Senior Researcher and Policy Advocate Ron Knox contributed to a major new study about how to strengthen California’s antitrust laws.
California is one of just four states that currently has no ban on monopolization or attempted monopolization enshrined in statute. The California Law Revision Commission has been exploring ways to fill this vacuum and strengthen the state’s antitrust laws.
ILSR joined nine other local and national organizations to publish a guide on what can be done. Spearheaded by Economic Security California, Updating California’s Antitrust Law To Promote a Vibrant, Inclusive, and Competitive State Economy demonstrates ways in which the state should strengthen its antitrust laws to better protect workers, small businesses, startups, consumers, and communities throughout the state.
ILSR’s Ron Knox was the lead author of the report’s chapter on merger policy (“Enact state-level merger protections to account for California’s local economic conditions”) and led the development of the recommendations in this section, which focus on how California can better identify and block mergers that threaten competition and harm communities.
Ron Knox“The historical lack of federal vigor, combined with the federal government’s inability to monitor and, when needed, litigate every problematic merger, particularly at the local level, underscore the need for states to enact their own merger and acquisitions laws.”
ILSR's state-by-state guide to antitrust laws, and how those laws work to enable competition and level the playing field.
ILSR details the many policy ideas states can implement to strengthen their antitrust laws to fight corporate monopolies and build local economic power.
In this ILSR event, two State AGs and other changemakers have a lively discussion about how states can advance the goals of the antitrust movement.
Rampant market power abuse is endangering the economic dynamism that New York small businesses generate. State lawmakers have an opportunity to level the playing field.