The Antitrust Accountability Project is an ongoing effort by the Taxpayers Protection Alliance to ensure that competition policy remains narrowly-focused on protecting consumers and not used as a vehicle to advance other political or economic interests.
Expanding and abusing antitrust enforcement would harm innovation and entrepreneurship and impose real costs, in effect raising taxes and harming American consumers.
The Government Antitrust Accountability Project is dedicated to educating the public and government officials about the importance of consumer-focused competition policy and monitoring developments in this space to hold those who would seek to abuse antitrust policy accountable.
After almost a century, the ghost of William E. Humphrey is put to rest. The Supreme Court, in the case Trump v. Slaughter, just decided,
After years of treating corporate scale with entrenched regulatory hostility, the European Union (EU) may have begun to acknowledge that scale helps firms compete. Indeed,
Every enterprise competes on the merits of its business strategy. If a business consistently outperforms its rivals and creates superior value for consumers, it is
Fertilizer prices have become one of the biggest cost pressures facing American farmers. In response, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launched a formal investigation last
Welcome aboard “What You Should Be Reading,” a monthly blog series in which the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA), in remembrance of the latest victim of
In a significant check on regulatory overreach, a federal court decision has just undone one of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) most sweeping recent actions.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is widely recognized as a leading and effective advocate for freedom on a wide range of critical economic and regulatory policy issues. CEI’s research and analysis are cited thousands of times in major media outlets, relied upon by scholars and advocates, and used by members of Congress, executive branch officials, and other federal and state policymakers as the basis for reform actions and proposals. CEI’s work provides policymakers with user-friendly data and analysis, as well as concrete, actionable reform proposals.
The Global Antitrust Institute (GAI) at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University was created to promote the application of sound economic analysis to competition enforcement around the world by providing economic education to judges and competition enforcers from around the world in their Economics Institutes, sharing their legal and economic expertise by submitting written comments to regulators through their Competition Advocacy Program, facilitating debate and discussion of contemporary competition policy issues with events, and hosting visiting scholars from around the world.
The International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) antitrust and consumer protection research agenda emphasizes an empirical, evidence-based approach, informed by a decision theory (“error cost”) mode of analysis. ICLE scholars evaluate the social costs and benefits of proposed interventions, focusing in particular on how institutions affect the appropriateness and the effectiveness of antitrust enforcement.
The Alliance on Antitrustwas established to address the increasing calls to move away from the consumer welfare standard and to use antitrust as a political tool. We believe that weaponizing antitrust for broader socioeconomic purposes would fundamentally alter the primary goal of antitrust law, upend more than a century of legal and economic learning and progress, and undermine the rule of law.
