More Thoughts on Whole Foods/Wild Oats
Geoff nailed it on the Whole Foods/Wild Oats affair last week. Always a day late and a dollar short, I’ve just written my own short . . .
More Thoughts on Whole Foods/Wild Oats
Is Antitrust/Competition Law or Industrial Organization Taught in Your Country?
My future colleague, Danny Sokol (who’ll be visiting at Missouri Law next year), is one of the authors of the fantastic Antitrust & Competition Policy . . .
FTC Rethinks Bad Pun?
Geoff’s post last week on the FTC’s move to block the Whole Foods/Wild Oats merger poked fun at a stupid pun appearing in the agency’s . . .
Premium natural and organic bulls**t
It appears that the FTC is moving to stop the proposed Whole Foods/Wild Oats merger. Read the full piece here.
Media Consolidation and Antitrust
One of the more interesting parts of Senator Herbert Kohl’s recent Antitrust interview, in which he also discussed airline mergers, concerned antitrust’s treatment of media . . .
More Kookiness in Chicago
I’ve previously tiraded about paternalism in my beloved Chicago. I won’t beat that dead horse, but I just can’t ignore the latest liberty restriction imposed . . .
Rizzo v. Thaler on “Libertarian Paternalism” at Econoblog
See here. My favorite line of the exchange comes from Rizzo in response to Thaler’s inclusion of private choices by firms to adopt automatic savings . . .
Twombly: Good, Bad, or Who Cares?
My apologies for the blogging hiatus. I’ve spent the last ten days grading, traveling, grading, being sick, and hanging out with family in sunny San . . .
The only thing good about the movie, The Corporation
Frankly, I thought the movie, The Corporation, was unabashedly abysmal. It was a childish caricature, exhibiting no understanding by the filmmakers (or most of the . . .