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May 16, 2018

The net neutrality CRA may be the most tedious piece of political theater ever

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout

At this point, only the most masochistic and cynical among DC’s policy elite actually desire for the net neutrality conflict to continue. And yet, despite claims that net neutrality principles are critical…

Telecommunications

May 11, 2018

The Tariff Act is indeed protectionist — and that’s how Congress wants it

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout

Although not always front page news, International Trade Commission (“ITC”) decisions can have major impacts on trade policy and antitrust law. Scott Kieff, a former ITC Commissioner, recently published a thoughtful analysis…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

May 10, 2018

Henry G. Manne: Testimony on the Proposed Industrial Reorganization Act of 1973

Geoffrey A. Manne

In 1973, Michigan Senator Philip A. Hart introduced Senate Bill 1167, the Industrial Reorganization Act, in order to address perceived problems arising from industrial concentration. The bill was rooted in the belief that industry concentration led inexorably to monopoly power.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

May 9, 2018

Closing the Rural Digital Divide Requires Understanding the Rural Digital Divide

Gus Hurwitz

I had the pleasure last month of hosting the first of a new annual roundtable discussion series on closing the rural digital divide through the University of Nebraska’s Space, Cyber, and Telecom Law Program. The purpose of the roundtable was to convene a diverse group of stakeholders for a discussion of the on-the-ground reality of closing the rural digital divide.

Innovation & The New Economy

May 3, 2018

The Real Reason Foundem Foundered

Geoffrey A. Manne

A pair of recent, long-form articles in the New York Times Magazine and Wired UK — the latest in a virtual journalistic cottage industry of such articles — chronicle the downfall of British price comparison site and stalwart Google provocateur, Foundem, and attribute its demise to anticompetitive behavior on the part of Google.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

May 1, 2018

Amazon and the Unwisdom of the Populist Crowd

Kristian Stout

There are some who view a host of claimed negative social ills allegedly related to the large size of firms like Amazon as an occasion to call for the company’s break…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

April 30, 2018

Net Neutrality Paranoia

Kristian Stout

The paranoid style is endemic across the political spectrum, for sure, but lately in the policy realm haunted by the shambling zombie known as “net neutrality,” the pro-Title II set are taking the rhetoric up a notch. This time the problem is, apparently, that the FCC is not repealing Title II classification fast enough, which surely must mean … nefarious things?

Telecommunications

April 20, 2018

Classical Liberalism and the Problem of Technological Change

Geoffrey A. Manne & Gus Hurwitz

Summary The relationship between classical liberalism and technology is surprisingly fraught. The common understanding is that technological advance is complementary to the principles of classical liberalism – especially in the…

Innovation & The New Economy

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