Sharon Block is the former executive director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, where she also teaches. Before coming to Harvard, she served eight years in the Obama administration in senior positions at the Department ofLabor, the National Labor Relations Board, and the White House. Prior to the Obamaadministration, she served as Senior Labor and Employment Counsel for Senator Edward Kennedy on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. She currentlyserves as the Associate Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Officeof Management and Budget.Benjamin H. Harris is a counselor to the U.S. Treasury Secretary. He previously served as the chief economist with Results for America, the executive director of the Kellogg Public-Private Initiative at the Kellogg School of Management, and chief economist to Vice President Joe Biden in the Obama White House.

• Contents:List of IllustrationsAbbreviationsPreface1. Fostering More-Competitive Labor Markets, Joseph E. Stiglitz2. The Legal Case for Reform, Sharon Block and Benjamin Elga3. Labor Market Competition: Framing the Issues, Jared Bernstein and Benjamin H. Harris4. Fighting Monopsony: A Lack of Competition that Harms Workers, Ioana Elena Marinescu5. Fair Competition in Labor Markets Requires a Policymaker's Thumb on the Workers' Side of the Scale, Josh Bivens and Heidi Shierholz6. How Antitrust Law Can Help—Instead of Hurt—Workers, Sandeep Vaheesan and Matthew Buck7. Protecting Competition on Behalf of the People: The Role of State Attorneys General in Challenging Noncompetes and Other Restraints on Employee Mobility, Lisa Madigan and Jane Flanagan8. Are Noncompetes Holding Down Wages? Evan Starr9. Fostering More-Competitive Labor Markets through Transparent Wages, Benjamin H. Harris10. Having Their Cake and Eating It Too: Antitrust Laws and the Fissured Workplace, David H. Seligman11. Forced Arbitration: A Losing Proposition for Workers, Terri Gerstein12. Federal Evidence-Based Competition Policy, Kate Tromble and Gregory Nantz13. Addressing Labor Market Competition at the State Level, Jed Herrmann and Gregory NantzContributorsIndex

“This volume offers ideas on how we can rewrite the rules of the economy to make the labor market more competitive and prevent the anticompetitive practices that employers have systematically used to increase their market power. This volume also provides a rich policy agenda for how to redress these imbalances—an essential component in protecting our democracy.”—Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate and professor, Columbia University

Sharon Block is the former executive director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, where she also teaches. Before coming to Harvard, she served eight years in the Obama administration in senior positions at the Department ofLabor, the National Labor Relations Board, and the White House. Prior to the Obamaadministration, she served as Senior Labor and Employment Counsel for Senator Edward Kennedy on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. She currentlyserves as the Associate Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Officeof Management and Budget.Benjamin H. Harris is a counselor to the U.S. Treasury Secretary. He previously served as the chief economist with Results for America, the executive director of the Kellogg Public-Private Initiative at the Kellogg School of Management, and chief economist to Vice President Joe Biden in the Obama White House.

• Contents:List of IllustrationsAbbreviationsPreface1. Fostering More-Competitive Labor Markets, Joseph E. Stiglitz2. The Legal Case for Reform, Sharon Block and Benjamin Elga3. Labor Market Competition: Framing the Issues, Jared Bernstein and Benjamin H. Harris4. Fighting Monopsony: A Lack of Competition that Harms Workers, Ioana Elena Marinescu5. Fair Competition in Labor Markets Requires a Policymaker's Thumb on the Workers' Side of the Scale, Josh Bivens and Heidi Shierholz6. How Antitrust Law Can Help—Instead of Hurt—Workers, Sandeep Vaheesan and Matthew Buck7. Protecting Competition on Behalf of the People: The Role of State Attorneys General in Challenging Noncompetes and Other Restraints on Employee Mobility, Lisa Madigan and Jane Flanagan8. Are Noncompetes Holding Down Wages? Evan Starr9. Fostering More-Competitive Labor Markets through Transparent Wages, Benjamin H. Harris10. Having Their Cake and Eating It Too: Antitrust Laws and the Fissured Workplace, David H. Seligman11. Forced Arbitration: A Losing Proposition for Workers, Terri Gerstein12. Federal Evidence-Based Competition Policy, Kate Tromble and Gregory Nantz13. Addressing Labor Market Competition at the State Level, Jed Herrmann and Gregory NantzContributorsIndex

“This volume offers ideas on how we can rewrite the rules of the economy to make the labor market more competitive and prevent the anticompetitive practices that employers have systematically used to increase their market power. This volume also provides a rich policy agenda for how to redress these imbalances—an essential component in protecting our democracy.”—Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate and professor, Columbia University

Sharon Block is the former executive director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, where she also teaches. Before coming to Harvard, she served eight years in the Obama administration in senior positions at the Department ofLabor, the National Labor Relations Board, and the White House. Prior to the Obamaadministration, she served as Senior Labor and Employment Counsel for Senator Edward Kennedy on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. She currentlyserves as the Associate Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Officeof Management and Budget.Benjamin H. Harris is a counselor to the U.S. Treasury Secretary. He previously served as the chief economist with Results for America, the executive director of the Kellogg Public-Private Initiative at the Kellogg School of Management, and chief economist to Vice President Joe Biden in the Obama White House.

• Contents:List of IllustrationsAbbreviationsPreface1. Fostering More-Competitive Labor Markets, Joseph E. Stiglitz2. The Legal Case for Reform, Sharon Block and Benjamin Elga3. Labor Market Competition: Framing the Issues, Jared Bernstein and Benjamin H. Harris4. Fighting Monopsony: A Lack of Competition that Harms Workers, Ioana Elena Marinescu5. Fair Competition in Labor Markets Requires a Policymaker's Thumb on the Workers' Side of the Scale, Josh Bivens and Heidi Shierholz6. How Antitrust Law Can Help—Instead of Hurt—Workers, Sandeep Vaheesan and Matthew Buck7. Protecting Competition on Behalf of the People: The Role of State Attorneys General in Challenging Noncompetes and Other Restraints on Employee Mobility, Lisa Madigan and Jane Flanagan8. Are Noncompetes Holding Down Wages? Evan Starr9. Fostering More-Competitive Labor Markets through Transparent Wages, Benjamin H. Harris10. Having Their Cake and Eating It Too: Antitrust Laws and the Fissured Workplace, David H. Seligman11. Forced Arbitration: A Losing Proposition for Workers, Terri Gerstein12. Federal Evidence-Based Competition Policy, Kate Tromble and Gregory Nantz13. Addressing Labor Market Competition at the State Level, Jed Herrmann and Gregory NantzContributorsIndex

“This volume offers ideas on how we can rewrite the rules of the economy to make the labor market more competitive and prevent the anticompetitive practices that employers have systematically used to increase their market power. This volume also provides a rich policy agenda for how to redress these imbalances—an essential component in protecting our democracy.”—Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate and professor, Columbia University