This course examines how antitrust law and competition policy have responded to dominant enterprises over time, in particular multisided platforms. The course traces the evolution of scholarly and policy approaches toward competition, including the New Deal Progressives, the Chicago School, and the New Brandeisians. Today, the New Brandeisians claim that antitrust’s focus on narrow economic goals has enabled tech platforms to amass monopoly power while harming competition, labor, privacy, and the environment. In essence, the progressive antitrust movement is tackling an age-old question: how does an arcane, open-ended antitrust statute keep up with the times?


TA: Julia Chang (r11a21091@ntu.edu.tw)