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Antitrust and Competition

Rep. Ken Buck on the Need for Antitrust Reform: “Big Corporate America Scares People”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, Republican congressman Ken Buck explains why antitrust enforcement is so crucial to the US economy and American democracy,...
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Antitrust and Competition

Seize the Means of Computation

Cory Doctorow
To regain internet autonomy from Big Tech companies, lower switching costs with legislation that allows new services to subvert network effects and...
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Antitrust and Competition

Is It Better to Address the Apple-Google App Store Duopoly Through Antitrust or Regulation? 

Giuseppe Colangelo, Oscar Borgogno
A new paper analyzes antitrust investigations and private litigation initiated against the Google and Apple app stores, exploring how the main anticompetitive...
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Antitrust and Competition

Why Competition Alone Won’t Bring About a More Inclusive Digital Economy

Maurice E. Stucke
The current reforms being debated in the US and Europe to tackle the challenges posed by tech giants tend to see more...
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Antitrust and Competition

How to Prevent Big Tech From Hindering Pathbreaking Innovation in the Metaverse

Cristian Santesteban
The transition to the metaverse presents a technological paradigm shift akin to the shift from desktop computers to smartphones, but today’s dominant...
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Antitrust and Competition

Designing Better Antitrust Remedies for the Digital World

Filippo Lancieri, Caio Mario da Silva Pereira Neto
Even when antitrust enforcers and courts get it right when finding an anticompetitive infringement, they constantly end up imposing remedies that are...
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Antitrust and Competition

How Big Media Handed Digital Advertising to Big Tech

Oles Andriychuk
The current structure of digital advertising markets makes the Google-Facebook duopoly an unavoidable trading partner for every party in the content consumption...
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Antitrust and Competition

Google’s Calls for DOJ Antitrust Head Jonathan Kanter’s Recusal Are Baseless

Laurence H. Tribe
Kanter’s pre-existing commitment to aggressive antitrust enforcement, far from compromising the legitimacy of his actions, reinforces his qualifications for doing the job...
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Antitrust and Competition

How the Free Software and the IP Wars of the 1990s and 2000s Presaged Today’s Toxic, Concentrated Internet

Elettra Bietti
How did the internet evolve from a relatively decentralized, hybrid, and democratizing space toward a concentrated, privatized environment controlled by a handful...
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Antitrust and Competition

How Apple Locks Out the Competition with Its Digital Key

Adam Levitin
Apple’s efforts to dominate the contactless payments market and lock up the “digital key” space pose a profound threat to consumer privacy...
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The Road to Hayek: A Comprehensive History of Neoliberalism’s Forefather

Bruce J. Caldwell, Hansjoerg Klausinger
In their first of two volumes, economic historians Bruce Caldwell and Hansjoerg Klausinger access new archival material to explore the first fifty...
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News

International Policymaking Must Evolve

Paul Tucker
In this Q&A about his new book for ProMarket, Paul Tucker explains the changing global order and the need for academics, policymakers...
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ESG

Capitalism Does Not Require a Tradeoff Between Planet and Profit

Alessio Terzi
Critics of capitalism claim that the economic system incorrigibly encourages the exploitation of the planet and is thus incompatible with efforts to...
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Academic Capture

Event Notes: Academic Bias Under the Microscope

Andy Shi
That scholarship often reflects conscious and unconscious biases has long been an open secret in academia. On April 22, Professors Christian Leuz,...
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Commentary

Corporations Are Not “We the People”

Geoffrey R. Stone
The Citizens United ruling contradicts the Founders, decades of Supreme Court precedent and the will of the American people.
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Antitrust and Competition

Too Many Economists Are Using a Flawed Theory To Defend Dominant Platforms’ Self-Preferencing Practices

David J. Balan
Congress is currently considering two major bills that would regulate “self-preferencing” and related conduct by dominant digital platforms. Criticism of these bills...
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Antitrust and Competition

Unfair Methods of Competition

Cory Doctorow
The FTC’s new policy on unfair methods of competition is an assertion of the original purpose of the agency, allowing it to...
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