All Posts Tagged With: "FTC"
Is the Decline of Newspapers a Market Failure?
Over the past year there has been a flurry of government-related activity aimed at stopping the decline of the newspaper business. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has held three series of workshops on the subject, drawing dozens of top academics, national politicians, business leaders from companies like Google and News Corporation, and the FTC commissioners [...]
22Sep2010 | Edward J. López | 6 comments | ContinuedThe Myth of Unregulated Tobacco
On June 22, President Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (FSPTCA), a law that gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory authority over tobacco products. The law requires the FDA to develop a new tobacco-regulation center with all related costs to be covered by fees paid by the industry. [...]
19Aug2009 | Bruce Yandle | 0 comments | ContinuedThe FTC Gets in Its Licks
The freedom of Americans to peacefully manage their own affairs has been shrinking for many decades, as government officials find more and more reasons to tell us what things we must do and what things we may not do. The pettiness of it all is wonderfully demonstrated in a recent decision by the agency that [...]
1Oct2003 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedIt Just Ain’t So!
Harvard University law professor Einer Elhauge argued in the Washington Post last summer that free-market economists who oppose the multibillion-dollar tobacco litigation have made a big mistake. Professor Elhauge writes that opponents are apparently unaware that for the past 40 years the tobacco companies conspired in order “not to independently market safer tobacco products” and [...]
1Dec1998 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Attack on Concentration
This article is condensed from an address before the Ashland, Kentucky, Economic Club, September 15, 1978. (Editor’s Note: Yale Brozen, former member of FEE’s board of trustees and a retired professor of business economics at the University of Chicago, died March 4. Reprinted below as a memorial is his article published in The Freeman, January [...]
1Jun1998 | Yale Brozen | 0 comments | ContinuedWhen Entrepreneurs Become Victims
Dr. Groff is professor emeritus of education at San Diego State University. For a capitalist economy to function, entrepreneurs must not be subject to gratuitous or capricious government action. It is a violation of the cardinal precepts of free markets, as well as common moral sensibilities, for government to publicly vilify legitimate entrepreneurs. The Federal [...]
1Jul1996 | Patrick Groff | 2 comments | Continued-
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