428: New Right Antitrust: Culture War Over Consumer Welfare

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Thom Lambert (Mizzou Law) discusses the Trump II administration’s new right antitrust regulators. Stay calm everyone, they just want the discretion to reward friends and punish enemies. Correction: Contrary to the claim at 34:00, Andrew Ferguson was not on the FTC when it repealed the Section 5 policy statement (2022) or issued the latest merger guidelines (2023). We regret the error. Links: ‘New Right’ Antitrust (https://tinyurl.com/5xureh8p) New Right vs. Conservative Antitrust (https://tinyurl.com/4hnh7jy9) The Limits of Antitrust (https://tinyurl.com/yp2a268f)

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