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NEW: Ariel Ezrachi warns about the rising trend of political instrumentalization of antitrust and competition enforcement and its consequences. www.promarket.org/2025/10/31/t...

NEW: Karthik Ramanna (@blavatnikschool.bsky.social) discusses why top-down regulatory approaches to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have failed to generate decarbonization at meaningful scales & the virtues of a pro-market approach to incentivizing & enabling greener corporate & consumer behavior.

Eleanor M. Fox and @harry1st.bsky.social (@nyulaw.bsky.social) warn that global strategies and political pressures are undercutting the neutral, rule-of-law competition system. www.promarket.org/2025/11/04/h...

NEW: Europe is acutely aware it has fallen behind competitively, but it is struggling to find a way to recover lost ground. It does not need to be this way, as Europe has tremendous assets and capabilities. But it needs investment and leadership, writes @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social.

Corporate decarbonization policy has stagnated under ideological divisions. Arguing that anthropogenic emissions are driven by customer preferences and that such preferences can shift with improved information, Karthik Ramanna advocates for a new approach: an economy-wide system of reliable and comparable accounts of the embedded emissions in products to allow customers (and investors) to make better-informed decisions aligned with underlying preferences. In the first of two articles, Ramanna discusses why top-down regulatory approaches to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have failed to generate decarbonization at meaningful scales and the virtues of a pro-market approach to incentivizing and enabling greener corporate and consumer behavior.

Europe is acutely aware it has fallen behind competitively, but it is struggling to find a way to recover lost ground. Cristina Caffarra writes that Europe did not find any inspiration in the American anti-monopoly movement, which underpinned the whole-of-government approach of the Biden administration. It is also faltering in developing a response to the vigorous array of tools deployed by the Trump administration to assert power at home and on the world stage. It does not need to be this way, as Europe has tremendous assets and capabilities. But it needs investment and leadership, boldness and experimentation in vision and policy design. Policymakers are beginning to see the urgency, but there is still too much narrow defensive posture by regulators sticking to their patch.

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NEW: Karthik Ramanna (@blavatnikschool.bsky.social) explores the principles of an accounting methodology to provide better greenhouse gas emissions data to business customers & consumers & the reasons why, based on historical precedent, such a system is readily adoptable & likely to prove effective.

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Beatriz Kira (@sussex.ac.uk) argues that Brazil’s proposed digital competition bill shows how the Global South can strengthen regulation of Big Tech platforms without forfeiting competitiveness.

Elon Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire after #Tesla shareholders approved a $1 trillion compensation plan for the CEO. Revisit our ProMarket series on Tesla’s corporate governance by Lucian Bebchuk and Robert J. Jackson Jr. (@nyulaw.bsky.social): www.promarket.org/tag/musk-tes...

Xavier Vives (@iese.bsky.social) argues that to create firms that can compete on the international level, the EU does not need to ease its merger regime or encourage market power. Rather, encouraging European market integration will allow firms to draw in investment and scale up their operations.

Corporate decarbonization policy has stagnated under ideological divisions. Arguing that anthropogenic emissions are driven by customer preferences and that such preferences can shift with improved information, Karthik Ramanna advocates for a new approach: an economy-wide system of reliable and comparable accounts of the embedded emissions in products to allow customers (and investors) to make more-informed decisions aligned with underlying preferences. In part II of his two-part series (read part I here), Ramanna explores the principles of an accounting methodology to provide better greenhouse gas emissions data to business customers and consumers and the reasons why, based on historical precedent, such a system is readily adoptable and likely to prove effective.

Beatriz Kira argues that Brazil's proposed digital competition bill shows how the Global South can strengthen regulation of Big Tech platforms without forfeiting competitiveness. Brazil's efforts build on global models yet chart their own course and belie the false dichotomy between encouraging national business development and protecting competition and its benefits.

Xavier Vives argues that to create firms that can compete on the international level, the European Union does not need to ease its merger regime or encourage market power. Rather, encouraging European market integration will allow firms to draw in investment and scale up their operations.