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The Democrats’ ‘Better Deal’ is Neither Better Nor a Deal

 |  November 6, 2017

Posted by Social Science Research Network

The Democrats’ ‘Better Deal’ is Neither Better Nor a Deal

By Daniel A. Crane (University of Michigan) & Thibault Schrepel (University of Paris)

Abstract:     In July 2017, US Congressional Democratic leadership released a policy plank entitled “Better Deal” in which they proposed a radical reinvention of antitrust law. As a partisan blueprint for a populist political agenda, the Better Deal may have some appeal, but most of its ideas are either ill-conceived or poorly structured.

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