Please find below the articles that I enjoyed during the month of July 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:
- “Antitrust Without Romance” in videos (Thibault Schrepel)
- Common Understanding of G7 Competition Authorities on “Competition and the Digital Economy” (G7)
- FRAND and Antitrust (Herbert Hovenkamp)
- Attention and the Law (John M. Newman)
- Post-Cartesian Antitrust (Justin Hurwitz)
- Are ‘FANGs’ Monopolies? A Theory of Competition under Uncertainty (Nicolas Petit)
- Mapping the Major Bitcoin Forks (Ashley Viens)
- The News About Antitrust’s Impending Resurgence Has Been Greatly Exaggerated (Chris Sagers)
Artificial intelligence & blockchain:
- Blockchain antitrust old wine, new bottles? (Thibault Schrepel & Caron Beaton-Wells)
- Three reflections on decentralization (Juan Ortiz Freuler)
- The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking (Jonathan Zittrain)
- The Wired Guide to the Blockchain (Klint Finley & Gregory Barber)
- The New York Times thinks a blockchain could help stamp out fake news (Mike Orcutt)
- ‘Mirror Worlds’ Creator Wants To Displace Facebook—With Blockchain (Gregory Barber)
- AI analyzed 3.3 million scientific abstracts and discovered possible new materials (Karen Hao)
- Libra, 2 weeks in (David Marcus)
- Understanding AI Collusion and Compliance (Justin Johnson & D. Daniel Sokol)
- What AI-Driven Decision Making Looks Like (Eric Colson)
- The plan to mine the world’s research papers (Priyanka Pulla)
- Explainer: What is post-quantum cryptography? (Martin Giles)
- 90+ Ethereum Apps You Can Use Right Now (ConsenSys)
Big Tech:
- Digital Dystopia (Jean Tirole)
- Congress Targets the Wrong Tech Monopolies (Dan Wang)
- Who’s to Blame for Bad Things on the Internet? (Mark A. Lemley)
- Don’t Count on Government to Protect Your Privacy (Kevin McCarthy)
- Tech prophecy and the underappreciated casual power of ideas (Steven Pinker)
- When Writers are a Special Interest: The Press and the Movement to Break Up Big Tech (Ramsi Woodcock)
- Facebook, Inc., In the Matter of (FTC)
- Bundeskartellamt’s Facebook Decision in English
- Facebook Settlement Vindicates Consumer Privacy (Noah J. Pillips)
Econ:
- In praise of surveillance capitalism (James Pethokoukis)
- Surveillance Capitalism (Russ Roberts & Shoshana Zuboff)
- Historically Hollow: The Cries of Populism (Bryan Caplan)
- Shopify and the Power of Platforms (Ben Thompson)
- Facebook is actually worth more thanks to news of the FTC’s $5 billion fine (Charlotte Jee)
Other:
- Here’s how young female academics should dress (Hannah McCann)
- Time to flip your presentation format (Pat Thomson)
- University of California’s showdown with the biggest academic publisher aims to change scholarly publishing for good (MacKenzie Smith)
- How Much Is Data Privacy Worth? A Preliminary Investigation (Angela G. Winegar & Cass Sunstein)
Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
