eDistortions: How Data-opolies Are Dissipating the Internet's Potential
In this chapter from the forthcoming Stigler Center ebook Digital Platforms and Concentration, published in anticipation of the eponymous conference at Chicago Booth on...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (March 17-March 24)
This week in political economy.
The “techlash” against digital platforms went into hyperdrive this week, as Facebook became increasingly embroiled in the Cambridge Analytica...
The Stigler Center Dedicates Second Annual Antitrust and Competition Conference to Digital Platforms and Concentration
The invitation-only conference will bring together economists, law scholars, intellectuals, venture capitalists, and businesspeople to debate how to promote competition in a world of...
Are Google and Facebook Monopolies?
Chicago Booth’s Luigi Zingales and George Mason University’s Tyler Cowen discuss the market power wielded by digital platforms, and how to promote competition.
Google and...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Nov. 27–Dec. 2)
The stories that most interested us this week.
The Senate approved the Republican tax bill last night following a series of last-minute amendments, paving the way...
Zingales: Too Much Power in the Hands of Big Tech Could Distort American Democracy
Watch comments by Luigi Zingales from the recent AEI Panel "Should Washington Break Up Big Tech?”
The excessive concentration of power in the hands of the...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Nov. 3–10)
The stories that most interested us this week.
Following reports that the Justice Department might force AT&T to sell Time Warner’s CNN as a...
Watch: “The Reason We Have Google and Facebook Today Is Because of Antitrust Enforcement Against Microsoft”
In an interview with the Chicago Booth Review, Stigler Center Director Luigi Zingales spoke about the importance of competition.
“Competition is the essence of what makes...
“Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in 1956"
Media scholar Jonathan Taplin, author of the new book Move Fast and Break Things, on the rent-seeking and regulatory capture of digital platforms.
In 2014,...
