Biography

Interests

  • Price Theory
  • Information Economics
  • Competition and Innovation
  • Political Economy

Education

  • PhD in Economics, 2020

    University of Minnesota

  • MA in Economics, 2017

    University of Minnesota

  • MSc in Economics of Public Policy, 2014

    Barcelona Graduate School of Economics

  • BA in Physics and Political Science, 2012

    St. Olaf College

Publications

Brian C. Albrecht, Shruti Rajagopalan (2022). Inframarginal Externalities: COVID-19, Vaccines, and Collective Action. Public Choice.

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Omar Al-Ubaydli, Peter Boettke, Brian C. Albrecht (2022). Testing the Hayek Hypothesis: Recent Theoretical and Field Experimental Evidence. PLoS ONE.

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Brian C. Albrecht, Joshua R. Hendrickson, Alexander William Salter (2022). Evolution, Uncertainty, and the Asymptotic Efficiency of Policy. Public Choice.

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Jackson Mejia, Brian C. Albrecht (2022). On Price Stability with a Job Guarantee. Contemporary Economic Policy.

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Joshua R. Hendrickson, Alexander William Salter, Brian C. Albrecht (2018). Preventing plunder: Military technology, capital accumulation, and economic growth. Journal of Macroeconomics.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2017). Positive public economics: reinterpreting 'optimal' policies. Journal of Economic Methodology.

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Working Papers

Brian C. Albrecht, Mark Whitmeyer (2025). Efficient Learning under Competition. Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics.

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Brian C. Albrecht, Ryan A. Decker (2025). Markups and Business Dynamism across Industries. Revise & Resubmit, International Journal of Industrial Organization.

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Rafael R. Guthmann, Brian C. Albrecht (2025). Market Microstructure and Informational Complexity. Under Review.

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Brian C. Albrecht, Thomas Phelan, Nick Pretnar (2025). Time Use and the Efficiency of Heterogeneous Markups. Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Economic Theory.

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Mohammad Keyhani, Moren Lévesque, Brian C. Albrecht (2021). Bargaining with Opportunity Discovery (title redacted for entrepreneurship journal).

Brian C. Albrecht (2021). Investment without Coordination Failures.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2020). Price Competition and the Use of Consumer Data.

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Brian C. Albrecht, Brian Kogelmann (2020). Coasean Causal Inference: Using Models as Foils.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2017). Political Persuasion.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2016). Entrepreneurship as Coordination.

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Other Publications

Brian C. Albrecht, Dirk Auer, Geoffrey A. Manne (2024). Labor Monopsony and Antitrust Enforcement: A Distorting Mirror. DePaul Law Review, Forthcoming.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2024). Greed and corporate concentration do not cause inflation. The War on Prices: How Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad Policy.

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Brian C. Albrecht, Ryan A. Decker (2023). Rising Markups and Declining Business Dynamism: Evidence From the Industry Cross Section. FEDS Notes.

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Art Carden, Brian C. Albrecht (2023). The Under-Appreciated Thomas Sowell. The Independent Review.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2018). Exchange, Search Theory, and Buchanan's Foundations of Politics. Exploring the Political Economy and Social Philosophy of James M. Buchanan.

Brian C. Albrecht (2017). The Breakdown of Spontaneous Order: Smith and Hayek Diverge. New York University Journal of Law and Liberty.

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Popular Writing

Brian C. Albrecht (2025). Tariffs Didn't Drive America's Nineteenth-Century Growth. They Won't Today, Either. City Journal, April 8.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2025). Who's to Blame for High Egg Prices? Ask the Economists. Barron’s, March 11.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2025). DeepSeek Shows There’s No AI Monopoly. City Journal, February 10.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2024). The Catch-22 of Big Tech Antitrust. The Dispatch, December 5.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2024). How Trump should impose tariffs. Financial Times, November 26.

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Daniel J. Gilman, Brian C. Albrecht (2024). Ranking the Big Tech Monopolization Cases in the Wake of the Google Search Decision: Perspectives of Some Economists and Legal Scholars. Yale Journal on Regulation, September 19.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2024). Perilous Remedies. City Journal, August 29.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2024). When Protection Becomes Overreach. City Journal, May 13.

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Brian C. Albrecht, Jonathan W. Williams (2024). Net neutrality is an idea that should have stayed dead. Boston Globe, May 6.

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Brian C. Albrecht, Daniel J. Gilman (2024). Ranking the Big Tech Monopolization Cases: Some Economists’ Perspectives. Yale Journal on Regulation, April 9.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2023). Overzealous antitrust may prove anti-consumer. Star Tribune, July 27.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2023). Leave the Golf Leagues Alone. City Journal, June 15.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2023). The anti-growth CMA is threatening British tech’s success story. The Telegraph (UK), April 27.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2023). Separating Facts from Fear in Merger Enforcement. National Review Online, April 14.

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Brian C. Albrecht, Daniel Gilman (2023). FTC Proposal Jumps The Gun On Banning Noncompetes. Law360, January 19.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2022). The FTC’s Misguided Case Against Meta. The Dispatch, December 23.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2022). FTC Claims Sweeping Powers against 'Unfair' Competition. National Review Online, December 1.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2022). Business As Usual for Antitrust. City Journal, November 22.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2022). FTC Commissioner Pushing for Higher Prices. National Review Online, October 3.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2022). The FTC works up a sweat over virtual-reality fitness market. The Hill, August 5.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2022). Confusion Can Make for Good Politics, but Bad Economics. Inside Sources, July 20.

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Geoffrey Manne, Brian C. Albrecht (2022). A new bill for Big Tech, with the same flaws. Star Tribune, June 16.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2022). Antitrust Is Easy (When You Think You Know All the Answers). National Review Online, June 1.

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Brian C. Albrecht, Alexander Salter (2022). Lina Khan won't solve inflation. The Hill, February 14.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2022). The American Innovation and Choice Online Act Would Foster Neither Innovation Nor Choice. The Dispatch, February 2.

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Brian C. Albrecht, Joshua Hendrickson (2022). Corporate Greed Isn’t Driving Inflation. City Journal, January 28.

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Brian C. Albrecht, Sam Bowman (2021). A Big Tech crackdown could just make the Internet worse. The Boston Globe, November 5.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2021). Behavioral Economics Is Fine. Just Keep It Away from Our Kids. National Review Online, October 4.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2021). Antitrust Is Happily Dying Before Our Eyes, and Judges Are the Reason. Real Clear Markets, September 20.

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Brian C. Albrecht (2021). The FTC Is Driving Away Good Economists In Favor Of Political Henchmen. Tech Dirt, July 28.

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