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NEW: Herbert hovenkamp writes that the court presiding over the Google Ad Tech case gave the government an important win. However, by relying on the per se tying rule instead of rule of reason, the court perpetuated a flawed court precedent that can preclude serious market analysis

NEW: Aaron Edlin (UC Berkeley Law) and Carl Shapiro (Haas School of Business) respond to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson’s keynote speech at #StiglerAntitrust25. They explain why Ferguson’s approach to regulating content moderation policies of major social media platforms threatens the exercise

NEW: Read an excerpt from Michael Posner’s (NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights) recent book, "Conscience Incorporated: Pursue Profits While Protecting Human Rights," reprinted with permission from NYU Press. ms.spr.ly/6010Srgs2

NEW: Tiffany Tsai (NUS) and Chuyue Tian explore how Apple’s clash with China’s WeChat complicates standard assumptions about platform competition and what it might mean for the next wave of antitrust enforcement. ms.spr.ly/6012SpPl8

NEW: After backlash, OpenAI has abandoned plans to restructure to remove control by its nonprofit entity. Andy Shi reviews the history of OpenAI’s internal tensions to pursue profits over its founding purpose, artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity, and what

NEW: Marios Constantine Iacovides discusses his and Konstantinos Stylianou’s empirical investigations into how the goals of competition policy have evolved over time. ms.spr.ly/6015SVSTB

New federal actions against universities—including funding freezes at Harvard and Columbia—are intensifying faculty concerns about political overreach and campus governance. @ProMarket_Org’s latest data captures where faculty stand. Read more: promarket.org/2025/04/18/aca…

How do we make decisions about when to trust science? Read the full transcript of Stanford Medicine professor John Ioannidis’s keynote address and conversation with Stefano Feltri on bias, expertise, and trust in science at the #StiglerAntitrust25 Conference on ProMarket:

NEW: In the wake of Democrats’ losses in 2024, progressives should focus on how antitrust can support a lower cost of living and increase consumer access to essential goods and services, writes Diana Moss (PPI). ms.spr.ly/6015Skn8Z

NEW: Populist leaders like US President Donald Trump are challenging the authority of independent technocrats and judges. In new research, Gabriele Gratton (UNSW Economics) and Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (Oxford Politics and IR) show how such backlash is a predictable development.

NEW on #Capitalisnt: Former FTC Chair Lina Khan joins Zingales and Bethany McLean to reflect on her tenure, her vision of capitalism, and highlights the antitrust issues to pay attention to moving forward. Listen now: capitalisnt.com/episodes/lina-…

NEW: Melissa Newham (D-MTEC ETH Zurich) reviews how investors can alter the incentives and behavior of pharmaceutical companies to reduce competition and consumer welfare through common ownership and “rollup” deals. ms.spr.ly/6011SwPTJ

A recent paper co-authored by several Stigler Center-affiliated scholars, including @BarriosEcon, Joshua Levy, Shashank Singh, Tommaso Valletti, and Zingales discussed how conflicts of interest impact the trustworthiness of economics research. Together with UCL Centre for Law, Economics & Society (CLES),

NEW: "Any prediction involving AI right now is akin to predicting which college basketball team will win March Madness in 15 years based on the skills of elementary school athletes in the surrounding area: we have no clue which teams will have which players, what their collective

NEW: Joseph Price (FCC) writes that how the court in the Meta antitrust case determines the relevant product market may have implications for merger activity among television broadcasters. ms.spr.ly/6016Si12C

NEW: Read an excerpt from Joan C. Williams’s new book, “Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back,” now out at St. Martin's Press. ms.spr.ly/6019SiqM7

NEW: Congress is considering eliminating the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the independent federal agency that “audits the auditors.” Karthik Ramanna (Blavatnik School of Government) and Nemit Shroff (MIT Sloan School of Management) write that elimination of the PCAOB would be a strategic blunder that