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Sep 26, 2023 12 tweets 4 min read
The @ftc and 17 state Attorneys General have sued #Amazon, alleging it has monopolized online marketplace services. We have covered this issue and the company in depth: 🧵promarket.org/tag/amazon/ Back in June 2017, when #Amazon's stock price crossed $1,000 per share, @linakhanFTC (then a research scholar at @YaleLawSch) wrote that it illustrates the shortcomings of our #antitrust regime. promarket.org/2017/06/07/ama…
Jan 6, 2018 6 tweets 2 min read
(Thread) #ASSA2018 panel on the economics of populism = great opportunity to catch up on ProMarket's coverage of the rise of populist plutocrats. First, Raghuram Rajan on the rise of populist pationalism as a “first step toward crony capitalism”
promarket.org/raghuram-rajan… How to defeat populist plutocrats? “Build a counter-narrative” promarket.org/defeat-populis…
Jan 3, 2018 10 tweets 4 min read
Welcome to 2018! Here's a good way to start the new year: catching up on ProMarket’s 10 most-read articles of the previous year. First, our most-read post of 2017: Raghuram Rajan on why populist nationalism is “the first step toward crony capitalism”
promarket.org/raghuram-rajan… 2) Richard Posner: “The real corruption is the ownership of Congress by the rich”
promarket.org/richard-posner…