Must-note: Pro-Market Writers: The White House Acknowledges: The U.S. Has a Concentration Problem; President Obama Launches New Pro-Competition Initiative

Must-Note: The Economist has long had a house style of no bylines–a deliberate institutional decision about the voice with which they want to speak that has, I think, more downsides the upsides. But we can argue about that.

But what I discovered today is that Pro-Market: The blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business has bylines only for Luigi Zingales, Asher Schechter, and Guy Rolnick. The rest are merely anonymous “Pro-Market Writers”.

This cannot be the right approach, for a large number of reasons that I’m sure you can think of as well as I:

Pro-Market Writers: The White House Acknowledges: The U.S. Has a Concentration Problem; President Obama Launches New Pro-Competition Initiative: “The White House acknowledged the steep price Americans pay due to anti-competitive behavior…

…across our economy, too many consumers are dealing with inferior or overpriced products, too many workers aren’t getting the wage increases they deserve, too many entrepreneurs and small businesses are getting squeezed out unfairly by their bigger competitors, and overall we are not seeing the level of innovative growth we would like to see. And a big piece of why that happens is anti-competitive behavior—companies stacking the deck against their competitors and their workers. We’ve got to fix that, by doing everything we can to make sure that consumers, middle-class and working families, and entrepreneurs are getting a fair deal.

The first action in Obama’s new initiative is to open the market for set-top cable boxes. The administration has singled out the set-top box market as an example of anti-competitiveness leading to inferior and overpriced products for consumers…