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Some Antitrust Links
My former FTC colleague David Wales joins Jones Day The CATO “New Course for Antitrust” video is now available for your viewing pleasure Microsoft on the release of Windows 7 in Europe without IE The FTC issues its interim report on authorized generics and Chairman Leibowitz claims that reverse payment settlements (based on a Bureau ... Some Antitrust Links
Available Now: Pioneers of Law and Economics
I’m very pleased to announce that my first book editing project (along with my colleague Lloyd Cohen), Pioneers of Law and Economics, is available on-line from Edward Elgar Publishing. The book includes a series of specially commissioned essays designed to honor the founders of the law and economics enterprise. From the book: The editors of ... Available Now: Pioneers of Law and Economics
ICANN and Antitrust in Sydney
I’ve just returned from Sydney where I was at the ICANN meetings giving a presentation (with Steve Salop of Georgetown Law) and participating in a Q&A on the potential economic consequences of vertical integration between registries and registrars. I had a great time on the panel, but the highlight for me was spending talking to ... ICANN and Antitrust in Sydney
A New Course for Antitrust?
Tomorrow at Cato at noon, Carl Shapiro (Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics at the Antitrust Division) will be giving some remarks on the Obama administration’s antitrust agenda. I’ll be giving some brief remarks in response and participating in a discussion including Shapiro and Edwin Rockefeller and moderated by Douglas Ginsburg. Details are available here. ... A New Course for Antitrust?
Commissioner Rosch, Rhetoric, and the Relationship Between Economics and Antitrust
Economic theory is essential to antitrust law. It is economic analysis that constrains antitrust law and harnesses it so that it is used to protect consumers rather than competitors. And the relationship between economics and antitrust is responsible for the successful evolution of antitrust from its economically incoherent origins to its present state. In my ... Commissioner Rosch, Rhetoric, and the Relationship Between Economics and Antitrust
Expanding Insurance Coverage Is Not the Way to Reduce Health Care Costs
As his Council of Economic Advisers made clear in its recent health care report, President Obama sees two primary goals for his health care reform efforts: to slow the growth of health care costs and to expand coverage of health insurance. It’s pretty clear, though, which of these goals is steering the ship. While the ... Expanding Insurance Coverage Is Not the Way to Reduce Health Care Costs
It’s Like Rain on Your Wedding Day
President Obama in yesterday’s speech on fiscal responsibility: The reckless fiscal policies of the past have left us in a very deep hole. And digging our way out of it will take time, patience, and some tough choices.
Will Section 2 Thwart the DOJ's New Antitrust Agenda?
George Priest has an excellent op-ed in the WSJ correctly calling out the Justice Department’s new Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney for attributing the financial crisis to a lack of antitrust enforcement: Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Christine Varney claims that the Justice Department can aid economic recovery by prosecuting businesses that have been successful ... Will Section 2 Thwart the DOJ's New Antitrust Agenda?
Government Ownership of GM: Hands-Off Rhetoric Versus Jawboning Reality
In his recent speech on the GM bankruptcy, President Obama reassured Americans that the government, which now holds 60% of GM’s stock, is not going to try to take over management of the company: What we are not doing, what I have no interest in doing, is running GM. GM will be run by a ... Government Ownership of GM: Hands-Off Rhetoric Versus Jawboning Reality
Dear Mr. Toobin
Jeff Toobin has an interesting profile on John Roberts in the New Yorker (HT: Jonathan Adler who also takes issue with Toobin’s description of Leegin, but goes on to challenge Toobin’s general account of Roberts as a “stealth nominee”). Toobin’s column has very little to do with antitrust. with the exception of one sentence describing ... Dear Mr. Toobin
