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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Coronavirus Special Issue

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.  This is by far my favorite headline of...
Income Inequality

American Oligarch: Michael Bloomberg Reveals His One Remaining Path to the Democratic Nomination

Asher Schechter
Michael Bloomberg's only real path to the nomination was always a contested convention, where he could be able to further leverage his wealth and...
Antitrust and Competition

How to Restore Competition in Digital Advertising Markets and Protect Users

Filippo Lancieri
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority is considering a range of interventions in digital advertising markets, among them obliging Google to share click and query...
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Paul Krugman on the Economic Impact of Coronavirus: "We Are Very Vulnerable, This Could Be Pretty Bad"

ProMarket writers
A sneak video preview of next week's episode of Capitalisn't, the podcast hosted by Luigi Zingales and Kate Waldock, in which Nobel Prize-winning economist...
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Paul Krugman on the Economic Impact of Coronavirus: “We Are Very Vulnerable, This Could Be Pretty Bad”

ProMarket writers
A sneak video preview of next week's episode of Capitalisn't, the podcast hosted by Luigi Zingales and Kate Waldock, in which Nobel Prize-winning economist...
Media

Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Coronavirus, the Sugar Conspiracy, and Blackstone

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.      Yes, yes, I'm obsessed with the rise...
Antitrust and Competition

How Google and Facebook Made Digital Advertising Markets Increasingly Opaque to Protect Their Dominance

Filippo Lancieri
According to the British Competition and Markets Authority, barriers to entry are so high that not even Amazon is a real threat to Google...
Antitrust and Competition

The Only Regulation Mark Zuckerberg Likes Is No Regulation

Stefano Feltri
In an op-ed and a white paper, Facebook's CEO argues that "private companies should not make so many decisions alone when they touch on...
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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Growth, Amazon, and Baseball

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.      In school, our kids learn about having...
Antitrust and Competition

Facebook’s Enduring Control Over Social Media Markets

Filippo Lancieri
According to the British Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Facebook accounts for 75 percent of the UK’s social media market. Over the past 10 years,...
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