The Wall Street Journal quotes Executive Director John Mayo in a recent article about the FTC vs. Amazon

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“It’s really hard to square the circle of the earlier theory of harm that Lina Khan enunciated with the current complaint,” said John Mayo, an economist who leads Georgetown University’s Center for Business and Public Policy. “The earlier complaint was that prices were going to be too low and therefore anticompetitive. And now the theory is they are too high and they are anticompetitive.”

Read the full article: In Suing Amazon, FTC’s Lina Khan Turns Her Earlier Pricing Argument on Its Head; Antitrust lawsuit is a more streamlined complaint that leaves out some allegations from the FTC chair’s famous law-school paper