Big Tech, Antitrust, and the Supreme Court

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Antitrust is making headlines, with figures as diverse as Josh Hawley and Elizabeth Warren seeking to use it as a shiny new tool to rein in big tech. But some of the policies they’re pushing were tried before in the 1960s, and they ended up penalizing perfectly competitive conduct just out of animosity for “big business.” A Supreme Court dissent that paved the way for a consumer-first antitrust standard offers lessons about why we shouldn’t be so eager to return to 1960s anti-trust policy and gives us some insight into why big isn’t always bad. Thanks to our guests Joshua Wright, Ashley Baker, Yaron Brook, and Hannah Cox. Special thanks to Judge Douglas Ginsburg for his dramatic reading.…