FTC v. Lundbeck: Is Anything in Antitrust Obvious, Like, Ever?

Is Anything Ever New? Considering Emergence

This brief essay reviews an approach to defining and then detecting the emergence of complexity in nonlinear processes. It is, in fact, a synopsis of Reference [1] that leaves out the technical details in an attempt to clarify the motivations behind the approach. The central puzzle addressed is how we as scientists — or, for that matter, how adaptive agents evolving in populations — ever “disco...

Antitrust Formalism Is Dead! Long Live Antitrust Formalism! Some Implications of American Needle v. NFL

Introduction Few cases before the Supreme Court have been preceded by so many rival interpretations and grand predictions—from the death of modern antitrust policy to the end of professional football1—as American Needle v. National Football League.2 The Court’s decision reversed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which had held that with regard to licensing NFL intellectual prop...

Is Anything Sacred Anymore?

Whither symmetry? Antitrust analysis of intellectual property rights at the FTC and DOJ

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Is There Anything Non-classical?

It is argued that quantum logic and quantum probability theory are fascinating mathematical theories but without any relevance to our real world.