Market power
"The Lack of Competition Has Deprived American Workers of $1.25 Trillion of Income"
French economist Thomas Philippon, author of the recent The Great Reversal, explains how Europe got to be better at free markets than the US and how...
Uber’s “Academic Research” Program: How to Use Famous Economists to Spread Corporate Narratives
Uber's employees co-authored academic papers with brand name scholars that were then used to back the company's PR and lobbying strategy. Published in respected...
The Qualcomm Case: Why Protecting American Tech Monopolies Is a Big Favor to China
The FTC sued the company that monopolized the market of components for cell phones with its aggressive patent policy. However, in the technological race...
False Claims and Propaganda: Why Uber’s Narratives Are Wrong But Successful
Uber’s narratives reduce everything to emotive battles between good and evil. If Uber’s success is inevitable, and resistance is futile, no one needs to waste...
How Israel's Antimonopolists Helped Take Down Benjamin Netanyahu
The corruption exposed by Israeli antimonopolists has been a key driver of Benjamin Netanyahu's current political woes.
If you pay any attention to the weird...
How Amazon Rigs Its Shopping Algorithm
For companies that sell on Amazon’s platform, “winning the Buy Box”—the area on the right-hand side of the page that says “Add to Cart”...
Monopolization in the Name of Privacy: Google Is Slowly But Steadily Closing Its Advertising Ecosystem
In attempting to address legitimate privacy concerns, Google could be trying to monopolize surveillance.
As Big Tech’s leviathan wraps its tentacles around online markets,...
The Intersection of Privacy, Data, and Competition
The issues around technology, data, and privacy are complicated, but solving them is less tricky that many companies would have Congress believe.
Editor’s note: The...
How Economic Concentration and Crony Capitalism Led to the Chaos in Chile
The signals of unrest in Chile mounted for years amid corruption scandals, rising inequality, and new monopolies. The fare increase on public transport that...
How the “Watergate Babies” Released the Beast of Monopoly Upon America
Why did Washington respond to the 2008 financial crisis by pushing even more wealth and power into the hands of the same people that...
