March 12, 2019

Elizabeth Warren wants to turn the internet into a literal sewer (service)

Geoffrey A. Manne & Alec Stapp

Near the end of her new proposal to break up Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple, Senator Warren asks, “So what would the Internet look like after all these reforms?” To Warren, our most dynamic and innovative companies constitute a problem that needs solving.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

July 9, 2018

Correcting the Federalist Society Review’s Mischaracterization of How to Regulate

Thomas Lambert

Ours is not an age of nuance.  It’s an age of tribalism, of teams—“Yer either fer us or agin’ us!”  Perhaps I should have been less surprised, then, when I read the unfavorable review of my book How to Regulate in, of all places, the Federalist Society Review.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

April 16, 2018

The illiberal vision of neo-Brandeisian antitrust

Geoffrey A. Manne

The urge to treat antitrust as a legal Swiss Army knife capable of correcting all manner of social and economic ills is apparently difficult for some to resist. Conflating size with market power, and market power with political power, many recent calls for regulation of industry — and the tech industry in particular — are framed in antitrust terms.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

September 22, 2017

antitrust laws are not some meta-legislation authorizing whatever activists want

Geoffrey A. Manne

In a recent post at the (appallingly misnamed) ProMarket blog (the blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business — George Stigler is rolling…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

January 1, 2016

Data Regulation and its Effect on Business Models & Corporate Organization

Geoffrey A. Manne

Regulatory and legal approaches that make the collection and use of data more expensive along certain dimensions must, at least marginally, induce some companies to alter their behavior to avoid those costs...

Data Security & Privacy

November 24, 2015

Amicus Brief, US Telecom v. FCC, D.C. Circuit

Geoffrey A. Manne & Ben Sperry & Gus Hurwitz

"The Order represents a substantial and unprecedented expansion of the FCC’s claimed authority. The Commission asserts authority to implement agency-defined policy by any means over the entire broadband communications infrastructure of the United States..."

Telecommunications

September 25, 2015

Amicus Brief, Tennessee v. FCC, 6th Circuit

Geoffrey A. Manne & Berin Szoka

"This case is not about broadband deployment or competition, nor local autonomy. It is about the FCC’s claim of sweeping power and its essentially unchecked discretion to govern the Internet..."

Telecommunications

May 26, 2015

Comments, Sharing Economy Workshop, FTC

Geoffrey A. Manne & Berin Szoka

"We commend the Federal Trade Commission for holding this workshop, and for its recent advocacy of ride-sharing services like Uber, Lyft and Sidecar with transportation regulators in the District of Columbia, Chicago, Colorado and Alaska..."

Innovation & The New Economy

January 1, 2014

Uncertainty, Evolution and Behavioral Economic Theory

Geoffrey A. Manne & Todd Zywicki

Armen Alchian was one of the great economists of the twentieth century, and his 1950 paper, Uncertainty, Evolution, and Economic Theory, one of the most important contributions to the economic literature.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection