Intellectual property laws are almost certainly inflationary, but we've made the normative assessment that encouraging innovation warrants tolerating some monopoly power. Seems rather clear that blanket 'can't do it, it's inflationary' arguments have questionable motives.

Volkswagen workers just made history!

#StandUpUAW

Let me get this straight: A worker at McDonald's could be forced to sign a non-compete clause which means they can't take a job at Burger King for a better paycheck? That's absurd.

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Today, we are seeing a level of corporate concentration not seen since the Gilded Age. Join me Monday at 4:15pm ET for a livestream discussion about taking on monopolies with Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan.

To submit a question in advance, please reply to this tweet.

Some crow for the antediluvian 'women's sports aren't popular' crowd.

I was extremely fortunate to interview Nobel prize winner Angus Deaton for my class. Here’s my review of his new book, Economics in America. With luck, it will inspire a new generation of economists to break from the orthodoxy.

thesling.org/did-economists…

Some news.

Our (Derek Silva (derekcrim.bsky.social) and I) book *The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game* now has a cover and is available for preorder in all formats.

Please do that.

amazon.com/End-College-Fo…

Actual Onion-worthy article from CNN. Not parody.

Friend of the Court Briefs Filed in Internet Archive’s Appeal — Hundreds of librarians joined prominent library organizations & non-profits in filing amicus briefs in Hachette v. Internet Archive. Read why they believe our appeal should succeed: blog.archive.org/2023/12/29/fri…

In response to Minneapolis passing a minimum wage for rideshare drivers, Lyft CEO David Risher says people will 'stop taking Uber and Lyft' and 'it just doesn't work.'

He says Lyft might avoid the city entirely.

A business model that can't pay a living wage shouldn't exist.

At 12.3 million viewers, last night's Iowa-LSU game had more viewers than:

• Any women's CBB game ever
• The 2023 NBA Finals
• The 2023 World Series
• The 2023 Orange Bowl
• The 2023 Big Ten Championship
• The 2023 Cotton Bowl
• The 2023 Pac-12 Championship
• The 2023

If you're a basketball fan, you owe it to yourself to watch Iowa-LSU. Just a fantastic game. Not just Clark v. Reese, who have both been brilliant, it's an all-around well-played game.

Wow, congrats Wolfpack! Both women's and men's teams to the Final Four!

A map of dedicated bicycle paths in the Netherlands 🇳🇱

With a total length of over 35,000 kilometers, the cycle network covers a quarter of the Netherlands' entire road network.

Map source: vividmaps.com

NEW: Ahead of an FTC vote to ban non-competes, Krista Brown & I got a copy of No 1 electronic health record vendor Epic Systems’ contract + screenshots of consulting firms walking away from a former employee, showing its control over the broader industry. open.substack.com/pub/wendellpot…

Cam Spencer, UConn's 2nd leading scorer, has played at 3 NCAA schools in his career, but by all means, do tell us what's 'healthy' and for whom.

Utah’s women’s basketball team, which was participating in the NCAA tournament, left Idaho for Washington state after being terrorized by racists in pickup trucks outside their Couer d’Alene hotel. ksl.com/article/509615…

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