Although not a single, Mitski’s “Washing Machine Heart” ranks among her most popular songs. Its insistent drumbeat echoes the spin cycle of an old washing machine, recalling the singer’s frustration …
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When Sergio Leone shot “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” in 1966, he refused to hand the audience a clean moral. The “Good” wasn’t really good. The “Bad” looked …
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Three section leads at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) read the same viral GitHub post and reached three different conclusions. Call it a trilogue—three views, one problem, …
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Generative AI strains nearly every layer of copyright law. Policymakers have focused most on one pressure point: the use of copyrighted works to train AI models. Fitting that practice into …
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If the Digital Markets Act (DMA) is going to force open the most sensitive parts of modern smartphones, it will have to answer a basic question it has so far …
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Antitrust used to ask a simple question: are firms making consumers worse off? Increasingly, it asks a different one: are consumers making the “wrong” choices? The consumer welfare standard (CWS) …
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The Digital Markets Act (DMA) was supposed to target gatekeepers. Instead, it is chasing a market that has no gate. Last November, the European Commission opened three market investigations into …
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Big mergers make headlines. They don’t always make antitrust problems. In a previous commentary, I explored the antitrust implications of a potential acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). That uncertainty …
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Not all trade barriers are created equal. The ones that matter most do not sit at the border. They sit inside markets, shaping who can compete—and who cannot—before competition even …
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California is about to run a live-fire experiment in antitrust—and the working hypothesis appears to be that decades of case law and economic learning were optional. In January, I published …