Antitrust Is 40 Years Behind Contemporary Economics
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Economics by assertion, not measurement. Or, What if the wordcels won?
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” — Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, I.x.c.27 I have a vivid memory of arriving to a midterm exam an hour late, flustered and embarrassed, after two consecutive buses never showed up. My professor, a charming old Asian man I hadn’t spoken to much outside of class, did something incredibly kind that I do not think I was particularly deserving of. Rather than letting me scramble through the exam in the…
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