428: New Right Antitrust: Culture War Over Consumer Welfare

About this episode

Thom Lambert discusses the new right antitrust regulators under the Trump II administration and their implications for consumer welfare.

Thom Lambert (Mizzou Law) discusses the Trump II administration’s new right antitrust regulators. Stay calm everyone, they just want the discretion to reward friends and punish enemies. Correction: Contrary to the claim at 34:00, Andrew Ferguson was not on the FTC when it repealed the Section 5 policy statement (2022) or issued the latest merger guidelines (2023). We regret the error. Links: ‘New Right’ Antitrust (https://tinyurl.com/5xureh8p) New Right vs. Conservative Antitrust (https://tinyurl.com/4hnh7jy9) The Limits of Antitrust (https://tinyurl.com/yp2a268f)

People in this episode

Guest: Thom Lambert

Topics covered

• antitrust
• consumer welfare
• politics
• regulation
• Trump administration
• law

Keywords

• antitrust
• consumer welfare
• Trump II
• regulators
• FTC
• Andrew Ferguson
• Mizzou Law

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mizzou Law, Trump II administration, FTC

Books & works: New Right Antitrust, New Right vs. Conservative Antitrust, The Limits of Antitrust

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