antitrust and competition
Antitrust as Economic Stimulus
By attacking power imbalances, competition policy can steer income to workers and independent merchants who are more inclined to spend than monopoly platforms.
When the...
“Amazon Is Getting Richer by the Moment —But There’s a Limit to How Many People Jeff Bezos Can Buy”
In an interview with ProMarket, Barry Lynn discusses the current state of American antimonopoly, what the Covid-19 crisis has taught us about the fragility...
The Roots of Congress’ Pathbreaking Report on Big Tech
While the House Judiciary report is chock-full of impressive “gotcha” moments concerning anticompetitive conduct by tech platforms, the real bombshell is the 30-page long...
Structural Separation and Self-Preferencing: What are the Right Lessons of History?
IBM’s entry into the PC market can teach us a lot about the risks involved with the sort of structural separations recommended this week...
Why Congress Must Take on Big Tech Monopolies
Congress must overturn bad Supreme Court precedent and reassert Congressional supremacy over the Supreme Court in antitrust policy. It should legislate break-ups and mandate structural...
What the US Economy Could Look Like if Digital Markets Were Open and Competitive
The US House of Representatives' investigation into digital platforms has opened Americans' eyes to the widespread harms that flow from the illegal monopolization of...
Four Key Takeaways from Thursday’s Antitrust Subcommittee Hearing
Held just before the House’s antitrust subcommittee is expected to release its long-anticipated report on digital platforms, Thursday's hearing yielded clues as to which...
The ACCC’s News Media Bargaining Code: Experimenting with “Decentralized Regulation” of Dominant Digital Platforms
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission recently proposed a mandatory bargaining code to govern negotiations between digital platforms like Google and Facebook and publishers...
Australia’s News Media and Digital Platforms Bargaining Code is Great Politics But Questionable Economics
If the Australian government wants to subsidize high-quality journalism then it should, well, subsidize high-quality journalism. The new proposed ACCC code would mess with...
Contextualizing the Dispute Between Australia, Facebook, and Google
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's draft news media bargaining code for digital platforms has elicited aggressive responses from both Google and Facebook and...
