Antitrust And Inequality – Time For A Paradigm Change

By Damjan Kukovec

The debate about antitrust and inequality reveals that increased antitrust enforcement and equality are not necessarily connected. It further reveals that there is a lack of evidence on antitrust
enforcement’s impact on society, including on its ability to increase the pie for the world as a whole. Antitrust law is thus ripe for a paradigm shift if it is to play a serious role in combating abuse of power and the reproduction of concentration of wealth in the twenty-first cen...