Please find below the articles that I enjoyed during the month of January 2019. Mostly antitrust, but not limited to it.
General antitrust:
- Behavioral Antitrust (CPI)
- Geo-blocking of Audio-visual Services in the EU: Gone with the Wind? (Simonetta Vezzoso)
- Statement of Commissioner Christine S. Wilson In the Matter of Staples/Essendant (Christine S. Wilson)
- Harold Demsetz and the Legacy of the Chicago School (Richard Epstein)
- Transaction Costs and Competition Policy (Dennis W. Carlton)
- Recommendations: competition in markets involving data (Geoffrey Manne, Julian Morris, Kristian Stout & Dirk Auer)
Artificial intelligence & blockchain:
- Collusion By Blockchain And Smart Contracts (Thibault Schrepel)
- We Put The Entire Internet On The Blockchain—And You Can Too (Eric Griffith)
- Blockchain Can Wrest The Internet From Corporations’ Grasp (Chris Dixon)
- We analyzed 16,625 papers to figure out where AI is headed next (Karen Hao)
Big Tech:
- The Facts About Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg)
- Regulating the disrupters (Jean Tirole)
- The 20 Internet Giants That Rule the Web (Nick Routley)
- Google Fined $57 Million in Biggest Penalty Yet Under New European Law (Sam Schechner)
- Why Some Platforms Thrive and Others Don’t (Feng Zhu & Marco Iansiti)
- Apple’s Next Move: Be More Like Microsoft (Christopher Mims)
- The Jeff Bezos Empire in One Giant Chart (Jeff Desjardins)
- The FTC Thinks You Pay Too Much For Smartphones. Here’s Why (Klint Finley)
- Google’s Proposed Changes To Chrome Could Weaken Ad Blockers (Klint Finley)
- Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis (Liu, Brynjolfsson & Dowlatabadi)
- Merging WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram could kill Facebook (Matt Burgess & James Temperton)
Other:
- The End of Economics? (Fareed Zakaria)
- Has economics failed us? Hardly (Larry Summers)
- Innovation and Scientific Progress (Patrick Collison & Russ Roberts)
- Steven Pinker on the Past, Present, and Future of Optimism (Darryn King)
- How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind (Tristan Harris)
- Some thoughts on an academic career after tenure (Lawrence Solum)
Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
