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A comprehensive survey of the law & economics of online intermediary liability, which concludes that any proposed reform of Section 230 must meaningfully reduce the incidence of unlawful or tortious online content such that its net benefits outweigh its net costs.

Who Moderates the Moderators?: A Law & Economics Approach to Holding Online Platforms Accountable Without Destroying the Internet

4 November 2021

Credit Cards and the Reverse Robin Hood Fallacy: Do Credit Card Rewards Really Steal from the Poor and Give to the Rich?

7 October 2021

Issue Brief: The Great Transatlantic Data Disruption

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January 19, 2022

Testimony of Geoffrey A. Manne, 'Reviving Competition, Part 5: Addressing the Effects of Economic Concentration on America’s Food Supply'

Geoffrey A. Manne

Even within the industries that have seen particularly newsworthy price increases, the complex competitive dynamics of those industries offer far more plausible explanations of current prices than do unsubstantiated claims of anticompetitive conduct or collusion.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

January 12, 2022

Intermediaries: The Hero We Need?

Dirk Auer

Intermediaries may not be the consumer welfare hero we want, but more often than not, they are one that we need. In policy discussions about the digital economy, a background…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

January 11, 2022

Amazon Italy’s Efficiency Offense

Lazar Radic & Geoffrey A. Manne

Early last month, the Italian competition authority issued a record 1.128 billion euro fine against Amazon for abuse of dominance under Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

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R.J. Lehmann

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R.J. Lehmann joined ICLE as Editor-in-Chief and Senior Fellow in November 2020. He is responsible for crafting and executing ICLE’s editorial strategy and managing its publication calendar.

R.J. was previously Director of Finance, Insurance, and Trade Policy for the R Street Institute, which he co-founded in June 2012. Earlier in his career, he was deputy director of the Heartland Institute’s Center on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate and public affairs director of the Independent Institute.

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Who Moderates the Moderators?: A Law & Economics Approach to Holding Online Platforms Accountable Without Destroying the Internet

Credit Cards and the Reverse Robin Hood Fallacy: Do Credit Card Rewards Really Steal from the Poor and Give to the Rich?

Issue Brief: The Great Transatlantic Data Disruption

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Testimony of Geoffrey A. Manne, 'Reviving Competition, Part 5: Addressing the Effects of Economic Concentration on America’s Food Supply'

Intermediaries: The Hero We Need?

Amazon Italy’s Efficiency Offense

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R.J. Lehmann