Please find below the articles that I enjoyed during the month of September 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:
- A conversation about antitrust law with Nobel-price laureate Vernon L. Smith (Thibault Schrepel)
- It’s about Price, not Competition (Ramsi Woodcock)
- Innovation & IP (CPI)
- Deterring Bad Behavior on Digital Platforms (David S. Evans)
- Comparative Competition Law
- OECD International Cartel Database (OECD)
- A Modest Proposal for Antitrust Enforcement (Stephen Houck)
- Facebook and the Bundeskartellamt’s Winter of Discontent (Giuseppe Colangelo)
- MFN Clauses, Loyalty Programs & Fidelity Rebates (CPI)
- Progressive Antitrust Paradox (WSJ, Editorial Board)
- A Cruel Parody of Antitrust Enforcement (NY Times Editorial Board)
Artificial intelligence & blockchain:
- Bitcoin Rap Battle Debate: Hamilton vs. Satoshi
- Bitcoin to Get Smart Contracts (Trustnodes.com)
- Vitalik Buterin on effective altruism (Robert Wiblin and Keiran Harris)
- China is about to launch its own digital currency: here’s what we know so far. (Mike Orcutt)
- Will We Realize Blockchain’s Promise of Decentralization? (Hanna Halaburda & Christoph Mueller-Bloch)
- How Blockchain Could Contribute to Ending Poverty in All Its Forms (Mark van Rijmenam)
- Forget erasure: why blockchain is really incompatible with the GDPR (Elizabeth M. Renieris)
- IBM Says It’s Ready to Work with Facebook on Blockchain (David Pan)
- Germany on chain: National Blockchain Strategy Released (Philipp Sandner)
- Blockchain: a key tool in the fight against climate change (Freya Stevens)
- AI 50: America’s Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Companies (Jillian D’Onfro)
- Trusted Third Parties are Security Holes (Nick Szabo)
Big Tech:
- The Political Attack on Big Tech (Kevin O’Connor)
- U.S. Antitrust Enforcers Signal Discord Over Probes of Big Tech (John D. McKinnon & Brent Kendall)
- Break up Facebook? That would just create more bad (and fake) news (Carl Shapiro)
- Vestager loses Starbucks tax case, wins Fiat (Simon Van Dorpe)
- Apple tweaks its App Store algorithm as antitrust investigations loom (Sarah Perez)
Econ:
- Am I A Market Fundamentalist? (Russ Roberts)
- The Numbers Game: Let’s Party Like It’s 1973! (Russ Roberts)
- Very real progress on the market concentration debate (Tyler Cowen)
- You can never overcome network effects: the truth behind the myth. (Paul Belleflamme)
Other:
- Student law reviews superiority to peer-reviewed journals (Jeff Kosseff)
- Honest Academic Job Postings (Ryen Weber)
- The Law Prof Twittersphere 2019 (Ryan Whalen)
- A list of open access textbooks (Brian L. Frye)
- On Joi and MIT (Lawrence Lessig)
- Top 6 Data Analytics Tools in 2019 (Lewis Chou)
- Measuring actual learning (Deslauriers, McCarty, Miller, Callaghan & Kestin)
- Judge Posner Gets A New Job (Joe Patrice)
- A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked (Bahar Gholipour)
Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
