Labor Antitrust: A Solution in Search of Evidence

Geoffrey A. Manne & Brian Albrecht January 6, 2025

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The growing focus on labor-market power and antitrust enforcement has sparked important debates about both the empirical foundations and practical implementation of these emerging policy priorities. In a recent piece for ProMarket, Eric Posner argues that overwhelming academic evidence supports expanding antitrust scrutiny of labor markets—criticizing, in particular, the skepticism expressed by the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Melissa Holyoak of labor-related provisions in the FTC’s originally proposed Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) rule changes.

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