Anti-Monopoly Policies & Enforcement

June 22, 2022 — Designed to catalogue the ways PBMs wield their power to exploit patients, pharmacists, doctors and our government, "The Pharmacy Benefit Mafia" details PBMs’ abusive business practices, their history of skirting regulation, and how the FTC’s recent efforts can put power back into the hands of patients and pharmacists.

June 13, 2022 — In The Guardian, Economic Liberties’ Research Director Matt Stoller explains how shortages of vital, life-preserving goods are routine in America – and they’re the product of bad policy.

May 13, 2022 — In 1980, Richard Posner and George Stigler drafted a memo to help the Reagan admin “throttle back” antitrust enforcement. As Economic Liberties’ Research Manager & Editor Erik Peinert details for ProMarket, “it gets to the heart of current debates about the direction of antitrust.”

May 3, 2022 (Updated) — "A New Era" details how the Federal Trade Commission, led by Chair Lina Khan, is engaging in more effective, modern, and democratic enforcement to better protect consumers, workers, and independent businesses.

April 27, 2022 — “Stakeholder Capitalism’s Next Frontier: Pro- or Anti-Monopoly?” provides a detailed examination of the growing stakeholder capitalism movement and argues that its failure to embrace anti-monopoly principles is undermining its own objectives.