#Bestof2021: 1/2: Reawakening antitrust; & what is to be done? @RichardAEpstein
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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https://www.hoover.org/research/labor-markets-dont-need-antitrust-cudgel
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| 0:29.2 | pricing shown. This is a CBSI and the world. I'm John Bachelor. I welcome Professor Richard Epstein, |
| 0:40.0 | Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution writing and defining ideas about the |
| 0:44.1 | Biden administration's antitrust concerns. I go immediately to a news item at the |
| 0:51.1 | beginning of the month. The U.S. Justice Department's acting |
| 0:55.2 | head of its antitrust division, Mr. Richard Powell, said that labor markets |
| 1:00.0 | were a top priority for enforcement efforts, indicating a shift toward issues set by the White |
| 1:05.2 | House's executive orders on competition. |
| 1:08.2 | Richard, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:10.3 | That dry language points to a presentation that I learned from you in defining ideas |
| 1:16.5 | is about the concerns that the Biden administration have, that excessive concentration of labor of businesses leads to wage reduction if I have read you correctly. |
| 1:29.0 | How so? What does that mean wage reduction? |
| 1:32.0 | Because there are too many workers who are good masons so therefore we can cut the payment per hour we pay in this region? |
| 1:40.4 | Is that what they're talking about? |
| 1:41.6 | Well they're talking about it in some of what typical term. |
| 1:44.8 | The way in which they describe this as monobscony. |
| 1:47.6 | And a monopoly is where a seller has exclusive control over a market. |
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