Please find below the articles that I enjoyed during the month of May 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:
- Antitrust Without Romance (Thibault Schrepel)
- Beware The Unfair Use Of Behavioral Insights By Antitrust Agencies (A Story Of Google And The European Commission) (Thibault Schrepel)
- A Court’s Dangerous Antitrust Overreach (Christine Wilson)
- Twelve Fallacies of the ‘Neo-Antitrust’ Movement (Seth B. Sacher & John M. Yun)
- Is Amazon Guilty of Predatory Pricing? (Kristian Stout & Alec Stapp)
- Chicago and Its Discontents (Timothy J. Muris & Jonathan E. Nuechterlein)
- Antitrust Chronicle – Common Ownership Revisited (CPI)
- Protecting Competition in the American Economy: Merger Control, Tech Titans, Labor Markets (Carl Shapiro)
- Personalized Price Regulation as an Income Tax Alternative (Ramsi Woodcock)
- Legal tests in EU competition law: taxonomy and operation (Pablo Ibáñez Colomo)
Artificial intelligence & blockchain:
- OECD Principles on AI
- Don’t let industry write the rules for AI (Yochai Benkler)
- The Simplifications Decree with the definitions of blockchain and smart contract is now law (Marco Cavicchioli)
- Facebook Building Cryptocurrency-Based Payments System (Andriotis, Hoffman, Rudegeair & Horwitz)
- Millions of people might soon be using cryptocurrency without knowing it (Michael Reilly)
- Collusion Risk and Responsibility in Public Cryptocurrency Protocol Development (Peder Østbye)
Big Tech:
- The push to break up Big Tech, explained (Matthew Yglesias)
- Breaking Up Facebook Is Not the Answer (Nick Clegg)
- Twitter and Instagram Are Starting to Imagine a World Without ‘Likes’ (Alyssa Newcomb)
- Introducing auto-delete controls for your Location History and activity data (Google)
- The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program (Jason Del Rey)
- Amazon’s Size Is Becoming a Problem—for Amazon (Christopher Mims)
- Big Business Isn’t Big Politics (Tyler Cowen)
- Tech Giants Rethink the Businesses That Made Them Big (Jason Dean)
- Apple buys companies at the same rate you buy groceries (Sean Hollister)
- America may outsmart China in 5G with AI and blockchains (Will Knight)
- Humanitydao.org
- Five questions you can use to cut through AI hype (Karen Hao)
- You can now pay with cryptocurrency at Whole Foods (Mike Orcutt)
- Google Fights Back (Ben Thompson)
- Big Tech: Breaking Us Up Will Only Help China (Nitasha Tiku)
Econ:
- The Numbers Game: Do The Rich Get All The Gains? (video by PolicyEd)
- The radical plan to change how Harvard teaches economics (Dylan Matthews)
- Mastery, Specialization, and Range (Russ Roberts & David Epstein)
Other:
- Why We Should Stop Fetishizing Privacy (Heidi Messer)
- GDPR After One Year: Costs and Unintended Consequences (Alex Stapp)
- GDPR Turns 1! 8 Reasons GDPR is a Horrible Law
- The End of Cyberspace (Alexis C. Madrigal)
- Visualizing the Unicorn Landscape in 2019 (Jeff Desjardins)
- Who to Sue When a Robot Loses Your Fortune (Thomas Beardsworth & Nishant Kumar)
- In News Industry, a Stark Divide Between Haves and Have-Nots (Keach Hagey, Lukas I. Alpert and Yaryna Serkez)
- Being Certain (Russ Roberts & Robert Burton)
Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
