Digital platforms
Editors’ Briefing: This Week in Political Economy (May 4–May 12)
A whistleblower alleges fraud in the audits of Silicon Valley companies; AT&T acknowledges that hiring Michael Cohen was a "bad mistake"; new analysis finds that...
“In 10 Years, the Surveillance Business Model Will Have Been Made Illegal”
The opening panel of the Stigler Center’s annual antitrust conference discussed the source of digital platforms’ power and what, if anything, can be done...
Editors’ Briefing: This Week in Political Economy (April 28–May 4)
George Mason University faces controversy over its relationship with donors; the former CEO of Volkswagen is charged in relation to the company’s diesel emissions...
Glen Weyl: "The Very Structure of Capitalism Is Inherently Monopolistic"
In an interview with ProMarket, Glen Weyl, co-author of the wildly ambitious (and wildly controversial) new book Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a...
Luigi Zingales Proposes Creation of Interdisciplinary Committee on Digital Platforms Regulation
The Committee on Internet Platforms Regulation, proposed Zingales would be comprised of academics and experts on the industry.
At the end of the Stigler Center’s conference...
Editors’ Briefing: This Week in Political Economy (April 14–April 28)
Why has Facebook’s scandal not dented its earnings? How much are states and local governments giving to corporations in economic-development incentives? And did CFPB...
Data Workers of the World, Unite!
With solutions to the threats of digital monopolies currently looking unlikely to come from the state, law and economics scholars Eric Posner and Glen...
Former Italian PM and European Competition Commissioner Mario Monti: Why Antitrust Enforcement Is “More Vigorous" in Europe Than in the US
Why is Europe so much more vigorous than the US when it comes to antitrust enforcement? In an interview with ProMarket, Monti, who served...
DOJ Antitrust Chief Makan Delrahim: “American Antitrust Agencies Likely Have Made More Enforcement Mistakes Than Any of Their Foreign Counterparts”
In a keynote address at the Stigler Center's Antitrust and Competition: Digital Platforms and Concentration conference, the US Department of Justice's Assistant Attorney General...
Platforms and Adjacent Market Competition: A Look at Recent History
Chapter 7 of our Digital Platforms and Concentration conference ebook looks at some critical junctures in the history of competition between Big Tech companies...
