I am absolutely delighted to let you know about the publication of a new article I co-authored with Vitalik Buterin (co-founder of the Ethereum): “Blockchain Code as Antitrust“. It starts from the following premise: the rule of law does not govern all human interactions. Against this background, one may want to rely on other means to increase...Read More
Please find below the articles that I enjoyed during the month of April 2020. Mostly antitrust-related, but not limited to it. Learn about them on a more regular basis by following me on Twitter at @LeConcurrential. Antitrust: POWER: Trust and Distrust (Eleanor Fox) Libra: A Concentrate of “Blockchain Antitrust” (Thibault Schrepel) Antitrust Antitextualism (Daniel A. Crane) Competition Policy and the Covid-19 Opportunity (Jorge...Read More
Blockchain was first introduced by Satoshi Nakamoto with her/his/their article “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” published on October 31, 2008 (although… interestingly enough, Satoshi Nakamoto never used the word “blockchain” in the white paper). Hundreds of millions of transactions have since been implemented on it. This is me being sarcastic on Twitter: Confirmed #Bitcoin transactions per day....Read More
Blockchain antitrust is a fascinating subject. The number of cases is rising (I will discuss that shortly), and antitrust agencies are slowly but surely starting to devote resources to the topic. With that in mind, I am delighted to publish my latest article entitled Libra: A Concentrate of “Blockchain Antitrust”. This is a short one (10 pages) dealing with a...Read More
YOU LIKE THIS NEWSLETTER? THEN ANSWER MY 1-QUESTION SURVEY : ) *** Please find below the articles that I enjoyed during the month of March 2020. Mostly antitrust-related, but not limited to it. Learn about them on a more regular basis by following me on Twitter at @LeConcurrential. Antitrust: Roads Not Taken: The Federal Trade Commission and Google (William Kovacic) A letter to...Read More
This is a one-question survey. This survey is intended to build a database of the most valuable antitrust/competition law academic papers published in the last 10 years. The goal is to assist scholarship in not missing prior art, and in avoiding “rediscovering” ideas already published simply because important articles would have been buried under quantities...Read More
Please find below the articles that I enjoyed during the month of February 2020. Mostly antitrust-related, but not limited to it. There’s more than usual. Learn about them on a more regular basis by following me on Twitter at @LeConcurrential. Antitrust: Democracy And Monopoly In Governments, Markets, And Firms (Daniel A. Crane) The Fundamental Unimportance of Algorithmic Collusion for Antitrust Law (Thibault Schrepel)...Read More
Dear readers, these past few weeks, I have been publishing videos in which I presented and explained the “The Theory of Granularity: A Path for Antitrust in Blockchain Ecosystems” (freely accessible on SSRN). This post puts them all in one place. Thank you for watching. Thibault. *** Video #1: Understanding the theory of the firm as used...Read More
Dear readers, here’s the fourth and final video of the series dealing with “The Theory of Granularity: A Path for Antitrust in Blockchain Ecosystems” (freely accessible on SSRN). I previously showed that antitrust law is based on Ronald Coase’s theory of the firm, that public blockchains escape that theory, and that, accordingly, a new theory is needed. I now want...Read More
The background story It all started on Wednesday, February 12, 2020. ALL? The (first) Google hearing, of course. It has been a long wait, but hopefully worth it. Previously on the Google Saga, the European Commission has announced the decision (in June 2017), has published it (in December of the same year), and ever since, has fined Google two more times. An...Read More
