Our response to the article, "The Antitrust Theory of Everything,” in The Atlantic
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When one framework gets applied to every economic ill, is it visionary systems thinking or dangerous overreach — the Open Markets Institute's antitrust crusade forces that question.
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Theory Briefing
- The Open Markets Institute fired back at The Atlantic's critique that antitrust is being stretched beyond its useful limits.
- The debate exposes a core tension in systems thinking: whether a single causal framework can explain sprawling, complex economic harms.
- Antitrust law's expanding scope — from Big Tech to healthcare to agriculture — tests whether the theory retains predictive and legal power.