At the Blog
On Monday, Beau Baumann posed the question that too few are asking: What would a Russell Vought of the Left look like?
On Wednesday, Hal Singer laid out one reason that antitrust enforcement has become so difficult: as courts have broadened the rule of reason and raised the evidentiary bar for proving market power, defendants increasingly force plaintiffs into costly disputes over how to define the relevant market.
And on Thursday, Ben Gerstein examined how governments and corporations often respond to Indigenous legal victories with dire warnings of economic chaos. These arguments, despite being greatly exaggerated, have significant purchase in facilitating settler retrenchment.
In LPE Land
At On Labor, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez and Paul Sonn discuss two new strategies for how states and cities can help boost funding for labor organizations.
At ProMarket, Samuel Bagg and Shai Agmon argue that competition policy should pay greater attention to friction between competitors, an insight that favors the neo-Brandeisian approach rather over the traditional consumer welfare approach.
At the People’s Policy Project, Adelle Waldman and Matt Bruenig propose the creation of a right for certain part-time workers to request-full time work that employers must accommodate in most circumstances.
In the Nation, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins interviews Sophia Rosenfeld about her recent book on the rise of personal choice in the modern world.
Cool new paper alert: Dianna Reddy’s “Valuing Employment: Transaction Benefit Economics and the Future of Work Law” is out now in the California Law Review.
