Posner, Eric A. How Antitrust Failed Workers

How Digital Economics Revises Antitrust Thinking.PDF

1 Antitrust thinking and enforcement have traditionally been firmly grounded in conventional economic models of monopoly and oligopoly market structures, all fully and inevitably constrained by the " laws " of demand and decreasing returns. The new economics of " digits, " encompassing those goods (like software, books, and music) that are capable of being reduced to 1's and 0's (meaning electr...

Hansae Vietnam's garment factory: Latest example of how corporate social responsibility has failed to protect workers.

Can outsourcing boost employment for low - skilled workers ? Eric Simonson

As the world has flattened, some forms of services have become easily traded across geographies, cultures, and cost structures. Many countries—most notably India and the Philippines— have accelerated their economic growth through thriving information technology (IT) and business process services exports. The outsourced1 market for global information technology and business process services is $...

How Analytic Philosophy Has Failed Cognitive Science

We analytic philosophers have signally failed our colleagues in cognitive science. We have done that by not sharing central lessons about the nature of concepts, concept-use, and conceptual content that have been entrusted to our care and feeding for more than a century. I take it that analytic philosophy began with the birth of the new logic that Gottlob Frege introduced in his seminal 1879 Be...

Why (and How) Fairness Matters at the IP/Antitrust Interface