Laurel Kilgour

Aug 25, 2024 | thesling.org | David Berri |Laurel Kilgour |Kenny Stancil

College athletics are most definitely changing. For more than a century, the NCAA has maintained absolute control over the athletes’ labor market and restricted their pay to only a scholarship. But it appears that soon athletes will be paid a share of the revenue that college sports generate. This means that the expense report of each athletic department around the nation will soon include a new entry: Wages Expense—AthletesSo, where will the money come from to meet this expense?

Jan 29, 2024 | thesling.org | Kenny Stancil |Laurel Kilgour

Larry Summers and other corporate apologists asserted for over a year that the Federal Reserve would have to engineer a recession to bring down prices. But as inflation continues to fall with no corresponding rise in unemployment, doomsayers’ insistence on the need to throw millions of people out of work to restore price stability has been discredited.

Oct 24, 2023 | thesling.org | Brian Callaci |Sandeep Vaheesan |Laurel Kilgour |Daniel A. Hanley

America’s working people and their elected representatives in the labor movement have been an untapped resource for antitrust enforcers. That should change. Not only are workers an underutilized source of information about the likely effects of a merger, but their labor organizations also offer an effective counter to employer power. As signaled with the Executive Order on Promoting Competition issued in July 2021, the Biden administration has adopted a new approach to competition policy.

Oct 20, 2023 | thesling.org | Daniel A. Hanley |Laurel Kilgour |Darren Bush

For years, journalists have reported numerous instances of worker exploitation, hazardous working conditions, and poverty wages in the nail salon and fast food industries.

Jul 21, 2023 | thesling.org | Dylan Gyauch-Lewis |David Berri |Laurel Kilgour

Over the past two years, heterodox economic theory has burst into the public eye more than ever as conventional macroeconomic models have failed to explain the economy we’ve been living in since 2020. In particular, theories around consolidation and corporate power as factors in macroeconomic trends–from neo-Brandeisian antitrust policy to theories of profit seeking as a driver of inflation–have exploded onto the scene.