Hipster Antitrust – A Brief Fling Or Something More?

By Konstantin Medvedovsky

Hipster Antitrust is the latest of the challenges to the consumer welfare standard that has been dominant in the United States since the late 1970s and early 1980s. However, unlike prior attacks on the consumer welfare standard, it comes at a time when concerns about economic concentration and income equality are paramount. As result, the Hipster movement appears to have more staying power, and more backing than prior, largely academic questions raised about the consum