Please find below the articles that I enjoyed during the month of April 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:
- Podcasts for antitrust law fanatics (Thibault Schrepel)
- Online Advertising (CPI)
- No-Fault Digital Platform Monopolization (Marina Lao)
- What Democratic Contenders Are Missing in the Race to Revive Antitrust (John Newman)
- Commercial Divisions of Public Entities and the Limits of EU Competition Law (Jasper P. Sluijs)
- Competition Policy for the digital era (Jacques Crémer, Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye & Heike Schweitzer)
- Is European Competition Law Protectionist? Unpacking the Commission’s Unflattering Track Record (Dirk Auer)
Artificial intelligence & blockchain:
- On Collusion (Vitalik Buterin)
- Radical Thoughts? (Glen Weyl, Thibault Schrepe & Caron Beaton-Wells)
- Top YouTuber PewDiePie Joins Blockchain Live Streaming Platform (Yogita Khatri)
- Visualizing the AI Revolution in One Infographic (Jeff Desjardins)
- Venture capitalists are still throwing hundreds of millions at blockchains (Mike Orcutt)
- What Does Blockchain Mean for the Future of Art? We Asked an Expert (Sissi Cao)
- IMF and World Bank Launch Educational Blockchain Token (Yogita Khatri)
- West Virginia will allow “blockchain voting” in the 2020 election. That’s a risky idea. (Mike Orcutt)
- The Brave Browser Will Pay You To Surf the Web (Klint Finley)
Big Tech:
- Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2019
- Congress wants to protect you from biased algorithms, deepfakes, and other bad AI (Karen Hao)
- Want to regulate Big Tech? Sorry, Europe beat you to it (Mark Scott)
- How Much Data is Generated Each Day? (Jeff Desjardins)
- Most Americans Are Optimistic, Not Panicked, About Technological Advancements (Neil Chilson)
- Why Amazon Needs Others to Keep Selling (Dan Gallagher)
- The Ruins of Old Tech Monopolies (Walter Olson)
- A new bill would force companies to check their algorithms for bias (Adi Robertson)
- Sizing Up Twitter Users (Stefan Wojcik & Adam Hughes)
- Leave, Remain & Common Ground: Pragmatism in Dealing with Tech Giants (Philip Marsden)
- Platforms Wants Centralized Censorship. That Should Scare You (Emma Llansó)
Econ:
- Paul Romer on Growth, Cities, and the State of Economics (Paul Romer & Russ Roberts)
- Monopolistic Power Is Growing Around the World, IMF Says (Greg Ip)
- Digital Innovation: Seizing Policy Opportunities (OECD)
Other:
- “Please reject me: an Open Letter to the Harvard Law Review” (Mark Lemley)
- Publishing and Perishing – Does a new generation of social scientists have to publish more to achieve less? (Warren)
- Are we living in a computer simulation? I don’t know. Probably (Sean Illing)
- Research: When Companies Cozy Up to Politicians, the Economy Suffers (Akcigit, Baslandze & Lotti)
- Nicholas Christakis on the Evolutionary Origins of Ethics (Demetri Kofinas & Nicholas Christakis)
Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
