antitrust and competition
It Is Such a Small World: The Market-Design Academic Community Evolved in a Business Network
Private equity funds such as Michael Dell's MSD Capital made hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from the 2017 FCC spectrum auction, thanks...
The Death of Independent Podcasting: What Spotify Is Trying to Do With the Joe Rogan Deal
Spotify is gaining power over podcast distribution by either buying production directly or striking exclusive deals, as it did with Rogan. Once it has...
Amazon-Owned Movie Theaters: the Next Step in Entertainment Industry Consolidation
Amazon is in talks to buy AMC Theaters, whose business model was jeopardized by the coronavirus pandemic. Other streaming companies, such as Disney and...
Here’s How Covid-19 Is Boosting Monopolization and Market Power
Monopolization and consolidation can happen for what seem to be good, or least necessary, reasons. How we respond as a society depends on how...
The Cantillon Effect: Why Wall Street Gets a Bailout and You Don’t
According to the 18th-century French banker and philosopher Richard Cantillon, who benefits when the state prints money is based on its institutional setup. In...
“Democracy Is Influenced by Lobbyists, That’s Why the People Also Need Someone to Lobby for Them”
“Individuals usually don’t have enough incentive to take action, even though it is clear they will be collectively better off by taking action.” In...
The Populist Right Has a Plan to Take Power Away From Financiers and Challenge China
The nationalist rhetoric of the Trump administration can obscure a more sophisticated recognition by some people in the populist world that the core dynamic...
Zoom, Netflix, Slack: Amazon Is Behind All the Services We Use to Work From Home (and That’s a Problem)
The new normal for millions of people represents a near-total dependence on Amazon’s cloud-computing operation, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and places a substantial portion...
How Private Equity Companies Are Lobbying to Profit from The Covid-19 Economic Fallout
Private equity funds aren’t just seeking to save the investments they already have, but to get access to more capital to invest in a...
Economics, Law and Finance Professors from Major Universities Write to Congress : “Bail Out People Before Large Corporations”
"Bailouts allow investors to keep all the profits in good times without bearing the losses in bad times. Instead, bailouts impose losses on taxpayers, including those...
