ICLE President Geoffrey Manne on FTC Consumer Welfare Panel
ICLE President and Founder Geoffrey Manne will be participating in a panel on November 1, 2018 as part of the FTC’s ongoing “Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century” hearings. Mr. Manne will be part of the second session, entitled “The Consumer Welfare Standard in Antitrust Law“ alongside Barry Lynn (Open Markets Institute), Fiona Scott Morton (Yale University School of Management), and Maurice Stucke (University of Tennessee College of Law).
The event will be held at Georgetown University. Full details can be found here.
ICLE has been an active participant in the ongoing discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of the consumer welfare standard, as well as the advisability (or lack thereof) of abandoning that standard in favor of less empirical and analytical antitrust “standards.”
For examples of ICLE’s previous work related to this topic, see:
Conference, “Have We Exceeded the Limits of Antitrust?”
ICLE Comments, FTC’S Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection In the 21st Century
ICLE Comments, the Regulation of Consumer Data
ICLE Comments, the Current Landscape of Competition and Consumer Protection Law and Policy
Comments to the FCC on T-Mobile-Sprint Merger
ICLE Letter to Senate Judiciary re: T-Mobile-Sprint Merger
Henry G. Manne: Testimony on The Proposed Industrial Reorganization Act Of 1973
Classical Liberalism and the Problem of Technological Change