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This post features my latest reading suggestions based on the academic papers and press articles that I enjoyed reading in February 2021. As I tend to favor the active sharing of open-source publications, you can follow me on Twitter (@LeConcurrential) or LinkedIn (here) to access similar articles on a more regular basis.
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Antitrust:
- Acquisitions of Nascent Competitors under Section 2 of the Sherman Act (A. Douglas Melamed – Concurrentialiste)
- Platforms or Aggregators: Implications for Digital Antitrust Law (Thibault Schrepel – JECLAP)
- Stanford Computational Antitrust
- Computational Antitrust (Thibault Schrepel – AI Now) 🎥
- Understanding the House Judiciary Committee Majority Staff Antitrust Report (Kovacic & Sokol – CPI)
- Antitrust Harm and Causation (Herbert Hovenkamp – University of Pennsylvania)
- The FTC’s Role in a Changing World (Federal Trade Commission)
- Big Tech’s Fight Over Privacy: Could Facebook Win an Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple? (Herbert Hovenkamp – Promarket)
Blockchain & artificial intelligence:
- Elon Musk’s Tesla Has Invested $1.5 Billion Into Bitcoin (Tim Copeland – Decrypt)
- Why Tesla Bought $1.5 Billion in Bitcoin (WSJ Tech News Briefing – Stitcher) 🎧
- How Elon Musk’s Twitter activity moves cryptocurrency markets (Lennart Ante – Blockchain Research Lab)
- Can Governments Stop Bitcoin? (Alex Gladstein – Quillette)
- Mine a Little Bitcoin on Any PC (Thomas Smith – Tech Shortcuts for Life) 🎥
- There Are Now 106 Million Cryptocurrency Users Globally (Adriana Hamacher – Decrypt)
- What Happens if All Stablecoin Users Have to Be Identified? (J.P. Koning – Coindesk)
Big Tech:
- The Relentless Jeff Bezos (Ben Thompson – Stratechery)
- The Contradictions of Platform Regulation (Mark A. Lemley – SSRN)
- Seven deadly sins of tech? (Hal R.Varian – Information Economics and Policy)
- The Draft Digital Markets Act: a legal and institutional analysis (Pablo Ibáñez Colomo – SSRN)
- How social networks got competitive again (Casey Newton – Platformer)
- Facebook Meets Apple in Clash of the Tech Titans (Seetharaman, Glazer & Higgins – WSJ)
- Amazon Narratives: Memos, Working Backwards from Release, More (a16z Podcast) 🎧
- The Bizarre Reaction To Facebook’s Decision To Get Out Of The News Business In Australia (Mike Masnick – TechDirt)
Econ:
- The intriguing idea of ‘computational antitrust’ (Ephrat Livni – The New York Times)
- Foundations of complexity economics (W. Brian Arthur – Nature Reviews Physics)
- Disruption Through Complements (Adner & Lieberman – Strategy Science)
- Robinhood’s Very Bad Day (Planet Money – Stitcher) 🎧
- The Microeconomics of Cryptocurrencies (Halaburda, Haeringer, Gans & Gandal – NBER)
Other:
- Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election (Vitalik Buterin)
- Rules as Code in 2020: The Year in Review (Tim de Sousa – Medium)
- Democracy as an evolutionary process (Almudi & Fatás-Villafranca – Handbook of Evolutionary Economics)
- Academics like me live in fear of the woke hate mob (Matthew Goodwin – MailOnline)
- Sharing Immutable Information Between Companies (Matheus Leal – TheStartup)
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Dr. Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
