Please find below the articles that I enjoyed during the month of June 2019. Mostly antitrust-related, but not limited to it. Learn about them on a more regular basis by following me on Twitter at @LeConcurrential.
General antitrust:
- Remembering Regulatory Misadventures (Christine S. Wilson)
- Economic Analysis of Network Effects and Intellectual Property (Peter S. Menell)
- FTC v. Qualcomm, Antitrust, and Intellectual Property (Erik Hovenkamp)
- Apple v. Pepper: Rationalizing Antitrust’s Indirect Purchaser Rule (Herbert J. Hovenkamp)
- Antitrust Populism: Towards a Taxonomy (Aurelien Portuese)
- The European Court of Justice and the More Economic Approach to EU Competition Law—Is the Tide Turning? (Anne C. Witt)
Artificial intelligence & blockchain:
- Libra, White Paper
- Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game (Ben Thompson)
- Facebook’s Libra: Three things we don’t know about the digital currency (Mike Orcutt)
- The radical idea hiding inside Facebook’s digital currency proposal (Mike Orcutt)
- Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency: How It Stacks Up to Bitcoin and PayPal (Kurt Wilberding)
- Principled Artificial Intelligence (Harvard)
- Artificial Stupidity (Clark D. Asay)
- Perfect Online Privacy (Mike Orcutt)
- A New “Law” Suggests Quantum Supremacy Could Happen This Year (Kevin Hartnett)
- Google is quietly studying blockchain (Adriana Hamacher)
- Blockchain for digital government (David Allessie, Maciej Sobolewski & Lorenzino Vaccari)
- Facebook Plans Outside Foundation to Govern Cryptocurrency (Alex Heath & Jon Victor)
- Technological Populism and Its Archetypes: Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies (Asress Adimi Gikay & Catalin Gabriel Stanescu)
- A Monumental Fight Over Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Is Coming (Michael J Casey)
Big Tech:
- Big Tech And Antitrust (Jacob Goldstein)
- The Libertarian: Break Up Big Tech? (Richard A. Epstein)
- Tech and Antitrust (Ben Thompson)
- Breaking up Big Tech will be really hard to do—here’s why (Martin Giles)
- The First Post-iPhone Keynote (Ben Thompson)
- Facebook usage falling after privacy scandals, data suggests (Alex Hern)
- A stablecoin report beyond the hype (Blockdata)
- Stanford Team Aims at Alexa and Siri With a Privacy-Minded Alternative (John Markoff)
- How to regulate Big Tech without breaking it up (Angela Chen)
- Unlocking digital competition (Philip Marsden & Caron Beaton-Wells)
Econ:
- Are Markets Becoming Less Competitive? (Tim Sablik & Nicholas Trachter)
- James Buchanan on the Nature of Choice: Ontology, Artifactual man, and the Constitutional Moment in Political Economy (Paul A. Lewis & Malte Behal-Dold)
- GDPR Has Been a Boon for Google and Facebook (Nick Kostov & Sam Schechner)
Other:
- Retreat of the Scholars (Richard A. Greenwald)
- 2019 entry-level hiring report, the results
- Bill Joy Finds The Jesus Battery (Steven Levy)
- Do the best academics fly more? (LSE)
- We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster. (Kevin Litman-Navarro)
- Everything You’ve Read About Harvard’s Winklevoss Twins Is Wrong (Ben Mezrich)
Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)