Eric Posner

New paper: The Silicon Valley No-Poach Conspiracy
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AI Judges Follow The Law, Human Judges Follow Their Hearts, Study Reveals AI follows law, but humans follow hearts. Study shows judges are swayed by sympathetic defendants, while AI judges consistently apply legal rules.

Forbes features research from Prof. @ericposner.bsky.social and researcher Shivam Saran that compares AI and human judicial decisions.

Prof. @ericposner.bsky.social and researcher Shivam Saran’s paper comparing the performance of federal judges against GPT is featured in @washingtonpost.com.

Opinion | A provocative experiment pits AI against federal judges An experiment involving AI and federal judges reveals the humane element in justice.

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Antitrust from Trump to Biden to Trump - ProMarket The new Trump administration’s antitrust leaders are unexpectedly maintaining the Biden administration’s enforcement priorities, including the 2023 Merger Guidelines. Eric Posner explains why this bip...

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I meant economic stagnation, maybe some social and political chaos, ruined reputations, low public morale

Labor antitrust survives!
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I think the Republic survives but the country will be wounded

Claude.AI discusses ChatGPT's stint as judge on (fictional) international court
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Sounds like L. must have read "Executive Unbound"

Inflation’s lasting pressure: A hotel worker’s story shows the struggle Inflation has come way down since June 2022. But the issue might have decided the recent election. Here’s one story, from a Boston hotel worker, of how its effects still weigh on Americans.

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Power Moves: Professor Eric Posner on Presidential Authority Donald Trump swept into office this week with a deluge of executive actions aimed at reshaping the federal government in his image. The bounds of presidential power have evolved over the country’s…

Prof. @ericposner.bsky.social discusses presidential authority on the Takeout Podcast.

Today is a big day for US tax policy - it’s the first time you can start your tax return using information the IRS already has about you: directfile.irs.gov This is government efficiency in action

The Supreme Court Meets the Free Speech Triangle.

My latest article discusses Moody v. NetChoice. It's now available on SSRN.

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Opinion | Can Trump Be a Great President? Pushing power to the limit does not guarantee presidential success.

My take on Trump 2.0 at its outset. Plenty in here for everyone to dislike. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/o...

What Happened to International Law? | by Eric Posner - Project Syndicate Eric Posner sees the web of treaties, conventions, and institutions as another victim of the anti-globalization backlash.

“The ruins of international law are all around us”, writes @ericposner.bsky.social on @projectsyndicate.bsky.social. Maybe. But it ignores the progress in some fields and the fact that ‘ruins’ in the past tended to lead to stronger laws: 1918, 1945, 1994,… www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/i...

What Happened to International Law? | by Eric Posner - Project Syndicate Eric Posner sees the web of treaties, conventions, and institutions as another victim of the anti-globalization backlash.

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Can Judge AI decide legal cases?
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We Are Already Defying the Supreme Court - Dissent Magazine The risks of calling on politicians to push back against the court must be weighed against the present reality of a malign judicial dictatorship.

John Roberts is concerned about increasing calls to defy Supreme Court rulings. Actually, though, defiance is already a standard part of our legal system. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/we-a...

Is Labor Antitrust a "Nonexistent" Problem? - ProMarket In a recent revision of its Premerger Notification Regulation, the FTC removed labor market provisions from the previous draft as Commissioner Melissa Holyoak dismissed them as "a solution in search of a nonexistent problem." Eric Posner argues that her assessment contradicts a substantial body of academic research showing that labor market concentration is indeed a serious concern.

@ericposner.bsky.social recently argued there's incontrovertible evidence supporting more antitrust scrutiny of labor markets & criticized Melissa Holyoak's skepticism of labor-related provisions in the FTC’s proposed HSR rules. But is the evidence really so clear? www.promarket.org/2024/10/24/...

A brief history of the world’s financial enthusiasms in one table

Mergers are followed by large and persistent increases in lobbying activity, both by individual firms and by industry trade associations, suggesting that firms with market power will also attempt to gain political power.

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Why is the US in a housing crisis, and what can be done about it? More people are seeking homes than there are places to buy or rent, which contributes to high prices. Here’s what led to the housing crisis, and some potential solutions.

I wrote another story on housing! This one explains why rent and home prices have shot up, and what can be done about it.

Jerusalem Demsas' new book, "On The Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy" was a big inspiration.

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There is a common notion in antitrust that greater output benefits workers.

But this paper shows that if firms have market power, this is not always the case. At high levels of markups, firms may REDUCE their (labor) input demand when they become more productive.
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@superwuster.bsky.social @stevesalop.bsky.social @sherman1890.bsky.social The FTC really botched the labor market analysis. The court was sympathetic to their approach and accepted the market definition but complained that it was not supplied with modeling or data, not even HHIs.

Trump’s Pro-Corporate Populism Cannot Last | by Eric Posner - Project Syndicate Eric Posner thinks the next president will be forced to choose between big business and the forgotten man.

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Albertsons Terminates Merger Agreement Albertsons Companies, Inc. (NYSE: ACI) (the

NEW: Albertsons terminates merger agreement with Kroger -

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Albertsons just admitted that it knew all along that the grocery store divestiture package was a flaming dumpster fire—by suing Kroger for breach of contract.

Kroger "reject[ed] better divestiture buyers" and put together "insufficient divestiture proposals that ignored regulators' concerns"

The Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is The Apotheosis Of Bag Culture | Defector I can’t ease you into this one, so: Haliey Welch, colloquially known as the “Hawk Tuah girl,” launched a bespoke cryptocurrency token called HAWK last Wednesday, the same day she told Fortune it was “...

excellent piece. feels like the classic canary in the coal mine vis-a-vis looming financial crisis defector.com/the-hawk-tua...