Articles by: Mark Jamison
Regulatory Washington has an appetite for irony, contradiction, and paradox. This is on full display as the Department of Justice (DOJ) seeks to grow online advertising while Congress takes up laws to counteract those efforts. The DOJ has joined several states in filing yet another antitrust case against Google. The new one is about online [...]
President Joe Biden wants to have your online cake and eat it too. His 2023 State of the Union address included numerous announcements of controls on industries and types of citizens. Each deserves to be critiqued, because a government-run economy becomes a failed economy. But I will limit my comments here to his plans for [...]
Smith’s insight that an economy’s purpose is to serve consumers seems self-evident—but not to today’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In three antitrust cases and a change in policy direction, the agency seems to be losing interest in consumers’ preferences. In the cases, the FTC appears to be decreasing its reliance on consumers’ choices in its [...]
On February 1, AEI’s Mark Jamison moderated a discussion between former chairmen of the Federal Trade Commission, AEI’s Timothy J. Muris and Deborah Platt Majoras, on how the Biden administration has returned to the neo-Brandeisian tradition of antitrust policy. Watch this full event below or at AEI.
Social media content moderation has stirred controversies for a number of years. “Fake news” on social media has been decried as a threat to democracy. Politicians pressured social media companies in the run-up to the 2020 election, and cries of misinformation have been frequent in the policy debate over COVID-19. Concerns with political bias by [...]