Max Gulker
Gulker frequently appears at conferences, on podcasts, and on television. Gulker holds a PhD in economics from Stanford University and a BA in economics from the University of Michigan. Prior to AIER, Max spent time in the private sector, consulting with large technology and financial firms on antitrust and other litigation. Follow @maxg_econ.
Articles
The Year in Bad Ideas
The Green New Deal. Hipster Antitrust. Breaking Up Big Tech. Protectionism. Billionaire Tears. New Tech, Old Jobs. Bitcoin Maximalism. Don’t Inhale That. Elizabeth Warren. National Conservatism.
Economies Are Not Intelligently Designed
Taking this evolutionary thinking seriously leaves an agenda for economists that goes well beyond demanding the end of the state.
Europe’s Green Deal Flirts With Central-Planning Disaster
The European Union is radically overhauling its economy in an attempt to combat climate change. Europe’s Green Deal appears slightly more modest than the proposed Green New Deal in the United States, but cost estimates still run as high as $13 trillion by 2050. That’s the year when the EU aims to be a net-zero…
Hipster Antitrust Is Overdue for a Backlash
Democrats can reject neo-Brandeisian antitrust along with the other pillars of left-populism, or seek a victory that in many ways will prolong rather than end the Trump era.
Are We Really Ready for Free-Market Healthcare?
Throughout the vast majority of human history medical technology was so rudimentary that almost nobody had to face the choice between employing significant resources to prolong their life or using them for something else.
Trump’s Tariffs Did Nothing to Boost the Steel Industry
At best, the trade war promised to help those people at the expense of everyone else. In reality, we’re all so connected that such a destructive policy is bound to harm everyone.
Use Economics to Lose 15 Pounds Before the Holidays
With a few rules the decision of what and when to eat moves to the slower, smarter part of our brains.
We Thrive Thanks to Many Andrew Yangs, Not One
Entrepreneurs, it turns out, don’t need to understand entrepreneurship. The same creativity that led Yang to create value in our economy now leads him astray.
Elizabeth Warren’s Anti-Consumer Plan to Break Up Big Tech
Should Senator Warren or others choose to apply a decades-old rulebook to split up or regulate Amazon and Google, their lack of innovation risks costing consumers dearly.
Government Is the Real Victim of “Billionaire Greed”
Casting billionaires as direct actors leading to poverty and inequality puts the actual well-being of people behind the short-term success of someone’s political agenda. Now that’s what I call injustice.
