Recorded Webinar—Special Interest Over Public Interest: Why a Return to Antitrust’s Rent-Seeking Past Will Fail Consumers
Panelists:
Our Panelists:
Joshua D. Wright, University Professor of Law, George Mason University Scalia School of Law
Corbin K. Barthold, Internet Policy Counsel and Director of Appellate Litigation, TechFreedom
Description:
Antitrust “reformers” insist that big corporations’ abuse of power and the accompanying societal ills compel abandonment of the consumer-welfare standard in favor of a vague structuralist test. But as our panelists will explain, history and economic theory dictate that deep-pocketed, well-connected special interests can and will exploit the increased discretion a pliable standard affords regulators. Such an outcome, they will contend, will serve neither consumers nor other intended beneficiaries of a Neo-Brandeisian approach to antitrust.
Documents:
Competition Policy International April 2018 Dorsey/Rybnicek/Wright article