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Presenting: The Stigler Center’s Report on How to Rein in Big Tech

ProMarket writers
The Stigler Center presents its policy suggestions on how to address the political and economic issues raised by the market power of tech platforms...
Antitrust and Competition

How to Protect Competition and Consumers in Digital Markets

ProMarket writers
While some markets may self-correct, rapid self-correction in markets dominated by large digital platforms is unlikely. The economy and market structure subcommittee of the...
Antitrust and Competition

How to Address the Privacy and Security Challenges Posed by Big Tech

ProMarket writers
The idiosyncrasies of the American approach to regulation have left the world’s largest economy ill-equipped to protect consumers and guide firms when it comes...
Antitrust and Competition

How to Protect the News Media in the Age of Digital Platforms

ProMarket writers
Digital platforms present a new formidable threat to the news media that market forces will not correct if left to their own devices. The...
Antitrust and Competition

How to Mitigate the Political Impacts of Social Media and Digital Platform Concentration

ProMarket writers
Ahead of its annual conference on Digital Platforms, Markets and Democracy, the Stigler Center formed a committee to produce independent white papers that will...
Antitrust and Competition

“It’s Crucial to Break Up Facebook”

Asher Schechter
Columbia law professor Tim Wu on The Curse of Bigness, neo-Brandeisian antitrust, and the lessons we should learn from the first Gilded Age. Four...
Antitrust and Competition

Would Sen. Warner’s Ambitious Plan to Regulate Social Media Giants “Ruin” the Internet—Or Save it?

Asher Schechter
Sen. Mark Warner’s proposals to regulate social media platforms are by far the most ambitious to come from Congress. We gathered three experts to...
Antitrust and Competition

Platforms and Adjacent Market Competition: A Look at Recent History

Randy Picker
Chapter 7 of our Digital Platforms and Concentration conference ebook looks at some critical junctures in the history of competition between Big Tech companies...
Antitrust and Competition

The Unprecedented Power of Digital Platforms to Control Opinions and Votes

Robert Epstein
In Chapter 6 of our Digital Platforms and Concentration conference ebook, a research psychologist who, with an associate, discovered the search engine manipulation effect (SEME)...
Antitrust and Competition

Solutions to the Threats of Digital Monopolies

Sandra Matz
In Chapter 5 of the forthcoming Stigler Center ebook Digital Platforms and Concentration, published in anticipation of the eponymous conference at Chicago Booth on...
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