# Larry White's "Antitrust Economics and Consumer Protection Economics in Policy and Litigation: Why the Disparity?" published in the Economic Inquiry

##  Larry White's "Antitrust Economics and Consumer Protection Economics in Policy and Litigation: Why the Disparity?" published in the Economic Inquiry

*October 21, 2020*

The article argues that the disparity between the greater attention that economics has given to antitrust policy versus the lesser attention to consumer protection policy is due to 3 causes: a) the longer intellectual history and development of industrial organization; the history and culture of the Federal Trade Commission (where both policies are supposed to be pursued); and the splintering of consumer protection policy among a large number of federal and state agencies.

[Larry White](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/lawrence-white) is the Robert Kavesh Professor of Economics at NYU Stern*.*
Read the full paper [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OfyUi9tYSkjczY2usbIfRK9U21cx1iZ7/view?usp=sharing)*.*