The pieces in this volume draw on the lessons of the past to set out how competition rules might deal with this new set of concerns, in various jurisdictions around the world. Each one draws on general themes, yet nevertheless addresses specific aspects of the contemporary debate. Much of today's antitrust discussion concerns the businesses run by large companies such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. Each has significant share in...

Los delitos que más llaman la atención cuando nos aproximamos al derecho penal son los clásicos crímenes de sangre, como homicidio y lesiones; los relativos a la libertad, especialmente sexual; al honor, como es el caso de la difamación; y al patrimonio, es decir robo y hurto. Sin embargo, existen otros que en las últimas décadas han cobrado gran notoriedad entre los estudiosos del derecho penal. Estos causan gran impacto social debido a las...

This book explores the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Ohio et al. v. American Express, and the preceding litigation, for the treatment of multisided platforms under U.S. antitrust law. It is based on a series of articles that the authors wrote (either jointly or individually), leading up to and in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's decision. The authors consider that the Supreme Court ruling provides valuable guidance for antitrust...

A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media Corporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies (where sellers have excessive power over buyers) or monopsonies (where buyers hold the whip hand over sellers)-or both. In Chokepoint Capitalism, scholar Rebecca Giblin and writer and activist...

This volume contains the papers presented at the annual Concurrences Journal conference held on 22 February 2013 at the French Parliament. After a key note paper from Commissionner Joaquin Almunia on the state of competition policy enforcement in the EU in 2013, the papers adress four main issues : • Opening competition in protected sectors: Should new entrants be protected? • Personal data: Will competition law collide with privacy? • Private...

This book, Media Markets and Competition Law: Multinational Perspectives, published by Competition Policy International, in partnership with the Antitrust & Public Policy Review (formerly, Italian Antitrust Review), is a selection of 14 brief essays designed to provide a multinational perspective on the current state, and future, of competition law in media markets. This book builds on the contributions made for the Jevons Institute Colloquium on...

From the man who coined the term "net neutrality," author of The Master Switch and The Attention Merchants, comes a warning about the dangers of excessive corporate and industrial concentration for our economic and political future. We live in an age of extreme corporate concentration, in which global industries are controlled by just a few giant firms -- big banks, big pharma, and big tech, just to name a few. But concern over what Louis Brandeis...

A New York Times–bestselling author's "superbly reported" account of the dismantling of the world's largest corporation (The Washington Post). Written by the two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Ghost Wars and Private Empire, The Deal of the Century chronicles the decade-long war for control of AT&T. When the US Department of Justice brought an antitrust lawsuit against AT&T in 1974, the telecommunications giant held a monopoly on phone...

"An exploration of antitrust laws and their enforcement, and of the importance of antitrust for the American people"--