Source: Law and Liberty
by Kevin Frazier
“The Neo-Brandeisian conception of antitrust touted by Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan and others can be boiled down to ‘big business is bad.’ Their response, in short, is to develop a complex regulatory regime that prevents the ills associated with that bigness. This approach suffers from at least two flaws: first, it assumes that regulatory costs will hit the biggest corporations the hardest; and, second, and relatedly, it neglects to consider that a larger regulatory state is also a threat to liberty and our constitutional order. Neo-Brandeisians need not give up on their strategy — they need only recognize that fighting corporate giants also requires slaying government behemoths.” (06/13/24)