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Please find below the papers and articles that I enjoyed reading in July 2020. Surprisingly good for the summer period. You can follow me on Twitter at @ProfSchrepel if you want to find out about similar articles on a more regular basis.
Antitrust:
- Google, Facebook, and Amazon are no platforms (Thibault Schrepel)
- Market adjustments, Competition Law and the Covid-19 Pandemic (Frédéric Jenny)
- Is it an abuse for Apple to embed a camera in its iPhones? (Pablo Ibanez Colomo)
- Break up Denny’s (John Harkrider)
- Antitrust and Platform Monopoly (Herbert Hovenkamp)
- Video: Judge Ian Forrester & Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg
- Correcting Common Misperceptions (Geoffrey A. Manne)
- Antitrust: What Counts as Consumer Welfare? (Herbert Hovenkamp)
- Openness and Integrity in Antitrust (Stavros Makris)
- Attention Intermediaries: Regulatory Options and their Institutional Implications (Giorgio Monti)
- CPI – Roundtable 2 (Picker, Wright, Baker, Fox, Crane, Wong-Ervin, Soven, Akman & Newman)
Blockchain & artificial intelligence:
- Why Ethereum isn’t monopoly money—or for monopolies (Jeff Benson)
- Video: Blockchain Code as Antitrust (Vitalik Buterin & Thibault Schrepel)
- A dialogue between Darwin and a blockchain (Thibault Schrepel)
- Online Gaming, Blockchain, and Forte (Josh Williams & Russ Roberts)
- OpenAI’s GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since bitcoin (??!!)
- OpenAI Technology (have a look at all the demos!)
- Crypto communities as legal orders (Catalina Goanta & Marieke Hopman)
- Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy – Vol. 3, No. 2
- Alibaba leads blockchain patent race (Forkast)
- The Robots Are Coming (Roland Vogl)
- The Robots Are Coming (Mark Lemley)
- How a Bitcoin dev hub is building a future for free software (Colin Harper)
- A plan to redesign the internet could make apps that no one controls (Will Douglas Heaven)
- Chinese courts use blockchain-based electronic seals to secure properties (Yogita Khatri)
- OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good—and completely mindless (Will Douglas Heaven)
- The amount of value locked in DeFi just hit $4 billion (Mathew Di Salvo)
- So Much for the Decentralized Internet (Ian Bogost)
- Bank of Japan explores prospects of a digital Yen (Liam Frost)
- Cryptocurrency Regulations Around The World (Comply Advantage)
Big Tech:
- Regulating technology (Benedict Evans)
- How Big Tech Makes Their Billions (Omri Wallach)
- On the Origin of Platforms: An Evolutionary Perspective (Dirk Auer)
- The Techlash Is A Myth (Alec Stapp)
- Attention Intermediaries: Regulatory Options and their Institutional Implications (Giorgio Monti)
- Star Critic of Big Tech Has Side Gig Working for Amazon, Apple (David McLaughlin)
- Platforms, Ecosystems, and Aggregators (Ben Thompson & Patrick O’Shaughnessy)
Econ:
- 10 Types of Innovation: The Art of Discovering a Breakthrough Product (Jeff Desjardins)
- Ronald H. Coase: Chicago School or Virginia School Economist? (Rosolino Candela)
- Economists Top 100 (2020)
- Statement by Jeff Bezos to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
- Sectoral Digital Intensity and GDP Growth After a Large Employment Shock (Gallipoli & Makridis)
- America’s Innovation Engine Is Slowing (Caleb Watney)
- The UK has badly missed the mark on how to regulate Big Tech (Sam Bowman)
- Amazon, Antitrust, and Private Label Goods (Alec Stapp)
- Price Competition and the Use of Consumer (Brian C. Albrecht)
Official publications (not that I “enjoyed” all of them):
- DG Comp annual report
- Department of Justice And Federal Trade Commission Issue New Vertical Merger Guidelines
- General Court, Infineon vs. European Commission (Case T‑758/14)
- General Court, Apple vs. European Commission (T-778/16)
Other:
- Window Swap
- Margrethe Vestager: the star commissioner brought down to earth (Fleming, Brunsden & Espinoza)
- A Letter on Justice and Open Debate
- Should We Cancel Aristotle? (Agnes Callard)
- How Harvard’s Star Computer-Science Professor Built a Distance-Learning Empire (Eren Orbey)
- Hundreds of universities will shutter (Scott Galloway)
- As the Revolving Door Swings (Hal Singer)
Dr. Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
