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Eric Posner on How Antitrust Failed Workers


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Mike talks with Eric Posner, the Kirkland and Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, about his latest book, How Antitrust Failed Workers. In this discussion, they cover:

  • monopolies and monopsonies
  • labor market concentration
  • why there are so few labor-focused antitrust actions
  • important differences between labor markets and product markets
  • the use and abuse of non-compete and no poaching agreements
  • how antitrust law can be used to help workers
  • and lots more

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