To Manage Platforms, We Must Abandon the Idea of "Perfect" Competition There are two quite different conceptions of "competition," and the role it plays in performance of commercial transactions. In the past 15 years, the

@masonlec.bsky.social #EmergingLawPoliticalEconomy Author+Paper: ✍ Mike Munger @duke-university.bsky.social

📑 Antitrust relies too much on “perfect competition.” In today’s platform economy, real competition is dynamic—and sometimes requires big players, not more choices.

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A Theory for All and None: A Neo-schumpeterian Model of Antitrust Law and Political Economy The neoliberal moment has passed. With respect to antitrust policy, critics on both the left and increasingly the right are targeting large corporations and ant

@masonlec.bsky.social #EmergingLawPoliticalEconomy Author+Paper: ✍️ Joseph V. Coniglio @itif.org

📑 suggests embracing a Schumpeterian focus-entrepreneurship, creative destruction, a realist view of competition-as the reimagined antitrust frameworks vs #LawAndPoliticalEconomy

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LPE and the Disappearance of the Individual The emerging LPE movement has significant resources at its disposal, as well as a firm commitment to its ideals and goals. According to its founders, great cris

@masonlec.bsky.social #EmergingLawPoliticalEconomy Author+Paper:

✍️ Jeremy Kidd / @drakeuniversity.bsky.social

📑 argues the scholarship of #LawAndPoliticalEconomy reveals the “individual in society” plays no conceptual role in LPE principles and policies. #LegalAcademia

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“Law and Political Economy”: A Solution in Search of a Problem Creating and implementing solutions to social problems requires a realistic assessment of the status quo. The authors of the Law and Political Economy Project m

@masonlec.bsky.social #EmergingLawPoliticalEconomy Author+Paper:

✍️ David Bernstein/Scalia Law

📑 argues #LPE inflates #lawprofs influence, misreads modern #lawecon, ignores the ⬅️tilt of #publiclaw, and boosts #neoliberal weight. If US needs a ⬅️ward shift, #LPE makes 🚫 case

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The Problems with Piketty's Data <p><span>The Law and Political Economy (LPE) movement frames itself as a legal retort to a “crisis” of rising inequality in the United States, and calls for cor

@masonlec.bsky.social #EmergingLawPoliticalEconomy Author+Paper:

✍️ Phillip Magness / Independent Institute

📑 argues the #ThomasPiketty data on #risinginequality is exaggerated due to methodological errors, making #LawandPoliticalEconomy taxation push misguided

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Law and Political Economy: Missing Markets, Missing Law, and Missing Political Economy This Article critiques the "Law and Political Economy" (LPE) framework. It aims to challenge the Law and Economics (L&E) approach. We argue that L

@masonlec.bsky.social #EmergingLawPoliticalEconomy Authors ✍:

Andrew Morris @tamu.bsky.social #BushSchool
Roger Meiners #UTxArlington

📑 Paper shows how the development & evolution of #LawandEcon contrasts to #LawandPoliticalEconomy and LPE's theoretical & empirical rigor

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Authors: Peter Boettke & Rosolino Candela @georgemasonu.bsky.social Mercatus Center

📑 Looks at conflation of #lawandecon processes with outcomes of #econanalysisoflaw and lessons from #VirginiaSchool of #politicaleconomy.

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@masonlec.bsky.social #EmergingLawPoliticalEconomy Author+Comment:

✍️ Paul G. Mahoney – Interim President of UVA and @uvalaw.bsky.social Professor

📑 President Mahoney comments on the previous post’s paper by Prof. Todd Zywicki of Antonin Scalia Law

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The Law and Political Economy Project: A Critical Analysis The Yale Law and Political Economy (“LPE”) Project began in 2017 following the surprising election of Donald Trump as President. In that time, LPE has increasin

@masonlec.bsky.social #EmergingLawPoliticalEconomy Author+Paper:

✍️ Prof. Todd Zywicki Antonin Scalia Law

📑 This paper contends that the shift away from the #PostWar prosperity was driven by stagflation, global competition, and Cold War costs.

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Henry G. Manne Program in Law & Economics 2024 – Law & Economics Center

🚀 For #50years, @masonlec.bsky.social has been driving timely, relevant, high-quality research at the intersection of #lawandeconomics.

Next Up #EmergingLawPoliticalEconomy authors+papers supported by the LEC process: presentation ➡️ peer review ➡️ publication.
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