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This post features my latest reading suggestions based on the academic papers and press articles that I enjoyed reading in November 2020. As I tend to favor open-source publications and active sharing, you may follow me on Twitter (@LeConcurrential) or LinkedIn (here) to access similar articles on a more regular basis.
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Antitrust:
- Spotlight On Cartels: Bid Rigging Affecting Public Procurement (Alison Jones – Concurrentialiste)
- Resources For Antitrust Law Students (Thibault Schrepel – Concurrentialiste)
- Position Paper for the Public Consultation on the Digital Services Act and a New Competition Tool (CNMC)
- Institutional Reforms and Agency Design (Daniel Crane – GAI)
- Whatever Happened to the ‘More Economics-Based Approach’? (Pablo Ibáñez Colomo)
- The New Competition Tool: A Trojan Horse to win the war against liberty (Maya-Salomé Garnier – Competition Forum)
- Competition in the Digital Advertising Market (Catherine Tucker – GAI)
- “Here I Go Again”: New Developments for the Future of the Antitrust Division (Makan Delrahim – DOJ)
- Less Restrictive Alternatives and the Ancillary Restraints Doctrine (Thomas Nachbar)
- Error Costs in Digital Markets (Geoffrey Manny – GAI)
- Some Reactions to “Reactionary Antitrust” (Seth B. Sacher & John M. Yun – Concurrences)
- FTC Financial Report 2020
- Publication of Antitrust Decisions of the European Commission (Wouter P. J. Wils – Concurrences)
Blockchain & artificial intelligence:
- Blockchain Code as Antitrust Law (Thibault Schrepel & Aaron Lane – Mint & Burn)
- Introduction to Computer Science and Programming (Eric Grimson – MIT)
- Crypto Influencers Do Not Influence Bitcoin Price, Study Finds (Robert Stevens – Decrypt)
- AI pioneer Geoff Hinton: “Deep learning is going to be able to do everything” (Karen Hao – MIT Tech Review)
- Personal Data: Thinking Inside the Box (Haddadi, Howard, Chaudhry, Crowcroft, Madhavapeddy, Mortier)
- An AI Helps You Summarize the Latest in AI (Karen Hao – MIT Tech Review)
- Can You Teach a Machine to Think (MIT Tech Review)
- The Uncertain Promise of Blockchain for Government (OECD)
- Facebook’s Libra to Reportedly Launch in January 2021 as USD Stablecoin (Helen Partz – Coin Telegraph)
- Bitcoin is Near All-Time Highs and the Mainstream Doesn’t Care…Yet (Niccolo Conte – Visual Capitalist)
Big Tech:
- How Leading Economists View Antitrust in the Digital Economy (LSE Business Review)
- Big Tech Platforms and Schumpeter’s Creative Destruction (Nicolas Petit – Pro Market)
- Going Public in an Era of Social Media: Tweets, Corrections, and Public Opinion (Christenson, Kreps & Kriner)
- Tech’s Bizarre Beginnings & Lucrative Pivots (Therese Wood – Visual Capitalist)
- Facebook Is Dead (It Just Doesn’t Know It Yet) (Jared A. Brock – Medium)
- $113 Million Settlement Against Apple for Misrepresenting iPhone Batteries (which I call predatory innovation)
- Europe is Foing After the Internet’s Business Model. A New One is Urgently Needed (Mark Scott – Politico)
- Five Myths About Misinformation (Brendan Nyhan – Washington Post)
- The EU’s Antitrust Case Against Amazon Is Begging the Question (Alec Stapp – Agglomerations)
Econ:
- Freakonomics and the State of Economics (Steven Levitt & Russ Roberts)
- Sins of Omission and the Practice of Economics (George A. Akerlof – J. of Econ. Literature)
- The Limits of Rivalry (Kelly Fayne – Truth on the Market)
- Justice Department Sues to Block Visa’s Proposed Acquisition of Plaid (DOJ)
- Risk, Uncertainty and Ignorance in Investing and Business – Lessons from Richard Zeckhauser (Tren Griffin – 25iq)
- On the Rise: 2019 Set a Record for New Female-Led Unicorns (Carmen Ang – Visual Capitalist)
- The Idea Adoption Curve (Ben Thompson – Stratechery)
Other:
- How to Moderate Talks, Panels, Meetings, More (Virtual and Beyond!) (Matt Abrahams – a16z)
- Scientists Uncover the Universal Geometry of Geology (Joshua Sokol – Quanta Magazine)
- Software is Scholarship (Houman B. Shadab – MIT Computational Law Report)
- Almost Wikipedia: Eight Early Encyclopedia Projects and the Mechanisms of Collective Action (Benjamin Mako Hill – MIT)
- A Step Forward in the Promise of Ultrafast ‘Hyperloops’ (Eric A. Taub – NYTimes)
I also read (and enjoyed) these books:
- Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It (Yale, 2008)
- John Tomasi, Free Market Fairness (Princeton, 2012)
Dr. Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
