Please find below the articles that I enjoyed during the month of November 2019. Mostly antitrust-related, but not limited to it. Learn about them on a more regular basis by following me on Twitter at @LeConcurrential.
Antitrust:
- Populism, Fairness and Competition: Should We Care and What Could We Do? (Frédéric Jenny)
- Balancing Versus Structured Decision Procedures (Louis Kaplow)
- Blind[ing] Me With Science: Antitrust, Data, and Digital Markets (Makan Delrahim)
- How Much Brandeis Do the Neo-Brandeisians Want? (Daniel A. Crane)
- An Agenda for Competition Law and Policy in the Digital Economy (Pinar Akman)
- Algorithms and Competition (Bundeskartellamt & ADLC)
- The Limits of Australia’s Digital Platforms Inquiry (Dirk Auer)
- Relevance and Shortcomings of Behavioral Economics in Antitrust Deterrence (Godefroy de Moncuit)
- Integration and Monopoly (Ben Thompson)
- Technocrats, Populists, Hipsters, and Romantics – Who Else is Lurking in the Corners of the Bar (Anne Witt)
- BWB publishes position paper on debate about European champions and the call to relax EU merger control
- The growing nostalgia for past regulatory misadventures and the risk of repeating these mistakes with Big Tech (Christine S Wilson & Keith Klovers)
- Annual report on Competition policy European Parliament resolution of 19 April 2018
- Antitrust Law and Digital Markets: Who Has the Burden of Proof? (Ryan Johnston)
- First Principles for Antitrust Review of Long-Consummated Mergers (Timothy J. Muris & Jonathan E. Nuechterlein)
Artificial intelligence & blockchain:
- Anarchy, State, and Blockchain Utopia: Rule of Law versus Lex Cryptographia (Thibault Schrepel)
- Visualizing the New Cryptocurrency Ecosystem (Ashley Viens)
- Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later (Vitalik Buterin)
- Are Blockchains mutable? (Deepa Ramachandra)
- Antitrust Chronicle – Consumer Welfare… A Technocrat & A Populist Walk Into A Bar (CPI)
- Mapping the Most Important Ethereum Forks (Ashley Viens)
- Blockchain to Become the DNA of AI (Lance Ng)
- Cryptoassets and smart contracts valid in English law (Michael Cross)
- A Visual Timeline of AI Predictions in Sci-Fi (Iman Ghosh)
- Agoric and the Decades-Long Quest for Secure Smart Contracts (Bana Hatzey)
- Back to the Future: Waves of Legal Scholarship on Artificial Intelligence (Catalina Goanta & Gihs van Dijck)
- China launches blockchain-based identification system for smart cities (Yogita Khatri)
- The Biggest Nightmare in Blockchain Analytics (Jesus Rodriguez)
- Blockchain to ‘save food industry $31 billion (Anmar Frangoul)
Big Tech:
- #15 Why the Techlash? Antitrust Policy and Big Tech (Hal Varian)
- Right-Wing Populism, Social Media and Echo Chambers in Western Democracies (Shelley Boulianne, Karolina Koc-Michalska & Bruce Bimber)
- Does time spent using social media impact mental health?: An eight year longitudinal study (Sarah M. Coyne, Adam A. Rogers, Jessica D. Zurcher, Laura Stockdale & McCall Booth)
- Tech and Liberty (Ben Thompson)
- Creating a new federal agency to regulate Big Tech would be a disaster (Neil Chilson)
- How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results (Kirsten Grind, Sam Schechner, Robert McMillan & John West)
Econ:
- How Should We Measure the Digital Economy? (Erik Brynjolfsson & Avinash Collis)
- Alchemy (Rory Sutherland & Russ Roberts)
- Don’t Let The Great Reversal Mislead You (Edward Conard)
- Ranked: Which Economies Are the Most Competitive? (Iman Ghosh)
- Rule Makers, Rule Breakers (Michele Gelfand & Russ Roberts)
- Venture Capital Mega-Deals on Pace to Set New Record in 2019 (Jenna Ross)
- Privacy & Market Concentration: Intended & Unintended Consequences of the GDPR (Garrett Johnson & Scott Shriver)
- Four Theories of the Innovation Commons (Jason Potts)
- The competitive impacts of exclusivity and price transparency in markets with digital platforms (Paul Belleflamme & Martin Peitz)
- Why “Intellectual Property” is a Misnomer (Brink Lindsey & Daniel Takash)
Other:
- The Most Popular Wikipedia Pages, 2007-2019 (Iman Ghosh)
- The End of the Computer Age (Peter Thiel)
- Internet freedom is declining around the world—and social media is to blame (Charlotte Jee)
- Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (Maciej Ceglowski)
Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
