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Please find below the papers and articles that I enjoyed reading in September 2020. You can follow me on Twitter (@LeConcurrential) or LinkedIn (here) if you want to find out about similar articles on a more regular basis.
Antitrust:
- Antitrust law professors’ favorite articles (Thibault Schrepel – Concurrentialiste)
- Digital Markets and the Incipiency Attitude in EU Antitrust Law (Nicolas Petit – Concurrentialiste)
- What Shall We Do About Self-Preferencing? (Pedro Caro de Sousa)
- Analyzing Vertical Mergers (Blair, Wilson, Sokol, Klovers, Sandford)
- Forbidden Fruit (Ramsi Woodcock)
- Radical Restorative Remedies for Digital Markets (Michal Gal & Nicolas Petit)
- Is antitrust the next stakeholder capitalism battleground? (Noah Joshua Phillips – Fortune)
- The Formation of the United Launch Alliance and the Ascent of SpaceX (William E. Kovacic)
- The Competitive Effects of the GDPR (Michal S. Gal & Oshrit Aviv – Journal Competition Law & Economics)
- Polish energy deal signals a more political Vestager (Thibault Larger – Politico)
- FTC’s Bureau of Economics to Expand Merger Retrospective Program
- Digital platforms and the potential changes to competition law at the European level
- The growing nostalgia for past regulatory misadventures (Wilson & Klovers – Journal Antitrust Enforcement)
- Common Ownership and Minority Shareholding at the Intersection of Competition and Corporate Law (Anna Tzanaki)
- Analytical Shortcuts in EU Competition Enforcement (Andriani Kalintiri – Journal Competition Law & Economics)
- The System of EU Antitrust Enforcement is Misguided and Unfair (Miguel Sousa Ferro – JECLAP)
- Epic Games’ Antitrust Case Against Apple Is a Dead End (Alec Stapp – Agglomerations)
- Justice Department Issues Modernized Merger Remedies Manual
Blockchain & artificial intelligence:
- Justice Department And Vitalik Buterin Of Ethereum Share Vision Of Blockchain For Antitrust (Jason Brett – Forbes)
- A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human? (GPT-3 – The Guardian)
- US legislators introduce bill for in-depth study of blockchain in commerce (Marie Huillet – Coin Telegraph)
- Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on Markets in Crypto-assets (MiCA)
- Fintech Can Come Out of the Shadows (Brian P. Brooks & Charles W. Calomiris – WSJ)
- Coordination, Good and Bad (Vitalik Buterin)
Big Tech:
- Apple, Google, and Amazon respond to European tech taxes by passing on costs (James Vincent – The Verge)
- Unlimited Information Is Transforming Society (Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway – Scientific American)
- Comments on “The Social Dilemma” (Thibault Schrepel)
- 2020 Bundles (Ben Thompson – Stratechery)
- Gangster capitalism and the American theft of Chinese innovation (Danny Crichton – TechCrunch)
- Why every website wants you to accept its cookies (Emily Stewart – Vox)
- Is data nonrivalrous? (Will Reinhart)
- The Court interprets, for the first time, the EU regulation enshrining ‘internet neutrality’ (C-807/18 and C-39/19)
- Visualizing the Social Media Universe in 2020 (Aran Ali – Visual Capitalist)
Econ:
- Geographic Diversity in Economic Publishing (Angus, Atalay, Newton & Ubilava)
- Untangling innovation from industrial policy (Caleb Watney – Agglomerations)
- Milton Friedman and Free to Choose (Robert Chitester & Russ Roberts)
- Racism, Patents, and Black Entrepreneurship (Lisa Cook & Russ Roberts – EconTalk)
- The rule of law and its impact on economic growth (European Economic and Social Committee)
Other:
- Steven Pinker & Steven Levitt (People I Mostly Admire)
- How To Speak by Patrick Winston (MIT – YouTube)
- Brian L. Frye offering all his articles authorship
- The Generative Age (Arram Sabeti)
- Evaluating the fake news problem (Allen, Howlan, Mobius, Rothschild & Watts – Social Advances)
- The Making of a Harvard Department Chair (James S. Bikales & Kevin R. Chen – The Crimson)
- Why travel should be considered an essential human activity (Eric Weiner – National Geographic)
I also read (and enjoyed) these books:
- W. Brian Arthur, Complexity and the Economy (Oxford, 2014) (phenomenal book)
- Brad Smith & Carol Ann Browne, Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age (Penguin, 2019)
Dr. Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
