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Please find below the articles that I enjoyed during the month of April 2020. Mostly antitrust-related, but not limited to it. Learn about them on a more regular basis by following me on Twitter at @LeConcurrential.
Antitrust:
- POWER: Trust and Distrust (Eleanor Fox)
- Libra: A Concentrate of “Blockchain Antitrust” (Thibault Schrepel)
- Antitrust Antitextualism (Daniel A. Crane)
- Competition Policy and the Covid-19 Opportunity (Jorge Padilla & Nicolas Petit)
- Submission to House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee Investigation of Digital Platforms (Spencer Waller)
- Relevance and shortcomings of behavioural economics in antitrust deterrence (Godefroy de Moncuit)
- Navigating the Platform Age: The ‘More Regulatory Approach’ to Antitrust Law in the EU and the U.S. (Cappai & Colangelo)
- Antitrust’s Curse of Bigness Problem (Daniel Sokol)
- On the possible ex ante regulation of online platforms (Pablo Ibáñez Colomo)
- 2019 Annual Highlights (FTC)
Blockchain & artificial intelligence:
- Blockchain Antitrust (Thibault Schrepel)
- Analyzing one decade of blockchain litigation (Thibault Schrepel)
- World Economic Forum Looks to Blockchain to Restart Global Economy (Samuel Haig)
- China Launches National Blockchain Network in 100 Cities (Nick Stockton)
- GitHub Is Burying Bitcoin Code Inside an Arctic Mountain to Ride Out the Next 1,000 Years (Alyssa Hertig)
- Blockchain Now Officially Part of China’s Technology Strategy (Paddy Baker)
- Facebook’s digital currency project just got a lot less audacious (Mike Orcutt)
- It Now Costs Over 140x More to Attack Bitcoin Than Bitcoin Cash (Nick Chong)
Big Tech:
- EU coordinated action to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences (European Parliament)
- The Covidien/Newport Merger: Killer Acquisition or Just a Killer Story? (Geoffrey Manne & Dirk Auer)
- Google is using AI to design chips that will accelerate AI (Karen Hao)
- A quick thread about anti-tech sentiment in the media (Noah Smith)
- Vertical Restraints in a Digital World (David S. Evans)
- Coronavirus Clarity (Ben Thompson)
- National governments are joining the ‘Big Tech’ club (Mark Scott)
Econ:
- Justice Without Romance (Alain Marciano, Melcarne & Ramello)
- Chart: The Evolution of Standard Oil (Jeff Desjardins)
- Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents (Autor, Dorn, Hanson, Pisano & Shu)
- The Risks of Radicalism: Exacerbating Harms from Type I Errors (Wong-Ervin, Laye-Farrar & Moore)
- Bureaucrats or Markets in Innovation Policy? (Nils Karlson, Christian Sandström & Karl Wennberg)
Other:
- It’s Time to Build (Marc Andreessen)
- The Man Who Thought Too Fast (Anthony Gottlieb)
- Innovation and the Trouble with the Precautionary Principle (Adam Thierer)
Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
