Monopoly Politics: Competition and Learning in the Evolution of Policy Regimes

Please join us for a book talk with Erik Peinert, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston University. Peinert's research focuses on the political economy of advanced industrial states and the politics of economic policymaking, particularly in the domain of competition and market power.  His August 2025 book, Monopoly Politics: Price Competition, Learning, and the Evolution of Policy Regimes (Oxford University Press), seeks to understand why many industrialized countries have alternated in the long run between national policy regimes in favor of enforcing price competition on one hand, and supporting market power and domestic monopolies on the other.

Peter Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies at Harvard University, will serve as discussant.