Laws
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Ayn Rand vs. Elinor Ostrom: The Fight for the Future of Social Media
Mar 9, 2023
The contrasting ideologies at play in this tech sector mirror the conflicting ideologies in economics
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Why Economists Should Support Populist Antitrust Goals
Dec 13, 2022
Despite the accumulation of serious and unsolvable problems, the Consumer Welfare Standard survives and continues to be taught to students for reasons unrelated to theoretical consistency and empirical confirmation.
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Working Paper
Why Economists Should Support Populist Antitrust Goals
Dec 2022
The Consumer Welfare Standard is severely limited or defective, preventing it from being an appropriate standard for modern antitrust.
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Top Antitrust Expert: We Need a New Approach to Giant Tech Firms Like Google
Nov 28, 2022
Economist Cristina Caffarra, a leader in competition and antitrust, warns that ever-expanding tech giants raise concerns about the extent of their power.
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The Economic Case for Neo-Brandeisian Antitrust Goals
Mar 30, 2022
The Consumer Welfare Standard of antitrust is outdated and defective
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Working Paper Series
An Economic Defense of Multiple Antitrust Goals: Reversing Income Inequality and Promoting Political Democracy
Mar 2022
The Consumer Welfare Standard of antitrust is outdated and defective
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The Erroneous Foundations of Law and Economics
Feb 25, 2021
Conservative legal theory is based on a shoddy definition of what constitutes “efficiency”
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Working Paper Series
The Erroneous Foundations of Law and Economics
Feb 2021
Conservative legal theory is based on a shoddy definition of what constitutes “efficiency”
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Working Paper
Never Together: Black and White People in the Postwar Economic Era
Jul 2020
Over and over again, US government policies designed to transfer and create wealth and economic opportunity were restricted to whites by design.
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Labor, Technology and Growth
ConferenceTowards A Gini Negative Solution
Feb 27–28, 2020
What will empower a worker to be able to make greater demands on a profitable economy or employer? The answer may be summed up in one word: leverage.
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The Vikasarth Conversations
DiscussionJan 16, 2020
Prof. Oliver Hart and Justice A. K. Jayasankaran Nambiar in conversation
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Samvaad Lecture: A New Approach to Contracts
DiscussionJan 14, 2020
Prof. Oliver Hart delivers the opening lecture of INET and ITT Bombay’s Samvaad lecture.
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Facebook, Acquisitions, and Potential Competition
Oct 21, 2019
Big Tech companies are swallowing up nascent competitors. Why aren’t regulators paying attention?
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Coding Private Money
Jun 3, 2019
The state has long used law to back private money—with dire consequences, then and now
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Antitrust in American History: Law, Institutions, and Economic Performance
May 2, 2019
The Chicago School’s weakening of antitrust law hurt the economy