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Chokepoint Capitalism

by Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow ...

A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big MediaCorporate 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 ... Read more

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A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big MediaCorporate 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
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The Internet Con

How to Seize the Means of Computation

by Cory Doctorow ...

When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us safe, but those were prison walls.The platforms locked us into their systems and made us easy pickings, ripe for extaction. Twitter, Facebook and other Big Tech platforms hard to leave by design. They hold hostage the people we love, the communities that matter to us, the ... Read more

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When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us safe, but those were prison walls.The platforms locked us into their systems and made us easy pickings, ripe for extaction. Twitter, Facebook and other Big Tech platforms hard to leave by design. They hold hostage the people we love, the communities that matter to us, the
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The Power of Awareness

by Neville ...

Becoming aware of . . . one great emotion permeates your being. You live with a perpetual feeling of reverence. The knowledge that your creator is the very self of yourself and never would have made you had he not loved you must fill your heart with devotion, yes, with adoration. One knowing glimpse of the world about you at any single instant of time is sufficient to fill you with profound awe ... Read more

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Becoming aware of . . . one great emotion permeates your being. You live with a perpetual feeling of reverence. The knowledge that your creator is the very self of yourself and never would have made you had he not loved you must fill your heart with devotion, yes, with adoration. One knowing glimpse of the world about you at any single instant of time is sufficient to fill you with profound awe
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Bent Coppers

by Graeme McLagan ...

The inside story of a secret unit that has worked under cover to expose corruption in the Metropolitan Police since the early 1990s - written by Graeme McLagan, contributor to THE REAL LINE OF DUTY.'If you want a book that is genuinely 'unputdownable' read BENT COPPERS' Johnny Vaughan, THE SUN'A very engaging read - the outrageous nature of bent cops' behaviour guarantees that' SUNDAY ... Read more

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The inside story of a secret unit that has worked under cover to expose corruption in the Metropolitan Police since the early 1990s - written by Graeme McLagan, contributor to THE REAL LINE OF DUTY.'If you want a book that is genuinely 'unputdownable' read BENT COPPERS' Johnny Vaughan, THE SUN'A very engaging read - the outrageous nature of bent cops' behaviour guarantees that' SUNDAY
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The Deal of the Century

The Breakup of AT&T

by Steve Coll ...

**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 ... Read more

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**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
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Regulating Big Tech

Policy Responses to Digital Dominance

Edited by Martin Moore, Damian Tambini ...

Selected chapters from this book are published open access and free to read or download from Oxford Scholarship Online, https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/. Since Digital Dominance was published in 2018, a global consensus has emerged that technology platforms should be regulated. Governments from the United States to Australia have sought to reduce the power of these platforms and ... Read more

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Selected chapters from this book are published open access and free to read or download from Oxford Scholarship Online, https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/. Since Digital Dominance was published in 2018, a global consensus has emerged that technology platforms should be regulated. Governments from the United States to Australia have sought to reduce the power of these platforms and
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Virtual Competition

The Promise and Perils of the Algorithm-Driven Economy

by Ariel Ezrachi, Maurice E. Stucke ...

“A fascinating book about how platform internet companies (Amazon, Facebook, and so on) are changing the norms of economic competition.”—Fast CompanyShoppers with a bargain-hunting impulse and internet access can find a universe of products at their fingertips. But is there a dark side to internet commerce? This thought-provoking exposé invites us to explore how sophisticated algorithms and data ... Read more

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“A fascinating book about how platform internet companies (Amazon, Facebook, and so on) are changing the norms of economic competition.”—Fast CompanyShoppers with a bargain-hunting impulse and internet access can find a universe of products at their fingertips. But is there a dark side to internet commerce? This thought-provoking exposé invites us to explore how sophisticated algorithms and data
... Read more
Australian Cartel Regulation

Law, Policy and Practice in an International Context

by Caron Beaton-Wells, Brent Fisse ...

Cartel regulation is a prime element of competition policy and an essential means of minimising the adverse effects of cartel activity on economic welfare. However, effective cartel regulation poses distinct challenges for governments, competition authorities and commentators across the globe. In Australian Cartel Regulation, leading competition law experts Caron Beaton-Wells and Brent Fisse ... Read more

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Cartel regulation is a prime element of competition policy and an essential means of minimising the adverse effects of cartel activity on economic welfare. However, effective cartel regulation poses distinct challenges for governments, competition authorities and commentators across the globe. In Australian Cartel Regulation, leading competition law experts Caron Beaton-Wells and Brent Fisse
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Antitrust Procedural Fairness

Edited by D. Daniel Sokol, Andrew T. Guzman ...

Much of antitrust law scholarship has focused on substantive legal issues - theories of harm and changing law and policy. Surprisingly, there has been very little work that is comparative, on a fundamental element that is a critical building block to effective policy - procedural fairness. Procedural fairness encompasses issues of transparency and due process. Procedural fairness has been an ... Read more

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Much of antitrust law scholarship has focused on substantive legal issues - theories of harm and changing law and policy. Surprisingly, there has been very little work that is comparative, on a fundamental element that is a critical building block to effective policy - procedural fairness. Procedural fairness encompasses issues of transparency and due process. Procedural fairness has been an
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The Antitrust Paradigm

Restoring a Competitive Economy

by Jonathan B. Baker ...

A new and urgently needed guide to making the American economy more competitive at a time when tech giants have amassed vast market power.The U.S. economy is growing less competitive. Large businesses increasingly profit by taking advantage of their customers and suppliers. These firms can also use sophisticated pricing algorithms and customer data to secure substantial and persistent advantages ... Read more

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A new and urgently needed guide to making the American economy more competitive at a time when tech giants have amassed vast market power.The U.S. economy is growing less competitive. Large businesses increasingly profit by taking advantage of their customers and suppliers. These firms can also use sophisticated pricing algorithms and customer data to secure substantial and persistent advantages
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United States v. Apple

Competition in America

by Chris Sagers ...

One of the most-followed antitrust cases of recent times—United States v. Apple—reveals an often-missed truth: what Americans most fear is competition itself.In 2012 the Department of Justice accused Apple and five book publishers of conspiring to fix ebook prices. The evidence overwhelmingly showed an unadorned price-fixing conspiracy that cost consumers hundreds of millions of dollars. Yet ... Read more

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One of the most-followed antitrust cases of recent times—United States v. Apple—reveals an often-missed truth: what Americans most fear is competition itself.In 2012 the Department of Justice accused Apple and five book publishers of conspiring to fix ebook prices. The evidence overwhelmingly showed an unadorned price-fixing conspiracy that cost consumers hundreds of millions of dollars. Yet
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Social Trust

Edited by Kevin Vallier, Michael Weber ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
With increasingly divergent views and commitments, and an all-or-nothing mindset in political life, it can seem hard to sustain the level of trust in other members of our society necessary to ensure our most basic institutions work. This book features interdisciplinary perspectives on social trust. The contributors address four main topics related to social trust. The first topic is empirical and ... Read more

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With increasingly divergent views and commitments, and an all-or-nothing mindset in political life, it can seem hard to sustain the level of trust in other members of our society necessary to ensure our most basic institutions work. This book features interdisciplinary perspectives on social trust. The contributors address four main topics related to social trust. The first topic is empirical and
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Telecommunications Law and Regulation

by Ian Walden ...

Since the last edition of the book was published, there have been a number of important developments in the telecommunications industry, for example the operational separation of BT in the UK, which may prove a model for the rest of Europe in dealing with incumbent operators, and the debate over "network neutrality" in the US, which is dominating the roll-out of the infrastructure ... Read more

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Since the last edition of the book was published, there have been a number of important developments in the telecommunications industry, for example the operational separation of BT in the UK, which may prove a model for the rest of Europe in dealing with incumbent operators, and the debate over "network neutrality" in the US, which is dominating the roll-out of the infrastructure
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The Evolution of Competition Law in New Zealand

by Rex Ahdar ...

The modern era of competition law in New Zealand began with the Commerce Act 1986. Since then, a steady and impressive corpus of case law had traversed all the usual major areas of antitrust law: cartels, resale price maintenance, exclusive dealing, tying, group boycotts, monopolization, mergers and acquisitions, exempted sectors, and the role of economic evidence. This volume explains the ... Read more

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The modern era of competition law in New Zealand began with the Commerce Act 1986. Since then, a steady and impressive corpus of case law had traversed all the usual major areas of antitrust law: cartels, resale price maintenance, exclusive dealing, tying, group boycotts, monopolization, mergers and acquisitions, exempted sectors, and the role of economic evidence. This volume explains the
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The Design of Competition Law Institutions

Global Norms, Local Choices

Edited by Eleanor M Fox, Michael J Trebilcock ...

Series series Law And Global Governance
Competition (or antitrust) law is national law. More than 120 jurisdictions have adopted their own competition law. Is there a need for convergence of the competition law systems of the world? Much effort has been devoted to nudging substantive law convergence in the absence of an international law of competition. But it is widely acknowledged that institutions play as great a role as substantive ... Read more

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Competition (or antitrust) law is national law. More than 120 jurisdictions have adopted their own competition law. Is there a need for convergence of the competition law systems of the world? Much effort has been devoted to nudging substantive law convergence in the absence of an international law of competition. But it is widely acknowledged that institutions play as great a role as substantive
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Code des juridictions financières

Partie réglementaire - Livre IV : Le conseil des prélèvements obligatoires (droit français)

by Various ...

Découvrez le Code des juridictions financières, Partie réglementaire - Livre IV : Le conseil des prélèvements obligatoires, un ouvrage incontournable pour les professionnels du droit. Ce livre, conçu avec rigueur et précision, offre une compilation exhaustive des dispositions réglementaires et des textes officiels relatifs au conseil des prélèvements obligatoires. Plongez dans un univers où la ... Read more

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Découvrez le Code des juridictions financières, Partie réglementaire - Livre IV : Le conseil des prélèvements obligatoires, un ouvrage incontournable pour les professionnels du droit. Ce livre, conçu avec rigueur et précision, offre une compilation exhaustive des dispositions réglementaires et des textes officiels relatifs au conseil des prélèvements obligatoires. Plongez dans un univers où la
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Droit européen de la concurrence

Ententes et abus de position dominante

by David Bosco, Catherine Prieto ...

Series series Collection droit de l'Union européenne - Manuels
La prohibition des ententes et des abus de position dominante a été le socle historique qui a permis, dans la construction européenne, d’affirmer une culture de concurrence résolument tournée vers la protection du bien-être collectif.Qu’il s’agisse d’ententes secrètes, de techniques contractuelles pernicieuses, d’abus par pratiques d’éviction de concurrents méritants ou d’exploitations de rente de ... Read more

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La prohibition des ententes et des abus de position dominante a été le socle historique qui a permis, dans la construction européenne, d’affirmer une culture de concurrence résolument tournée vers la protection du bien-être collectif.Qu’il s’agisse d’ententes secrètes, de techniques contractuelles pernicieuses, d’abus par pratiques d’éviction de concurrents méritants ou d’exploitations de rente de
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Toward an Inframarginal Revolution

Redistributing the Gains from Trade

Edited by Ramsi A. Woodcock ...

Over the past fifteen years, there has been a growing interest in altering legal rules to redistribute wealth, with many scholars believing that neoclassical economic theory is biased against redistribution. Yet a growing number of progressive scholars are pushing back against this view. Toward an Inframarginal Revolution offers a fresh perspective on the redistribution of wealth by legal scholars ... Read more

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Over the past fifteen years, there has been a growing interest in altering legal rules to redistribute wealth, with many scholars believing that neoclassical economic theory is biased against redistribution. Yet a growing number of progressive scholars are pushing back against this view. Toward an Inframarginal Revolution offers a fresh perspective on the redistribution of wealth by legal scholars
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The Cambridge Handbook of Labor in Competition Law

Edited by Sanjukta Paul, Shae McCrystal, Ewan McGaughey ...

Series series Cambridge Law Handbooks
As scholars and policymakers around the world seek a systematic approach to the question of 'gig work,' one of its regulatory dimensions – the intersection of labor and competition law – points toward a deeper reconceptualization of the conventional legal and economic categories typically brought to bear upon it. A comparative approach to the question of gig work further reveals the variety and ... Read more

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As scholars and policymakers around the world seek a systematic approach to the question of 'gig work,' one of its regulatory dimensions – the intersection of labor and competition law – points toward a deeper reconceptualization of the conventional legal and economic categories typically brought to bear upon it. A comparative approach to the question of gig work further reveals the variety and
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EU Competition Law and Economics

by Damien Geradin, Dr Anne Layne-Farrar, Nicolas Petit ...

This is the first EU competition law treatise that fully integrates economic reasoning in its treatment of the decisional practice of the European Commission and the case-law of the European Court of Justice. Since the European Commission's move to a "more economic approach" to competition law reasoning and decisional practice, the use of economic argument in competition law cases has become a ... Read more

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This is the first EU competition law treatise that fully integrates economic reasoning in its treatment of the decisional practice of the European Commission and the case-law of the European Court of Justice. Since the European Commission's move to a "more economic approach" to competition law reasoning and decisional practice, the use of economic argument in competition law cases has become a
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Inovação e concorrência em operações analisadas pelo Cade

by João Felipe Achcar de Azambuja ...

"Na presente obra, João Azambuja enfrenta um tema de fronteira no direito da concorrência: o tratamento da inovação na análise de atos de concentração econômica. Trata-se de um assunto de grande relevância no cenário atual, no qual inovações tecnológicas têm alterado os processos competitivos em diversos mercados e exigido novas perspectivas das autoridades de defesa da concorrência no mundo ... Read more

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"Na presente obra, João Azambuja enfrenta um tema de fronteira no direito da concorrência: o tratamento da inovação na análise de atos de concentração econômica. Trata-se de um assunto de grande relevância no cenário atual, no qual inovações tecnológicas têm alterado os processos competitivos em diversos mercados e exigido novas perspectivas das autoridades de defesa da concorrência no mundo
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Exclusionary Abuse after the Post Danmark I case

The Role of the Effects-Based Approach under Article 102 TFEU

Edited by Anders Jessen ...

Series series International Competition Law Series
Article 102 TFEU constitutes that a firm holding a dominant position in its market is not allowed to abuse this dominant market power through unilateral conduct. Although this provision is clearly of great importance in curbing the adverse effects of market power, it remains far from clear when dominant firms exclusionary conduct is in breach of this provision. This book presents an in-depth ... Read more

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Article 102 TFEU constitutes that a firm holding a dominant position in its market is not allowed to abuse this dominant market power through unilateral conduct. Although this provision is clearly of great importance in curbing the adverse effects of market power, it remains far from clear when dominant firms exclusionary conduct is in breach of this provision. This book presents an in-depth
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Delitos económicos, contra la administración pública y criminalidad organizada

by José Ugaz Sánchez-Moreno, Francisco Ugaz Heudebert ...

Series Book 18 - Colección Lo Esencial del Derecho
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. ... Read more

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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.
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EU Law of Competition and Trade in the Pharmaceutical Sector

Edited by Pablo Figueroa, Alejandro Guerrero ...

Series series Elgar Competition Law and Practice series
This book provides a systematic analysis of the law and practice of EU competition/antitrust law and trade regulation in the pharmaceutical sector. Authored by leading private practitioners, economists, scholars and high-profile competition enforcers, this work provides valuable insider knowledge on the application of competition law and policies to the pharmaceutical industry.Key features include ... Read more

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This book provides a systematic analysis of the law and practice of EU competition/antitrust law and trade regulation in the pharmaceutical sector. Authored by leading private practitioners, economists, scholars and high-profile competition enforcers, this work provides valuable insider knowledge on the application of competition law and policies to the pharmaceutical industry.Key features include
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