Please find below the articles that I enjoyed during the month of August 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:
- Symposium: Issues in Antitrust (Journal of Economic Perspectives)
- Fascism and Monopoly (Daniel A. Crane)
- Antitrust After Big Data (John M. Yun)
- Protecting Competition in the American Economy (Carl Shapiro)
- The Law Deficit in Merger Cases (Thomas Arthur)
- Does law and economics help decide cases? (Conor Clarke & Alex Kozinski)
- Amazon’s Problem Is Too Much Competition, Not Too Little (Ramsi Woodcock)
- Joshua Wright on the Antitrust Consensus and Its Discontents (Josh Wright & Brian Frye)
- Ten Things To Know About The ACCC’s Digital Platforms Inquiry (Caron Beaton-Wells)
- Victory for Facebook as Düsseldorf court suspends the Bundeskartellamt’s decision (Denis Schlimpert)
Artificial intelligence & blockchain:
- The future of the decentralized web (Berkman Klein Center)
- Blockchain and the General Data Protection Regulation (Michèle Finck)
- Bitcoin’s Surging Dominance – Is This Time Really Different? (Noelle Acheson)
- Who Is Winning the AI Race: China, the EU or the United States? (Castro, McLaughlin & Chivot)
- China’s path to AI domination has a problem: brain drain (Karen Hao)
- 5 Ways How Blockchain Will Change the Travel Industry (Mark van Rijmenam)
- Remedies for Robots (Lemley & Casey)
- IBM Files Patent for a Blockchain-Based Web Browser (William Foxley)
- Coinbase Study Says 56% of Top 50 Universities Have Crypto Classes (William Foxley)
- Judge finds Craig Wright committed perjury, must surrender half of his Bitcoin billions (Nicholas Marinoff)
Big Tech:
- Big Business (Tyler Cowen & Russ Roberts)
- Should We Break Up Big Tech? A Look Behind the (Political) Scenes (Thibault Schrepel)
- Privacy Fundamentalism (Ben Thompson)
- Data is Not the New Oil (Jeroen van Zeeland)
- Ranking the Top 100 Websites in the World (Nick Routley)
- Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods in the Digital Economy (Brynjolfsson, Collis, Diewert, Eggers & Fox)
Econ:
- Startup Success Outside Silicon Valley (David Frankel)
- Costs, Benefits and Regulation Post-Trump (Cass R. Sunstein)
- Endogenous attention to costs (Thunström & Ritten)
- How we failed to determine the value of the Internet (Erik Brynjolfsson)
- The L.A. Times’ disappointing digital numbers (Joshua Benton)
- Openness to Creative Destruction (Arthur Diamond & Russ Roberts)
Other:
- The transhumanists who want to live forever (Antonio Regalado)
- The World’s Top 50 Thinkers THREAD. Let’s go through the list. (TakingHayekSeriously)
- #LawTwittter Troll Response Form (LAWPROFBLAWG)
- What is geoengineering—and why should you care? (James Temple)
- Extended Readings on Copyright (Matthew Sag)
- What Would Happen If the Whole Internet Just Shut Down All of a Sudden? (Daniel Kolitz)
- Governing the Patent Commons (Dirk Auer & Julian Morris)
- The Past and Future of The Internet: A Symposium for John Perry Barlow (Duke)
- Why Are There So Many Weird Tech Patents? (Rose Eveleth)
Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
