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There’s Nothing Standard about Standard Oil: Lessons for Modern Antitrusters
Manage episode 505695283 series 3549321
The standard, classroom story about the history of antitrust starts with crusading progressive activists breaking up the Standard Oil trust in 1911 to save consumers from corporate greed. But a closer look at the case shows something rather different: a story about anti-competitive rent-seeking hidden in the guise of fighting for the little guy. Peter and Paul discuss William Shughart’s Regulation article “Reappreaising Standard Oil” and then apply what they learn to contemporary antitrust cases like Epic Games v Apple.
In conjunction with Regulation Magazine Summer 2025 edition.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
16 episodes
Manage episode 505695283 series 3549321
The standard, classroom story about the history of antitrust starts with crusading progressive activists breaking up the Standard Oil trust in 1911 to save consumers from corporate greed. But a closer look at the case shows something rather different: a story about anti-competitive rent-seeking hidden in the guise of fighting for the little guy. Peter and Paul discuss William Shughart’s Regulation article “Reappreaising Standard Oil” and then apply what they learn to contemporary antitrust cases like Epic Games v Apple.
In conjunction with Regulation Magazine Summer 2025 edition.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
16 episodes
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