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FTC Chair Lina Khan on Antitrust in the age of Amazon

2023-11-03 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·30m 6s ·by NPR
FTC Chair Lina Khan on Antitrust in the age of Amazon
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About this episode

When Lina Khan was in law school back in 2017, she wrote a law review article called ‘Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox,’ that went kinda viral in policy circles. In it, she argued that antitrust enforcement in the U.S. was behind the times. For decades, regulators had focused narrowly on consumer welfare,