Please find below the articles that I enjoyed during the month of March 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:
- Keep Politics Out of Europe’s Competition Decisions (Patrick Rey & Jean Tirole)
- The Warren Campaign’s Antitrust Proposals (Herbert Hovenkamp)
- Ohio v American Express (Geoffrey A Manne & Tim Wu)
- Innovation, IP & Competition Challenges (CPI)
- Tim Wu’s Bad History: Big Business And The Rise Of Fascism (Alec Stapp)
Artificial intelligence & blockchain:
- What in the world is blockchain? (Thibault Schrepel & Caron Beaton-Wells)
- Blockchain as the death of antitrust? (Thibault Schrepel & Caron Beaton-Wells)
- What the hell is a blockchain phone—and do I need one? (Mike Orcutt)
- Amy Webb on Artificial Intelligence, Humanity, and the Big Nine (Amy Webb & Russ Roberts)
- The New York Times Is Planning to Experiment With Blockchain Publishing (Anna Baydakova)
- What’s The Value Of A Facebook Cryptocoin? (Gregory Barber)
Big Tech:
- Unfair Disruption (Mark A. Lemley & Mark P. McKenna)
- Amazon is not essential (Kristian Stout & Geoffrey A. Manne)
- How the Tech Giants Make Their Billions (Jeff Desjardins)
- A eulogy for every product Google has ruthlessly killed (145 and counting) (Mark Wilson)
- A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking (Mark Zuckerberg)
- Technological Innovation and Economic Growth: A Brief Report on the Evidence (James Broughel and Adam Thierer)
- Facebook vs. Apple (Will Oremus)
- Amazon Private Label Brands (Juozas “Joe” Kaziukėnas)
- Elizabeth Warren wants to turn the internet into a literal sewer (service) (Manne & Stapp)
- Data Really Is the New Oil (Dan Gallagher)
- Unlocking digital competition (Report of the Digital Competition Expert Panel)
- Why a Big Tech Breakup Looks Better to Washington (David Streitfeld)
- Unicorns aren’t profitable, and Wall Street doesn’t care (Kate Clark)
Other:
- Is Email Making Professors Stupid? (Cal Newport)
- The Twitterization of the Academic Mind (Gordon Fraser)
- We Use Less Information to Make Decisions Than We Think (Ed O’Brien)
- A Culture of Favoritism (Mitchell, Eastman & Winter)
- What’s the most influential book of the past 20 years? (Chronicle)
- Coders’ Primal Urge To Kill Inefficiency—Everywhere (Clive Thompson)
- EU Puts An End To The Open Internet: Link Taxes And Filters Approved By Just 5 Votes (Mike Masnick)
Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
