To view this email as a web page, go to the link below, or copy and paste it into your browser's address window.
[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]
Putting Amazon in a Box By Satya Marar and Rishab Sardana
Beyond wasting taxpayer dollars, the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) most recent lawsuit against Amazon raises many questions and concerns. The FTC alleges Amazon is using its monopoly power to engage in anti-competitive practices, but if practices like charging fees, producing and preferencing one’s products over competitors, and tying some platform features to others may seem intuitively self-serving, it is because they are. They are intrinsic to making the Amazon ecosystem what it is. Amazon’s practices benefit consumers and retailers by enabling the features they seek in a digital marketplace.
Will consumers be worse off under the current system than under the alternative?
[link removed]
Continue Reading →
NEWS & MEDIA
[link removed]
Too Much Misinformation? The Issue Is Demand, Not Supply
Tyler Cowen
[link removed]
BLOOMBERG OPINION
[link removed]
Good Government' Is a Two-Way Street
Veronique de Rugy
[link removed]
CREATORS SYNDICATE
[link removed]
DISCOURSE MAGAZINE
[link removed]
Escaping the Identity Trap
[link removed]
Ben Klutsey
[link removed]
IDEAS
[link removed]
Where Is the D.C. Uniparty When We Need It?
[link removed]
Robert Tracinski
[link removed]
POLITICS
[link removed]
SUBSTACKS
[link removed]
An Ominous Outlook for the Banking Sector
[link removed]
Stephen Matteo Miller
[link removed]
FINREGRAG
[link removed]
Thousands of Regulations Are Behind Paywalls
[link removed]
Patrick McLaughlin
[link removed]
THIRD ORDER
[link removed]
Controlling Healthcare Costs: Will Shaming and Coercing Hospitals Work?
[link removed]
Kofi Ampaabeng
[link removed]
[link removed]
OPEN HEALTH POLICY
[link removed]
PODCASTS
[link removed]
[link removed]
Vanisha Sharma on the Effects of Internet Expansion in Developing Communities
[link removed]
Listen Now
[link removed]
[link removed]
Lev Menand and Josh Younger on *Money and the Public Debt: Treasury Market Liquidity as a Legal Phenomenon*
[link removed]
Listen Now
Support the Work We DoDonate to the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
[link removed]
Donate Today
[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]
----------------------------------------
This email was sent by:
Mercatus Center
3434 Washington Blvd., 4th Floor
Arlington, VA, 22201, USA
We respect your right to privacy - visit the following URL to view our policy.
( [link removed] )
----------------------------------------
Visit the following URL to manage your subscriptions.
( [link removed] )
Visit the following URL to update your profile.
( [link removed] )
Visit the following URL to unsubscribe.
( [link removed] )
