Please find below the articles that I enjoyed during the month of December 2018. Mostly antitrust, but not limited to it.
General antitrust:
- Reinvigorating Criminal Antitrust? (Daniel Sokol)
- The Omega Man or The Isolation of U.S. Antitrust Law (Spencer Weber Waller)
- ‘The Curse of Bigness’ Review: Revisiting the Gilded Age (Richard A. Epstein)
- All contributions to the European Commission “Shaping Competition Policy in the Era of Digitisation”
- The Interface of Competition and Intellectual Property Law (Pedro Caro de Sousa)
Artificial intelligence & blockchain:
- The Genius Neuroscientist Who Might Hold The Key To True AI (Shaun Raviv)
- Feds like cryptocurrencies and blockchain tech, and so should antitrust agencies (Thibault Schrepel)
- A brief tweetstorm on non-financial applications of blockchains (Vitalik Buterin)
- The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (Timothy C. May, who just recently passed away)
- The Business Value of the Blockchain (Jenny Scribani)
- Bitcoin Wasn’t a Bubble Until It Was (Spencer Jakab)
- Draft Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI (European Commission)
- Google’s Algorithm Isn’t Biased, It’s Just Not Human (Noam Cohen)
- Ethereum thinks it can change the world. It’s running out of time to prove it. (Mike Orcutt)
Big Tech:
- The Moat Map (Stratechery)
- Action brought on 9 October 2018 — Google and Alphabet/Commission (European Commission)
- Google Android Antitrust: Dominance Pivots And A Business Model Clash In Brussels (Randal Picker)
- American tech giants are fiercely competitive monopolies (Nicolas Petit)
- So who did the monopolists donate to in 2016? (Alec Stapp)
General:
- Our pick of the decade’s eight best young economists (The Economist)
- Moral Reality And Moral Progress (Thomas Nagel)
- MIT has just announced a $1 billion plan to create a new college for AI (Will Knight)
- Peter Berkowitz on Locke, Liberty, and Liberalism (with Russ Roberts)
- Mariana Mazzucato on the Value of Everything (with Russ Roberts)
- The Most-Read Wired Business Stories Of 2018 (Andrea Valdez)
Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
