The “Better Deal” Makes Competition Policy a National Priority — AAI Offers An Actionable Agenda Moving Forward

With the announcement of the “Better Deal,” the Democrats in Congress made competition policy a national priority. In recent work, the AAI has articulated concrete, actionable steps to effectively promote competition in the U.S. economy. In September of 2016, the AAI issued its National Competition Policy Statement, which provides detailed priorities for an antitrust enforcement agenda moving forward. It proposes a variety of enforcement and policy responses to the problems of growing concentration, increasing inequality, and decreasing rates of start-ups that antitrust scholars, enforcers, and policymakers have identified over the last several years. The AAI also highlights the many tools in the current antitrust “toolkit” for how enforcement can tackle inequality. In a recent op-ed, AAI President Diana Moss outlines what antitrust has done and should do to help workers.