The Common Ownership Boom – Or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Love Antitrust

By Anna Tzanaki – 

Is common ownership the Doomsday Machine for the operation of free markets, competition and capitalism as we know it? An observer of cutting-edge law and economics literature may indeed tend to believe that we are approaching a point of ultimate antitrust apocalypse. This article tries to unfold the ongoing antitrust-focused debate by exploring a series of questions: (i) who is a common owner; (ii) what are the negative externalities of common ownership; (iii) which