Please find below the articles that I enjoyed during the month of December 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:
- Repeal Continental Can (Thibault Schrepel)
- Competition Policy at a Crossroad (Jean Tirole)
- A Rap on Competition (Philip Marsden)
- Competition For-The-Market (OECD)
- A Framework for Regulating Competition on the Internet (Ben Thompson)
- The closest competitor is not the only competitor (Stephen Mohr)
- Competition Policy in a Globalized, Digitalized Economy (Pinar Akman)
- Big Ink vs. Bigger Tech (Ramsi Woodcock)
- Does Political Power Follow Economic Power? (Geoffrey Manne)
- “Politicization of Antitrust:” An Opportunity (Steven Cernak)
- The Commission’s Burden of Proof in Article 101(1) TFEU: Evidentiary Shortcuts Cut Short? (Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel)
- Artificial Intelligence and Competition Law (Moritz Hennemann)
- The Times’ Elastic Conception of Monopoly (Ramsi Woodcock)
- How can European competition law address market distortions caused by state-owned enterprises? (Mathew Heim)
- Indispensability and Abuse of Dominance (Pablo Ibáñez Colomo)
- 2019 Antitrust Advent Calendar (D’Kart)
- How Does Competition Affect Reputation Concerns? Theory and Evidence from Airbnb (Michelangelo Rossi)
- Government Response and Implementation Roadmap for the Digital Platforms Inquiry (Australian Government)
- Merger Control In Dynamic Markets – Summaries of contributions (OECD)
- Emerging Competition, Innovation, And Market Structure Issues Around Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, And Predictive Analytics (Nicolas Petit)
Blockchain & artificial intelligence:
- Twitter plans to build ‘decentralized standard’ for social networks (Katie Paul & Munsif Vengattil)
- Enterprise Blockchains 3.0: Third Time’s a Charm? (Ian Lee)
- Quadratic Payments: A Primer (Vitalik Buterin)
- How Decentralized Tech Can End the Privacy Crisis in 2020 (Tor Bair)
- He Gave a Cryptocurrency Talk in North Korea. The U.S. Arrested Him. (Jan Ransom)
- Do AI Entities Need Rights? (Eran Kahana)
- Secretary-General Says United Nations Must Embrace Blockchain (Michael del Castillo)
- A blockchain firm advised by Nobel laureate Myron Scholes just launched a rival to Facebook’s libra (Ryan Browne)
- MIT Computational Law Report
- 75% of IoT Firms Want to Add Blockchain: Survey (David Pan)
Big Tech:
- Why You Are Not Paying With Your Data (Thibault Schrepel)
- Understanding The Zero-Price Economy: We’re The Producers, Not The Consumers (John Newman)
- Most data doesn’t pre-exist (Thibault Schrepel
- What If Companies Get Big Because They’re Better? (Peter R. Orszag)
- Facebook is building an operating system so it can ditch Android (Josh Constine)
- Is It Time To Break Up Big Tech? (Toria Rainey)
- Sorry, but cryptocurrency will likely make you uncomfortable in 2020 (Mike Orcutt)
- Online platforms and digital advertising (CMA)
- Making Sense of the Google Android Decision (part 2): Ignoring Google’s Competitors (Dirk Auer)
- The biggest technology failures of 2019 (Antonio Regalado)
- Liability for Artificial Intelligence (European Commission)
- Google’s AI Chief Wants to Do More With Less (Data) (Tom Simonite)
- Twitter and Facebook Want to Shift Power to Users. Or Do They? (Nathaniel Popper)
Econ:
- Kittyconomics
- The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms (David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence F. Katz, Christina Patterson & John Van Reenen)
- Gerd Gigerenzer on Gut Feelings (Russ Roberts)
- The 2019 Stratechery Year in Review (Ben Thompson)
- Competing in the Age of AI (Marco Iansiti & Karim R. Lakhani)
Other:
- Blockchain and human rights: utopia, or dystopia, or both? (Thibault Schrepel)
- What was so great about the 2010s (Jeff Jacoby)
- This Has Been the Best Year Ever (Nicholas Kristof)
- A Political Economy of Utopia (Yochai Benkler)
- Newspapers’ Embarrassing Lobbying Campaign (Jack Shafer)
- Will Technology Kill Democracy—Or Reinvent It? (Brook Manville)
- Mission letter Urszula to Vestager: a comment (Ursula von der Leyen)
- Venkatesh Rao on Waldenponding (Russ Roberts)
- Elon Musk’s Neuralink plans its first brain chip implants for next year (Nick Lavars)
Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
