Ovation Reconsidered: A Response to Commissioner Leary
I was very pleased to thumb through the newest version of Antitrust Magazine and see a TOTM post get some attention. Its always nice to . . .
Ovation Reconsidered: A Response to Commissioner Leary
Whitman on Libertarian Paternalism and the Public-Private Distinction
Here’s a great post from Glen Whitman on libertarian paternalism as applied to mortgages and the housing market. Glen takes Richard Thaler to task for . . .
Too Big To Fail as an Antitrust Concept
There has been a lot of talk recently about the possibility that lax antitrust gave rise to the financial crisis or that antitrust could be . . .
Let’s Have New Section 2 Hearings!
Commissioner Rosch has offered a defense of the withdraw of the Section 2 Report. This is an important step and the Commissioner, who readers know . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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, . . .