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How the Tension Between Big Business and Antitrust Will Reshape Post-Covid America
Big Business is going to be structuring the response to the pandemic, at least temporarily. A new generation of leaders and thinkers is not...
The Best Political Economy Books of 2019
A history of American antimonopoly, the case against Big Tech, and how Europe got better than the US at free markets: here are (in no...
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...
A Tale of Hubris and Excess: How Uber Fooled Portland Regulators
In an excerpt from his new book "Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber," New York Times reporter Mike Isaac reveals the details of Uber's...
The News About Antitrust’s Impending Resurgence Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
The federal antitrust agencies don’t appear to be serious about their recent Big Tech push. And given that the Supreme Court and federal judiciary...
Is Amazon Violating the Sherman Act?
A new paper suggests that Amazon’s negative cash flow rapid expansion story may in fact conceal a long-term predatory pricing strategy that violates existing...
“It’s Crucial to Break Up Facebook”
Columbia law professor Tim Wu on The Curse of Bigness, neo-Brandeisian antitrust, and the lessons we should learn from the first Gilded Age.
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If You Don’t Think Today’s Tech Giants Are Vicious, Just Ask Venture Capitalists
Silicon Valley today resembles the deepest part of the jungle known as the triple canopy, where tall trees block out all the light and...
Would Sen. Warner’s Ambitious Plan to Regulate Social Media Giants “Ruin” the Internet—Or Save it?
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...
“If You’re Running an Authoritarian Government, You Love Facebook”
In a wide-ranging interview with ProMarket, media scholar Siva Vaidhyanathan explains why Facebook has become “too big to manage” and why he believes the...
