper on the NIH’s Investment in FDA Approved Drugs
NY Times (12/1/2024) & Rolling Stone
Trump, Tariffs, and Exchange Rates: The Message of Elections in the US and Japan
What Japan, the US, and Europe have in common is growing popular anger over the economy despite high stock prices and low unemployment.
Why ruling parties were defeated in US and Japanese elections
How the Wall Street Journal Blew the Story of the Democrats and Inflation
The firehose of affluent consumption continues to drive inflation, not the stimulus package
It must be the Wall Street Journal’s DNA. Nothing else easily explains why the normally careful Nick Timiraos would focus so much of his account of “How the Democrats Blew It on Inflation” on the hoary argument that the “Biden Stimulus” somehow triggered worldwide inflation back in 2021.
Time to Stop Rolling Dice: Why Bigger is Better in Climate Investments
Earlier investments make large-scale emission reductions easier to do over time because their unit costs drop
Everyone recognizes that the costs of automobiles, washers, jet planes, and hundreds of other products usually drop with mass production. Most products get cheaper when they stream out of workplaces not by the dozens, but by the tens of thousands, or even millions.
Fear and Fascism: How America Reached a Political Breaking Point
Lincoln Mitchell, Political Science Professor at Columbia University, discusses the increasingly powerful fascist movement in the US., outlining the elements of fascism present in the MAGA movement, including its dependence on a strongman leader, the scapegoating of minorities, threats of violence and curtailing of freedoms of speech and assembly.
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