Economy

Gail Slater has left the building. And that’s a shame, I think. On Feb. 12, Slater posted the following on X: It is with great sadness and abiding hope that …

The push to restrict teens’ access to social media is accelerating worldwide, even as the underlying evidence remains uncertain. In recent years, policymakers across various jurisdictions have proposed restricting or …

Policymakers and commentators often treat large language models (LLMs) as if they were searchable repositories of personal data. The intuition is understandable: these systems train on massive corpora that may …

The Supreme Court just clipped one presidential tariff tool. It didn’t disarm U.S. trade policy. Properly used, the decision could push tariffs toward a more disciplined role: countering foreign market …

The road between regulating conduct and regulating speech may be skinny—and typically, suspiciously handy. Final week, my Worldwide Middle for Legislation & Economics (ICLE) colleagues Ben Sperry and Jeff Westling …

For months, the antitrust bar has targeted on Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s proposed merger with Juniper Networks. Critics—together with a number of state attorneys basic—argue that the U.S. Division of Justice …

Merger-control debates are inclined to repeat themselves. As new transaction types emerge, regulators typically transfer rapidly to reply earlier than hurt turns into irreversible. Over the previous decade, this sample …

The struggle over the way to defend youngsters on-line underneath the First Modification has intensified within the opening weeks of the 12 months. Two product-liability trials lately started asking whether …

Antitrust has at all times been a wierd regulatory enterprise. Companies are largely free to have interaction in varied business practices involving worth, output, product design, distribution, analysis, and innovation—till …

“What Is Legislation? A Coordination Mannequin of the Traits of Authorized Order” by Gillian Okay. Hadfield and Barry R. Weingast asks whether or not authorized order requires a centralized enforcement …