Please find below the articles that I enjoyed during the month of October 2019. Mostly antitrust-related, but not limited to it. Learn about them on a more regular basis by following me on Twitter at @LeConcurrential.
Antitrust:
- Retooling Antitrust Law For Digital Markets (Thibault Schrepel)
- Promoting Sound Policies for the Next Decade (Christine S. Wilson)
- “Attention markets” and their consequences for antitrust policy (Dirk Auer)
- Philip Marsden at EU Data Summit (Philip Marsden)
- Briefly 2.1 – Amazon and Antitrust (Geoffrey Manne & Lina Khan)
- Antitrust and the Debate Over Data Privacy (Jennifer Huddleston)
- ‘Populist mobs’ vs. the Kochs: Tech probes split the GOP (Steven Overly)
Artificial intelligence & blockchain:
- Libra: Articles of Association
- Zuckerberg: Don’t worry, we expected policymakers to resist Libra (Mike Orcutt)
- The State of Privacy on Ethereum (ConsenSys)
- Is Intellectual Property ready for Blockchain? (Mirjana Stankovic)
- The Ties That Bind Facebook’s Libra (Elise Thomas)
- Facebook Warns Washington That Beijing Wins If Libra Plan Fails (Benjamin Bain & Kurt Wagner)
- If Libra fails, China wins (Jen Wieczner & David Z. Morris)
- Central Banks Don’t Need Their Own Digital Currencies (Tyler Cowen)
- IKEA in ‘World First’ Transaction Using Smart Contracts and Licensed E-Money (Daniel Palmer)
- UNICEF Launches Cryptocurrency Fund to Back Open Source Technology (Wolfie Zhao)
- Who is Liable for an Attack on Cryptocurrency Consensus? (Peder Østbye)
- Blockchains In Real Life: an Overview of the Global Regulatory Climate (Carlotta Bertolino)
- Blockchain Could Provide ID for Those Who Need It Most (Benjamin Powers)
- Autonomous Distributed Networks: The unfulfilled libertarian dream (Alessandra Albano)
Big Tech:
- Are regulatory attacks on Big Tech politically motivated? (Mark Jamison)
- The Rise and Fall of Social Media Platforms (Nick Routley)
- All hands on deck (Casey Newton)
- Can you make AI fairer than a judge? Play our courtroom algorithm game (Karen Hao & Jonathan Stray)
- Zuckerberg misunderstands the huge threat of TikTok (Josh Constine)
- On TikTok, There Is No Time (Louise Matsakis)
- Google and Ambient Computing (Ben Thompson)
- Google And Facebook Didn’t Kill Newspapers: The Internet Did (Alec Stapp)
- Libra is ‘inevitable,’ better to embrace it, says its investor, a French billionaire (Yogita Khatri)
- Deceptive Products on Platforms (Johannes Johnen & Robert Somogyi)
- ‘Big Bad Trusts’ Are a Progressive Myth (Phil Gramm & Jerry Ellig)
Econ:
- The Nobel Prize in Economic Science Goes to Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer (Alex Tabarrok)
- Why Data Is Not the New Oil (Alec Stapp)
- Experimental Innovation Policy (Albert Bravo-Biosca)
- How Should We Measure the Digital Economy? (Erik Brynjolfsson & Avinash Collis)
- Morality versus Money: Hayek’s Move to the University of Chicago (David Mitch)
- Patent Buyouts: A Mechanism for Encouraging Innovation (Michael Kramer)
- Too Much Data: Prices and Inefficiencies in Data Markets (Acemoglu, Makhdoumi, Malekian & Ozdaglar)
- The World’s 20 Most Profitable Companies (Jeff Desjardins)
- Should Consumers Be Able to Sell Their Own Personal Data? (Christopher Tonetti & Cameron F. Kerry)
Other:
- Tenure announcement: April 2019 (James Mickens)
- Plagiarize This Paper (Brian L. Frye)
- The Internet and the Third Estate (Ben Thompson)
- Without encryption, we will lose all privacy. This is our new battleground (Edward Snowden)
- If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance. (Emerging Technology)
- More from Less (Andrew McAfee & Russ Robert)
Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
