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Resurrecting 'A Comprehensive Charter of Economic Liberty': The Latent Power of the Federal Trade Commission

Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan argues that the rise of monopoly and oligopoly in America is result of conscious policy choices initiated in the late 1970s and 1980s that succeeded in focusing antitrust law on the narrow concept of economic efficiency and establishing legal standards friendly to powerful businesses.

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Racial Justice Series

Open Markets Institute policy director Phillip Longman edited a groundbreaking special issue of the Washington Monthly on racial justice. View here, a selection of articles from that issue, which examined the origins of the racial wealth gap, especially its origins in policies that favored monopolies while denying opportunities to African Americans to build assets.

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