Michael Munger on Antitrust

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🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Are tech giants such as Google, Amazon, or Facebook dangerous? Do they have too much power? Dive into the murky waters of antitrust as Michael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about monopoly, antitrust policy, and competition in the 21st century.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:13.0	Institution.
0:14.0	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.6	You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:38.0	Today is March 15, 2022 and my guest is Mike Munger of Duke University.
0:42.4	This is Mike's 41st appearance on econ talk.
0:46.4	Last year in December of 2021 to discuss constitutions, her topic for today is Anti-Trust.
0:53.2	Mike, welcome back to econ talk.
0:56.0	It is a pleasure as always.
0:58.0	Thank you, Russ.
0:59.0	This is based on an article you've written recently that we will post a link to trying
1:05.1	to see the role of anti-trust in today's world as possibly very different from in the
1:10.6	past and how it might relate to actually our previous conversation on constitutions.
1:15.7	But let's start.
1:17.1	We're talking about what we might call a new called traditional anti-trust policy.
1:21.9	What was traditional anti-trust policy?
1:24.6	We have a very good podcast on econ talk about this where you talked to Richard Epstein.
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