Please find below the articles that I enjoyed during the month of November 2018. Mostly antitrust, but not limited to it.
General antitrust:
- Competition law should remain focused on consumer welfare (ACCC)
- Quality considerations in the zero-price economy (Note by the European Union)
- Common Ownership: Solutions in Search of a Problem (Keith Klovers & Douglas H. Ginsburg)
- Towards A Systematic Controlling of Antitrust Decisions? (Oliver Budzinski & Annika Stöhr)
- Maverick academics in antitrust? (Ioannis Lianos & Caron Beaton-Wells)
- Polycentric Competition Law (Ioannis Lianos)
Artificial intelligence & blockchain:
- Competition at the Dawn of Artificial Intelligence (Robin Feldman & Nick Thieme)
- Europe’s AI ethics chief: No rules yet, please (Janosch Delcker)
- Quantum computing, not AI, will define our future (William Hurley)
- Artificial Intelligence and Collusion: A Literature Overview (Steven Van Uytsel)
- Big Tech Sets Up a ‘Kill Zone’ for Industry Upstarts (Noah Smith)
- The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings (Jeffrey Bussgang & Ramana Nanda)
- Will Blockchain Revolutionize Scholarly Journal Publishing? (Alexander C. Kafka)
Big Tech:
- Google: Three Thoughts (Randy Picker)
- How Big Tech learned to love regulation (Mark Scott)
- Conceptualizing Big Tech as ‘Modern Bigness’ (Anna Gerbrandy)
- Inside the New Industrial Revolution (Christopher Mims)
- Acquisitions in the Third Party Tracking Industry (Reuben Binns & Elettra Bietti)
- What’s the Next Big Thing in Tech? It’s Up to Us (Christopher Mims)
- Exclusive poll: America sours on social media giants (Sara Fischer & Alison Snyder)
- Tech giants offer empty apologies because users can’t quit (Josh Constine)
- How the World’s Biggest Companies Have Changed in Just 10 Years (Jeff Desjardins)
- Here’s What the Big Tech Companies Know About You (Jeff Desjardins)
General:
- Women who shape Brussels (Ryan Heath & Eline Schaart)
- Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies (Susan Athey & Michael Luca)
- Lessons and Challenges in The Limits of Liberty (Pierre Lemieux)
- Against Privacy Fundamentalism in the United States (Alec Stapp)
- Three Moral Economies of Data (Nils Gilman & Henry Farrell)
- Microsoft’s market cap leaps over Apple’s, now the world’s most valuable company: Now official (Michael Allison)
- Regulators across the West are in need of a shake-up (The Economist)
- Thomas Sowell Returns (Thomas Winslow Hazlett)
Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)