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Please find below the papers and articles that I enjoyed reading in June 2020. Learn about them on a more regular basis by following me on Twitter at @LeConcurrential.
Antitrust:
- Uncertain Harms: The Case of Nascent Competitors (Scott Hemphill)
- Blockchain Code Can Fill In When Antitrust Law Fails (Thibault Schrepel)
- Fascism and Monopoly (Daniel A. Crane)
- A brief history of Article 102 TFEU (Thibault Schrepel)
- The EU Goes Fishing for an Antitrust Case Against Apple — But There’s One Problem (Alec Stapp)
- Carl Shapiro and Josh Wright Debate Antitrust and Competition Policy
- How Should Apple Make Money? (Randy Picker)
Blockchain & artificial intelligence:
- What Is Ethereum 2.0? (Everett Muzzy)
- Why Big Pharma Is Betting on Blockchain (Alison McCauley)
- How to Make Advanced Smart Contracts Possible on Bitcoin (Kyle Torpey)
- Federal Reserve Endorses Ethereum-Backed Alternative To Libor (Jason Brett)
- Unstoppable Domains Launches Censorship-Resistant Blogging Platform (William Foxley)
- Cryptocurrency World Map (Holger Rohm)
- From Athens to the Blockchain: Oracles for Digital Democracy (Poblet, Allen, Konashevych, Lane & Valdivia)
- Coinbase CEO: Bitcoin to “deliver control back to users” (Tim Copeland)
- Report: New Amazon blockchain solution targets product authenticity (Dan Berthiaume)
- How crypto can help make Andrew Yang’s ‘data dividend’ a reality (Jaime Chacon)
- The Escobars Believe They’ve Found the Real Satoshi (Greg Thomson)
- How Blockchain Is Changing the Advertising Industry (Frank Edwood)
- This Political Conversation With Vitalik Buterin Shows How Ethereum Could Change the World (Leigh Cuen)
- New York Times publishes details about its blockchain prototype project (Michael McSweeney)
Big Tech:
- Never-ending Niches (Ben Thompson)
- The App Store Debate: A Story of Ecosystems (Steven Sinofsky)
- Future of Work and Employee Empowerment (Makridis & Han)
- Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45 (Azoulay, Jones, Kim & Miranda)
Econ:
- Top 100 Economics Blogs of 2020 (Prateek Agarwal)
- The Gospel According to Peter Thiel (Isabella Burton)
- Williamson’s Advice to Ph.D. Students (John de Figueiredo)
- Reimagining Capitalism (Rebecca Henderson & Russ Roberts)
- Memory, Attention, and Choice (Bordalo, Gennaioli & Shleifer)
- Neuroeconomics and Shopping: Don’t Ask the Person, Ask the Brain (Colin Camerer)
Official publications (new section, not that I “enjoyed” all of them):
- Commission v Dôvera zdravotná poistʼovňa (ECJ, C‑262/18 P & C‑271/18 P)
- Digital Services Act package – ex ante regulatory instrument of very large online platforms acting as gatekeepers (EC)
- Single Market – new complementary tool to strengthen competition enforcement (EC)
- White paper on levelling the playing field as regards foreign subsidies (EC)
- Competition: Commission consults stakeholders on the Market Definition Notice (EC)
- Opinion of Advocate General Kokott delivered on 4 June 2020 (Case C‑591/16 P, Lundbeck)
- Opinion of Advocate General Pitruzzella delivered on 4 June 2020 (Case C‑823/18 P, GEA Group)
- UK Supreme Court: Mastercard and Visa have infringed competition law
Other:
- Peer Review (Rodney Brooks)
- Human Nature (Steven Pinker & Rutger Bregman)
- Philosophy, Progress, and Wisdom (Agnes Callard & Russ Roberts)
- MIT, guided by open access principles, ends Elsevier negotiations
- Can U.S. Universities Make a Comeback? A Debate (Tyler Cowen & Noah Smith)
- Worldviews Are Pessimistic Because They Are Outdated (Joakim Book)
- Annotated Bibliography of Covid-19 Legal Literature (Melbourne Law School)
Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
