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Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how strong competition among U.S. businesses affects inequality and broad-based economic growth.

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Monopoly power threatens broader economic growth and exacerbates inequality by increasing prices, hindering new business formation, stifling innovation, and diminishing workers’ wages. Current research on the U.S. economy increasingly finds decreasing competition and increasing concentration across industries. Equitable Growth supports research to understand the causes and impacts of increasing market power and to develop policy proposals that will strengthen competition.

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The impacts of increasing U.S. hospital consolidation on Medicaid recipients

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What the research says about the impacts of hospital consolidation across the United States

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U.S. labor market concentration, competition, and worker bargaining power as employment trends shift from manufacturing to services

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Major federal ‘Big Tech’ antitrust case against Google will test the strength of current U.S. antitrust laws in new digital markets

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New research suggests connections between market concentration and the exercise of political power in the United States

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The state of U.S. federal antitrust enforcement

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Trying to get a grip on the gig economy

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The consequences of unskewed U.S. business growth

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Equitable growth and Southern California’s aerospace industry

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Explaining the “History of Technology” series and equitable growth

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Why ‘disgorging the cash’ can undermine economic growth

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Checking in on the herd of unicorns

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We need better data on U.S. entrepreneurship

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Putting rents at the center of U.S. income inequality

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The relationship between U.S. productivity growth and the decline in the labor share of national income

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Finance and competition in the U.S. economy

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TOPICS: Credit & Debt
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What explains the decline in U.S. public corporations?

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Index funds, inequality, and competition among firms

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A monthly series that discusses how to increase competition in the U.S. economy.

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Experts on the issue

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Gabriel Unger

Stanford University

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Minji Kim

Georgetown University

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Seula Kim

Princeton University

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Aaron S. Kesselheim

Harvard University

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James W. Roberts

Duke University

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