Historically, the automotive industry has been one of the most coddled, heavily subsidised industries in the EU. Only last year, fossil fuel car producers got 42€ billion in taxpayer money. If there is a right way to do industrial policy, this probably isn’t it.

Or, as Marla Daniels said in “The Wire”: You can’t lose if you don’t play.

Lest antitrust law becomes a tool for full-scale socio-economic engineering - which it was never intended for - its epistemological expansion must be disciplined by a principle - like other areas of law. That principle is the consumer welfare standard. Gr8 thread from @lazradic.bsky.social

1/ This paper w @CompetitionProf explores a provocative idea: the rise of the consumer welfare standard wasn’t a top-down neoliberal coup, but a pragmatic response to the need for legal certainty, administrability, and evidence in judicialized systems. 🧵 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Friends, General Motors exits the robotaxi market, and planet antitrust stays silent??? Here are three overlooked teachings of that story 1/N

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Go read our last piece of the year with Lazar Radic👇 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....