As political and academic progressives expand their frenzied attacks on “wealth” and on the alleged transgressions of “big business,” antitrust regulation is suddenly back in vogue big time. As an example, take the off-the-wall proposal by Sen. Elizabeth Warren ( D-Mass.) that firms such as Amazon and Google be regulated as public “platform”
Elizabeth Warren has made antitrust a major public policy issue in her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. She has argued that several high-tech companies such as Amazon, Google and Facebook are just too big and that they should be broken up by the Justice Department in a major antitrust initiative. Let’s be clear. Using antitrust
In his latest version of the “problems with free trade” argument, PCR appears to grant that free trade is beneficial generally, but is only problematic when all (or nearly all) firms seeking cheap labor actually relocate to the cheap labor market country. But even aside from the remoteness of this condition in reality, it can be argued that, at
A medida que los progresistas políticos y académicos expanden sus frenéticos ataques contra la «riqueza» y sobre las supuestas transgresiones de los «grandes empresas», la regulación antimonopolio vuelve a estar de moda. A modo de ejemplo, tome la propuesta directa de la senadora Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) de que empresas como Amazon y Google sean
Elizabeth Warren ha hecho de la defensa de la competencia un importante tema de política pública en su campaña para la nominación presidencial demócrata. Ella ha argumentado que varias compañías de alta tecnología como Amazon, Google y Facebook son demasiado grandes y que deberían ser disueltas por el Departamento de Justicia en una importante
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