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Sanjukta Kwame Paul LT @sanjukta.bsky.social · 20h

This actually is important. The (modified) per se rule on tying does constrain Big Tech behavior to some non-trivial degree. No accident Microsoft filed an amicus brief for defendants (whose petition failed)

Daniel Hanley @danielahanley.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, a decent decision from the Supreme Court. Today, the Court denied a petition to get rid of the per se rule on tying. This is incredibly important (E.g., Google ad tech district court decision!). www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?...

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American Economic Liberties Project @econliberties.bsky.social · 1d

CA just banned price fixing via algorithm across the economy!

As corporations weaponize this technology to rip off consumers and hurt competition it's great to see @governor.ca.gov sign AB 325 to stop this practice!

Here's our own Lee Hepner testifying in support of the bill earlier this year👇

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2d

Harold Meyerson sat in on a court case in LA which made clear that Amazon controls every aspect of the work experience of delivery driver "contractors" while claiming they are not a joint employer. It would be devastating in a world with actually functioning labor law.

Breaking: Amazon Actually Employs Its Delivery Drivers

While Trump, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos seek to nullify worker rights, a Los Angeles court last week forced Bezos’s company to document the truth.

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Daniel Hanley @danielahanley.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, a decent decision from the Supreme Court. Today, the Court denied a petition to get rid of the per se rule on tying. This is incredibly important (E.g., Google ad tech district court decision!). www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?...

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Sanjukta Kwame Paul LT @sanjukta.bsky.social · 4d

3. Finally, we should reconsider the self coordinating market as a starting point because economic coordination is not a small exception or add-on to the basic picture: it is fundamental to economic life, in any form. It should get equal billing as a basic building block of any theory of the economy

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Tim Wu @superwuster.bsky.social · 5d

It is weird and not healthy to begin every day wondering:

"What outrageous thing will the U.S. government do today? Will it be unethical, unconstitutional, or all of the above?"

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Daniel Hanley @danielahanley.bsky.social · 5d

There’s something truly terrifying about how casually tech oligarchs now describe their plans to restructure society. They are publicly pitching to investors and governments a future where we are all obedient subjects under their control.

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Daniel Hanley @danielahanley.bsky.social · 5d

Can’t wait to read.

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Sanjukta Kwame Paul LT @sanjukta.bsky.social · 5d

Hello! Here is my essay (still a draft) for a symposium held in the spring at the university of chicago. (Please note that the title of the symposium was set by the law review; I chose my essay title.) Comments are welcome.

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New essay: law & the self-coordinating market idea

Essay for the University of Chicago Law Review Symposium, held in April 2025, on “Law & Economics vs. Law & Political Economy: A Debate” (draft) Law & the scm idea uchi l re…

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 6d

An important thing that is often ignored about Mamdani: he's cheerful! Taking the city's (and country's) problems seriously doesn't have to mean projecting nothing but darkness and rage. His positive vibe is an unbelievably effective way to make the tent bigger. As is fun/dorky stuff like this.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6d

New York City, I can see a future with you. And it’s one we can afford.

Our new ad just aired during The Golden Bachelor.

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Daniel Hanley @danielahanley.bsky.social · 6d

Can’t wait to read. Congratulations.

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Erik Peinert @erikpeinert.bsky.social · Aug 11

My book is out today! Read my stuff! academic.oup.com/book/60584?l...
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The book looks at the long-run evolution of policy around monopoly and competition in the US and France over the 20th century, using extensive archival research to track the main policy actors who changed it at key moments.

Monopoly Politics: Competition and Learning in the Evolution of Policy Regimes

Abstract. Motivated by the contemporary extremes of monopoly power in the United States and globally, this book uses an in-depth comparison of the United S

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The Capitol Forum @capitolforum.bsky.social · 7d

AELP’s Katie Van Dyck says competitors don't need to directly communicate to collude.
“It doesn’t have to be the old all defendants get in a smoke-filled room... They’re using the same tool collectively to set prices and it is upending traditional ideas of supply and demand.”

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The Capitol Forum @capitolforum.bsky.social · 7d

The Capitol Forum's 2025 Tech Conference has begun!

Elizabeth Odette, the antitrust chief for the Office of the Minnesota Attorney General, delivered her keynote remarks:
"The way we look at tech has evolved and continues to evolve," she said. "State Attorneys General are ready. Are you?"

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 9d

Fortune writes an entire story about Sinclair's effort to ban Kimmel "to protect communities" without making a SINGLE reference to Sinclair's long history of airing election fraud conspiracy theories and medical disinformation

Sinclair reveals that it asked ABC to create a CBS-like ombudsman while backing down on Jimmy Kimmel suspension

Sinclair said that removing Kimmel was free speech itself and it’s “inconsistent to champion free speech while demanding that broadcasters air specific content.”

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Michelle Nie @michellenie.bsky.social · 11d

Great article by @megafreda.bsky.social! Thanks for the shoutout for my cloud work w/ @openmarkets.bsky.social (w/ @maxvonthun.bsky.social and @danielahanley.bsky.social)

Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 12d

The European Commission is weighing whether the Digital Markets Act adequately covers integrated AI or if explicit inclusion is needed. Tech Policy Press fellow
@megafreda.bsky.social explores the growing push to bring these systems firmly under its scope.

Will the EU Designate AI Under the Digital Markets Act? | TechPolicy.Press

Megan Kirkwood unpacks the growing momentum to bring integrated AI applications under the scope of Europe's Digital Markets Act.

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Daniel Hanley @danielahanley.bsky.social · 11d

Gonna tap this sign. www.thesling.org/antitrust-li...

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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 11d

If “caution” means allowing a defendant’s illegal behavior to persist, it defeats the purpose of finding liability in the first place and undermines the law enforcement function of antitrust law.

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Appraising the Google Search Antitrust Remedies - ProMarket

Erik Hovenkamp and A. Douglas Melamed discuss what Judge Amit Mehta got right and wrong in his remedy decision in the Google Search antitrust case.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 11d

They really act like the president is a king. But only if that president is a Republican.

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 11d

Mainstream economics continues to rely on Newtonian mathematics — using calculus to optimise, subject to constraints, an approach not suited to understanding macroeconomics or human behavior.

Nice shoutout to Vela Velupillai, my former professor at The New School

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Basel Musharbash @basel.bsky.social · 14d

Come work with me, pals! #hiring

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Eleanor Tyler @eleanortyler.bsky.social · 15d

Welp, that’s 90 years of precedent down the tubes.

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15d

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 15d

The Court is overruling federal laws, its own precedent, and lower court decisions, on the emergency docket which, quite simply, real courts do not do.

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Daniel Hanley @danielahanley.bsky.social · 15d

Remember, this decision isn’t about POTUS’s authority to remove officials for poor performance or the ability to enact the executive’s agenda.

Instead, this decision is about whether dissent should exist at all in our regulatory system. SCOTUS effectively says it shouldn’t.

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15d

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.com · 16d

The Social Security and Medicare Funding Problems Are Real

And Congress keeps making them worse with a budget process that’s broken.

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The Social Security and Medicare Funding Problems Are Real

America faces looming insolvency in Social Security and Medicare as Congress worsens the debt with broken budget politics.

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