Market power
The Challenges to (Re)forming a Platform Economy for the People
Measured antitrust enforcement and a more comprehensive regulatory regime can ensure that we continue to benefit from digital markets. In attempting to increase competitiveness,...
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...
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...
The Monopoly Harms That Antitrust Keeps Missing
In his new book Monopolized, journalist David Dayen tells the stories of individuals who have suffered at the hands of monopolists, showing the myriad...
Tech Monopolies Are the Reason the US Now Has a TikTok Problem
Tech platforms like Facebook say we should protect, empower, and celebrate their concentrated power for the sake of America’s national security. But their history...
Big Tech Is Officially Too Big to Manage
Last week’s Congressional hearing on Big Tech showed the CEOs of the four largest tech platforms unable to answer basic questions about their own...
The House’s Big Tech Hearing: Break Ups Large and Small?
Last week’s epic House hearing on online platforms raised many issues, chief among which was the question who gets to operate at scale.
Last week’s...
