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Academic Capture

Uber’s “Academic Research” Program: How to Use Famous Economists to Spread Corporate Narratives

Hubert Horan
Uber's employees co-authored academic papers with brand name scholars that were then used to back the company's PR and lobbying strategy. Published in respected...
Antitrust and Competition

The Qualcomm Case: Why Protecting American Tech Monopolies Is a Big Favor to China

Matt Stoller
The FTC sued the company that monopolized the market of components for cell phones with its aggressive patent policy. However, in the technological race...
Antitrust and Competition

False Claims and Propaganda: Why Uber’s Narratives Are Wrong But Successful

Hubert Horan
Uber’s narratives reduce everything to emotive battles between good and evil. If Uber’s success is inevitable, and resistance is futile, no one needs to waste...
Antitrust and Competition

Benjamin Netanyahu Sided With Israel's Oligarchs — and It Led to His Downfall

Asher Schechter
The indictment against Israel’s prime minister exposes an entire ecosystem of institutionalized corruption, one which has been in place long before Netanyahu came to...
Academic Capture

The Uber Bubble: Why Is a Company That Lost $20 Billion Claimed to Be Successful?

Hubert Horan
In the first of three interrelated articles, transportation consultant Hubert Horan discusses Uber's "uncompetitive economics." There is no real innovation in the company's business...
Antitrust and Competition

High-Priced Acquisitions of Tech Startups Do Not Always Stimulate More Innovation

ProMarket writers
What seems to be a big reward to innovation ultimately reduces the incentive to innovate, argues a new Stigler Center working paper by Krishna...
Antitrust and Competition

How Israel's Antimonopolists Helped Take Down Benjamin Netanyahu

Matt Stoller
The corruption exposed by Israeli antimonopolists has been a key driver of Benjamin Netanyahu's current political woes.        If you pay any attention to the weird...
Antitrust and Competition

Why a New Digital Authority Is Necessary

Luigi Zingales
A recent Washington Post op-ed claimed that creating a digital authority to regulate Big Tech would be a disaster because of high costs and the...
Antitrust and Competition

A Tale of Hubris and Excess: How Uber Fooled Portland Regulators

Mike Isaac
In an excerpt from his new book "Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber," New York Times reporter Mike Isaac reveals the details of Uber's...
Antitrust and Competition

How Amazon Rigs Its Shopping Algorithm

Stacy Mitchell
For companies that sell on Amazon’s platform, “winning the Buy Box”—the area on the right-hand side of the page that says “Add to Cart”...
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