# Alden Abbott

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The Importance of Reducing Anticompetitive Market Distortions, With Alden Abbott and Shanker Singham

There is a troubling chasm between trade policy and competition policy. Rob and Jackie sat down with Alden Abbott, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, and Shanker Singham, one of the world's leading international trade and competition economists, to discuss how to bridge the gap between …

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The FTC ruled last week that non-compete agreements that employers put in agreements with employees are no longer allowed. But Alden Abbott says the FTC has no right to make that decision. And he should know, he's the former General Counsel for the FTC, currently a Senior Research Fellow with the M…

The Power Hour Special | Talking Trade, Energy, and the Environment with Shanker Singham and Alden Abbott

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. In this special episode, hosts Jack Spencer and Rachael Wilfong sit down with trade experts Shanker Singham and Alden Abbott to talk about their new book, Trade, …

The 2024 Patent Landscape and a Roadmap for Future Innovation and Prosperity

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Alden Abbott, Senior Research Fellow at Mercatus Center and former General Counsel at the Federal Trade Commission, discusses the 2024 patent landscape, legal decisions and foreign developments that pose a danger to America's patent-driven world leadership, and four specific federal actions that ca…

The Most Important Issues Facing the IP Industry

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we have a special episode. At the end of September we held our annual all-topics conference, which we call IPWatchdog LIVE. This conference brings together some of the top thought leaders and newsmakers from the entire industry, with a variety of d…

Artificial Intelligence and Competition Policy

Join us for an engaging discussion with Thibault Schrepel and Alden Abbott, editors of the book Artificial Intelligence and Competition Policy, released by Concurrences. In this comprehensive dialogue, Schrepel and Abbott delve into the critical issues at the intersection of artificial intelligence…

Explainer Episode 83 - The Failed JetBlue-Spirit Merger: The Past and Present Approach to Mergers

In November 2024, Spirit Airlines filed for bankruptcy after a federal judge blocked their proposed merger with JetBlue Airlines earlier that year. Far from simply impacting travel plans, however, the failed merger shows the Federal Trade Commission's recent focus on efficiency. Former FTC General …

Alden Abbott on the Chicago School, the Neo-Brandeisian Experiment, and the Future of Conservative Antitrust

Joseph V. Coniglio hosts the second episode of a new antitrust speaker series and interviews Alden Abbott, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and an advisory board member of the Antitrust Education Project.​ They discuss antitrust’s Chicago Revolution, Neo-Bran…

Markets, Mercy, and True Prudence

By Alden Abbott But first a note from Robert Royal: So, we're back at our fundraising – and need to be. We're well into the campaign but need to pick up the pace. I know this isn't a great economy at the moment, but we have to ask you to pray and dig deep. It's a good deal. I'm told the reward for …

The Vatican Should Reaffirm the Culture of Life

By Alden Abbott The Catholic bishops of Arlington and Richmond, Michael Burbidge and Barry Knestout, urged Virginians to reject Ballot Question 1 next month, a proposed constitutional amendment that would expand legal access to abortion. The bishops warned that the measure would establish a so-call…