Slingshot

Erik Peinert, assistant professor of political science at Boston University, discusses his book, "Monopoly Politics: Competition and Learning in the Evolution of Policy Regimes” and recent LPB Blog Post with Hal Singer and Darren Bush

Hal and Darren discuss remedies in the Google search case with AELP’s Laurel Kilgour.

Darren and Hal discuss the FTC's pending challenge of Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp with John Newman, former deputy director the FTC's Bureau of Competition.

Professor Mehrsa Baradaran, UC Irvine School of Law, discusses her book "The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America" (Liveright/Norton Press 2024) with Hal Singer and Darren Bush.

The Slingshot crew chats with Katie Wells about her new study on the uberization of nursing, as well as her new book “Disrupting DC: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City.”

Darren and Hal interview John Farrell, director of Energy Democracy Initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, about his new study detailing the myriad ways in which the monopoly utility model imposes significant costs on society.

Hal and Darren interview Isabella Weber, economics professor at University Massachusetts Amherst, to discuss the impact of inflation on voter sentiment and economic tools outside of monetary policy to address future supply shocks. 

Dylan Gyauch-Lewis, who runs the Revolving Door Project’s Economic Media Project, and Luke Goldstein, writing fellow at The American Prospect, discuss price gouging, RealPage and rental markets, and Kroger/Albertson’s with Hal Singer and Darren Bush. 

Darren and Hal interview David Berri, professor of economics at Southern Utah University, about David’s new book, Slaying The Trolls. They also discuss Caitlin Clark and the gender-wage gap in basketball, as well as the NCAA's efforts to promote women’s sports.

Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director of Open Markets, discusses the FTC's new rule that bans existing non-competes for nearly all employees, the FTC's challenge of the fashion merger between Tapestry and Capri, and his new paper “A Revival of Nondomination in Antitrust Law.