August 28, 2018

Whole Foods? Seriously? Why Are We Talking About Whole Foods? [Amazon-Whole Foods Symposium]

Chris Sagers

Christopher L. Sagers is a Distinguished Professor of Law at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 28, 2018

Are the antitrust laws any defense to the real dangers of mega-mergers and big technology power aggregation? [Amazon-Whole Foods Symposium]

Jarod Bona & Steven Levitsky

Jarod M. Bona is the CEO of and Attorney at BonaLaw PC as well as a writer at The Antitrust Attorney Blog.  Steven Levitsky is also an Attorney at BonaLaw PC and a writer at  The Antitrust Attorney Blog.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 28, 2018

The Amazon / Whole Foods overreaction: Antitrust populism exposed [Amazon-Whole Foods Symposium]

Dirk Auer

Dirk Auer is a Research Fellow at the Liege Competition and Innovation Institute.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 28, 2018

It’s Not Time To Panic About Amazon’s Purchase of Whole Foods. Yet. [Amazon-Whole Foods Symposium]

Hal Singer

Hal Singer is a Principal at Economists Incorporated and an Adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 28, 2018

The Lasting Legacy of the Amazon-Whole Foods Merger Will Likely Be the Spread of Grocery Tech [Amazon-Whole Foods Symposium]

William Rinehart

Will Rinehart is the Director of Technology and Innovation Policy at the American Action Forum.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 28, 2018

Amazon-Whole Foods: The Speculation Then, the Evidence Today [Amazon-Whole Foods Symposium]

Eric Fruits

Eric Fruits is the Chief Economist at the International Center for Law & Economics.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 28, 2018

Amazon and Whole Foods, Historically Considered [Amazon-Whole Foods Symposium]

Steve Horwitz

Steve Horwitz is the Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise, Department of Economics, at Ball State University.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 27, 2018

Blog Symposium Announcement: Is Amazon’s Appetite Bottomless? The Whole Foods Merger After One Year

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One year ago tomorrow the Amazon/Whole Foods merger closed, following its approval by the FTC. The merger was something of a flashpoint in the growing populist antitrust movement, raising some interesting questions — and a host of objections from a number of scholars, advocates, journalists, antitrust experts, and others who voiced a range of possible problematic outcomes.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 20, 2018

The Rise of Neo-Brandeisian Competition Policy and the Threat to Evidence-Based Regulation: (FTC Hearings, ICLE Comment 1)

Geoffrey A. Manne & Julian Morris & Gus Hurwitz & Kristian Stout

FTC Hearings on Competition & Consumer Protection in the 21st Century. Comments of the International Center for Law & Economics: The Rise of Neo-Brandeisian Competition Policy: Populism and Political Power and the Threat to Economically Grounded, Evidence-Based. Competition Law and Consumer Protection Regulation. Submitted August 20, 2018.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection