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This post features my latest reading suggestions based on the academic papers and press articles that I enjoyed reading in July 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:
- Antitrust Jukebox #1 — Video highlights (Thibault Schrepel — Concurrentialiste) 🎥
- Competition Stories: May & June 2021 (Makis Komninos — Concurrentialiste)
- Antitrust carousel (Mark Scott — Politico)
- When did the rule of law come to be seen as an inconvenience? (Pablo Ibáñez Colomo — Chillin’ Competition)
- Antitrust Statutorification (Nicolas Petit — Truth on the Market)
- The FTC train wreck continues (Tyler Cowen — Marginal Revolution)
- Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook Face at Least 70 Antitrust Probes, Cases (Josh Sisco — The Information)
- President Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting Competition: an Antitrust Analysis (Herbert Hovenkamp — SSRN)
- Merger Control Z (Jorge Padilla, Joe Perkins, Salvatore Piccolo & Paul Reynolds — SSRN)
- The Biden Executive Order on Promoting Competition (Tyler Cowen — Marginal Revolution)
Blockchain & artificial intelligence:
- The Political Economy of the Blockchain (Pēteris Zilgalvis — Springer)
- Amazon ‘definitely’ lining up Bitcoin payments and token, confirms insider (Darren Parkin — Citya.M.)
Big Tech:
- Big Data Protection: Big Problem? (Stephen Dnes — Antitrust Chronicle)
- Playlisting favorites: Measuring platform bias in the music industry (Aguiar, Waldfogel & Waldfogelc — Int. J. Ind. Organ.)
- The Eternal October: Bringing Back Tech Optimism, Without The Naivety (Mike Masnick — TechDirt)
- How TikTok’s Algorithm Figures You Out (Wall Street Journal) 🎥
- Apple vs Facebook: how the war between the Silicon Valley giants is changing tech (Bryan Appleyard — New Statesman)
- Mark in The Mataverse (Casey Newton — The Verge) 🎧
- Can Self-Regulation Save Digital Platforms? (Cusumano, Gawer & Yoffi — ICC 2021)
Econ:
- What Complexity Economics Can Add To our View of the World (Tracy Alloway & Joe Weisenthal — Bloomberg)
- Tim Berners-Lee’s Web Source Code NFT Sells for $5.4 Million at Sotheby’s (Ekin Genc — Decrypt)
- New model shows how social networks could help generate economic phenomena (Oxford)
- Eurosystem launches digital euro project (European Central Bank)
- Digitization and the Evolution of Money as a Social Technology of Account (Peneder — J. Evol. Econ.)
- How Barriers to Cross-Border Data Flows Are Spreading Globally (Nigel Cory & Luke Dascoli — ITIF)
Other:
- Why Legislators Want to Move Fast and Break Things in the Cyberspace? (Alexandre de Streel — Concurrentialiste)
- From Lex Informatica to the Control Revolution (Julie E. Cohen — Berkeley Technology Law Journal)
- At Tyler Cowen University, No One Would Have Tenure (Tyler Cowen — Bloomberg)
- Public Choice Outreach Conference (Tabarrok, Rajagopalan, Hanson, Jones & Boettke)
- Long Waves: The History of Innovation Cycles (Dorothy Neufeld — Visual Capitalist)
- Vernon Smith In Conversation With Shruti Rajagopalan (Oxford Union Web Series) 🎥
- Why I’m a Proud Solutionist (Jason Crawford — MIT Technology Review)
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Dr. Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
