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- Antitrust in the Digital Age: A Tale of Two Agencies - American Affairs Journal2 savers
- The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite – The Scholar's Stage8 savers
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if those freedoms can be revoked at the whim of another, they do not have republican freedom.
Problems against Symptoms: Economic Democracy and Inequality – Items“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
Problems against Symptoms: Economic Democracy and Inequality – Itemsi.e. antitrust decisions based on the identity of the specific actors vs. based on some coherent underlying ideology.
Reacting to Baker's (2019) "Preventing the Political Misuse of Antitrust"“By what metric do we identify firms with too much political power, as distinct from economic power? Is political power indicated by aggregate revenue? Employment? Investment? … These are thorny questions more likely to inspire rancor and division than reform” (60-61).
Reacting to Baker's (2019) "Preventing the Political Misuse of Antitrust"Baker’s argument here essentially boils down to the standard case for moderation: that the path is clearer and more likely to “work” given the existing system
Reacting to Baker's (2019) "Preventing the Political Misuse of Antitrust"Third, Baker raises practical concerns about how a more politicized antitrust would work in practice.
Reacting to Baker's (2019) "Preventing the Political Misuse of Antitrust"tend to emphasize the political consequences of concentrated economic power as a motivation for stricter antitrust enforcement. The basic idea is that excessive economic power might be problematic on account of its effects on the political process and democracy.
Reacting to Baker's (2019) "Preventing the Political Misuse of Antitrust"Rather than pegging competition to a narrow set of outcomes, this approach would examine the competitive process itself
Yale Law Journal - Amazon’s Antitrust Paradoxurthermore, Google and Apple are teaming up again to integrate Google Gemini—its AI functions—in all of Apple’s devices
Antitrust in the Digital Age: A Tale of Two Agencies - American Affairs JournalFor instance, Google is a significant player in the AI race.
Antitrust in the Digital Age: A Tale of Two Agencies - American Affairs JournalIt’s becoming increasingly evident that the DOJ’s Borkian scalpel is more effective than the FTC’s Brandeisian hammer to address concerns surrounding Big Tech concentration
Antitrust in the Digital Age: A Tale of Two Agencies - American Affairs JournalBecause of the FTC’s poorly structured briefs
Antitrust in the Digital Age: A Tale of Two Agencies - American Affairs JournalTo ensure that it did not run afoul of antitrust scrutiny, Microsoft voluntarily offered to enter into a consent decree with the FTC
Antitrust in the Digital Age: A Tale of Two Agencies - American Affairs Journalwhen you buy an iPhone, it isn’t yours; according to Apple, it’s Apple’s
Antitrust in the Digital Age: A Tale of Two Agencies - American Affairs Journalhat’s more, Google has filed a motion for a judge to either grant a new trial or overturn the jury decision, which could completely upend this victory.
Antitrust in the Digital Age: A Tale of Two Agencies - American Affairs JournalIt goes back to market definition.
Antitrust in the Digital Age: A Tale of Two Agencies - American Affairs JournalThese views have led to an overall laxity in antitrust enforcement, because non-price harms, such as the ones levied against Google’s Search or Apple’s anticompetitive actions in its App Store, are difficult to quantify.
Antitrust in the Digital Age: A Tale of Two Agencies - American Affairs Journalhe protection of competition,
Antitrust in the Digital Age: A Tale of Two Agencies - American Affairs Journalsuch as the political or societal implications of any particular firm’s action or size.
Antitrust in the Digital Age: A Tale of Two Agencies - American Affairs JournalThe FTC, by contrast, is challenging those very theories; it has taken its position among the avant-garde of legal theorists who aim to refocus antitrust enforcement to promote competitors.
Antitrust in the Digital Age: A Tale of Two Agencies - American Affairs JournalAlthough the DOJ and the FTC seem to be addressing the same issue—growing concentration in tech markets—they have taken two very different approaches. The DOJ leverages more traditional and straightforward legal theories—such as a focus on consumer welfare, market efficiencies, and price—to make its cases against Google and Apple. The FTC, by contrast, is challenging those very theories; it has taken its position among the avant-garde of legal theorists who aim to refocus antitrust enforcement to promote competitors.
Antitrust in the Digital Age: A Tale of Two Agencies - American Affairs JournalThe historian and biographer extends this backwards in time. Now youth find models of honor not only among the living but among dead. To study the great men of a community’s past is to study what greatness means in that community. That I think is half the purpose of these biographies of Roosevelt and Rockefeller, Feynman and Oppenheimer, Licklider and Noyce, Thiel and Musk. These books are an education in an ethos. Such is the paıdeía of the technologists.
The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite – The Scholar's StageThere is an implicit “great man” (or “great team”) theory of history behind the vague tech canon.
The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite – The Scholar's StageWashington functionaries simply do not live a life of the mind.
The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite – The Scholar's StageHe likes concepts that force him to puzzle and ponder.
The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite – The Scholar's Stagethey code, they build, disrupt, they invent, they conquer
The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite – The Scholar's Stagee technologists of Silicon Valley do not believe in authority. They merrily ignore credentials, discount expertise, and rebel against everything settled and staid. There is a charming arrogance to their attitude.
The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite – The Scholar's Stagehe operatives and the media men of DC are of a different species. They will freely talk of anything, regardless of how much they know about it.
The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite – The Scholar's StageSecond, one must assume that paıdeía, which is to say, education and moral formation in the broadest and most comprehensive sense, is more important than anything else in deciding the character of a particular polıteía.
The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite – The Scholar's Stagearting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how t
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