A century ago, reformers gave the Federal Trade Commission extraordinary powers to take on abusive corporations. It’s time to wake the agency up.
In this post, we will explain why licensing’s mix of consumer protection and labor market stabilization is a legitimate policy option for a wide range of occupations.
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In this post, we cover the basics of licensing, and then reframe current attacks on it.
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Since the 1970s, the US has seen a growing power imbalance between workers and employers. This story was not inevitable, but the product of conscious legal and political choices.
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The Republican line on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh stresses his dispassion. A typical example comes from Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), who hails Kavanaugh as a judge who does “not rewrite the rules of the game” and “who call[s] balls and strikes.”
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Sandeep explains why an antitrust enforcer anchored in consumer welfare is an antitrust enforcer anchored in anti-labor.
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Sandeep explains how antitrust laws are being used an anti-worker tool.
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In the Yale Law Journal Forum, Sandeep Vaheesan writes about challenging the empirically deficient economism that has had an extraordinary influence on antitrust law over the past forty years.
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In the Law and Political Economy Blog, Sandeep Vaheesan writes how competition is deficient as a general social organizing principle and should be promoted selectively, not categorically.
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