Please find below the articles that I enjoyed during the month of February 2019. Mostly antitrust-related, but not limited to it.
General antitrust:
- Private Enforcement (CPI)
- Europe Needs Competition More Than Industrial Giants (Bloomberg Editorial Board)
- Mergers: Commission prohibits Siemens’ proposed acquisition of Alstom (European Commission)
- This is not a post on Siemens/Alstom – Congratulations to DG Comp (and brace for what’s coming) (Alfonso Lamadrid)
- Ag Nominee William Barr Is No Friend Of Telecom Competition (Susan Crawford)
Artificial intelligence & blockchain:
- We must protect our ability to transact privately online (Jerry Brito)
- Facebook Beefs Up Its Blockchain Efforts With Startup Hires (Zack Seward)
- Facebook seems interested in speeding up blockchain smart contracts—but why? (Mike Orcutt)
- Encryption, ‘information fiduciaries’ and targeted advertisements (Zittrain and Zuckerberg)
Big Tech:
- Has Facebook been good for the world? (Vox)
- Apple, The iPhone, And The Innovator’s Dilemma (Molly Wood)
- Surveillance Capitalism in the Age of the Unprecedented (Shoshana Zuboff & Demetri Kofinas)
- Amazon’s Next Targets Are Now Clear: Google and Facebook (Conor Sen)
- AR Will Spark The Next Big Tech Platform—Call It Mirrorworld (Kevin Kelly)
- Germany’s Facebook Order Will Be Studied by EU, Vestager Says (Aoife White & Lenka Ponikelska)
- Why Tech Companies Hire So Many Economists (Susan Athey & Michael Luca)
- The Wired Guide To Your Personal Data (And Who Is Using It) (Louise Matsakis)
- Facebook’s Battle in Germany Is a Thorn in WhatsApp Integration (Aoife White, Stephanie Bodoni & Stefan Nicola)
- ‘Right’ Regulation for Facebook? (Caron Beaton-Wells & Sam Knox)
- Doing double damage: The German competition authority’s Facebook decision manages to undermine both antitrust and data protection law (Geoffrey Manne)
Other:
- Elinor Ostrom: Women in Economics (Marginal Revolution University)
- Crony Capitalism (Michael Munger & Russ Roberts)
- Can Big Science Be Too Big? (Benedict Carey)
- The Decline of Historical Thinking (Eric Alterman)
- Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology (Lingfei Wu, Dashun Wang & James A. Evans)
- Purely evidence-based policy doesn’t exist (Lars Peter Hansen)
- The gig economy, minimum wages, and unemployment (Scott Sumner)
- When EU governments are a channel for corporate interests (Corporate Europe Observatory)
- Google’s response to Vitalik asking about the “₿” keyboard icon
- Top 15 Best Global Brands Ranking (2000-2018)
- The Most Important Law Review Article You’ll Never Read
Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
