Lindsay Owens’s new book details all the ways that corporations seek to maximize profits at your expense.

Lindsay Owens’s new book details all the ways that corporations seek to maximize profits at your expense.

Weber’s Anti-Fascist Economics and Owens’s Gouged help to flesh out a heterodox way of thinking about economic policy.

The media conglomerate’s sweetheart deal is just the latest consequence of Trump’s interference in federal antitrust enforcement.

In sports, it is well understood that the players win the titles.

Darren and Hal discuss anticompetitive strategies by large gun retailers with Hudson Munoz, executive director of Guns Down America, and author of a new report titled “The Price Is Wrong: How the Gun ...

Some industrial organization economists believe it is their job to defend corporations and deflect blame for price hikes.

As the federal government guts consumer protection, state legislatures are taking action to defend consumers’ wallets.

Polymarket and Kalshi correctly predicted the winner of more World Cup matches than The Athletic’s Pick’em poll.

While writers and directors could be harmed indirectly via a reduction of shows, there is a direct pathway to labor harm.

Darren and Hal interview Spencer Webber Waller about his soon-to-be-released book, Power and Greed: Monopolies, Mergers, and Cartels on the American Stage.

To stymie future merger enforcement, neoliberals falsely blamed Spirit’s demise on Biden’s Justice Department.

A three-part program involving government jobs, taxes on excess profits, and mandatory severance for laid-off workers would distinguish the agenda from Trump’s laissez-faire approach.

President Donald Trump‘s administration has barred top federal health experts from joining World Health Organization (WHO) discussions on Ebola. The United States is stepping back from its global heal...

Beau Baumann on the lost art of constitutional politics, Hal Singer on the market definition trap, and Ben Gerstein on the political economy of settler retrenchment. Plus…

Therefore, to be possess’d with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unt...

Antitrust defendants increasingly prevail not by disproving competitive harm, but by dragging plaintiffs into costly battles over market definition. As courts have broadened the rule of reason and…

Seemingly unconstrained by antitrust law, Zillow appears to be using a proxy to exclude another entrant, Homes.com, in yet another market that Zillow dominates.

Seemingly unconstrained by antitrust law, Zillow appears to be using a proxy to exclude another entrant, Homes.com, in yet another market that Zillow dominates.

Every energy crisis, including the current one caused by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, is a windfall for oil refiners.

You don’t have to be an economist to recognize that we are living through an era of diminished competition. You simply must open your eyes and ears. And wallet. Whether paying for airline tickets, gro...

It would be nice for the Times to give some attention to an alternative and more plausible hypothesis behind the housing affordability crisis—namely, that hedge funds and private equity firms have bee...

In December, Dennis Romboy and Art Raymond of Deseret News reported that the University of Utah’s board of trustees approved a first-of-its-kind private equity deal between the school and Otro Capital...

In December, Dennis Romboy and Art Raymond of Deseret News reported that the University of Utah’s board of trustees approved a first-of-its-kind private equity deal between the school and Otro Capital...