Erik Peinert
@erikpeinert.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Boston University Political Science. PhD Brown University. Comparative and international political economy. Competition, market power, and maybe lots of other things. Views my own.
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For no particular reason today
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
For no particular reason today
Post-war France aggressively promoted trade liberalization and anti-cartel policies to break up its “Malthusian,” lazy business community, but by the 1960s a generation of these policies had blown a hole right through French corporate profitability.
August 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Post-war France aggressively promoted trade liberalization and anti-cartel policies to break up its “Malthusian,” lazy business community, but by the 1960s a generation of these policies had blown a hole right through French corporate profitability.
Given that people are still arguing about whether this is true not, it’s not obvious to policymakers when this is happening, and after a decade plus of doing policy, you have cadres of political staff and bureaucrats professionally and personally committed to that way of doing policy.
August 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Given that people are still arguing about whether this is true not, it’s not obvious to policymakers when this is happening, and after a decade plus of doing policy, you have cadres of political staff and bureaucrats professionally and personally committed to that way of doing policy.
Some more in the way of summary: we’ve been in in a time of corporate concentration and monopoly profits, and we can point to a lot of policy choices that would make this happen in the US: the relaxing of antitrust enforcement, strengthening of intellectual property rights, etc.
August 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Some more in the way of summary: we’ve been in in a time of corporate concentration and monopoly profits, and we can point to a lot of policy choices that would make this happen in the US: the relaxing of antitrust enforcement, strengthening of intellectual property rights, etc.
