1.1. Introduction and Overview
Contents
Overview
An introduction to the course.
Slides
Links
These are the articles mentioned in the slides:
On the California Law re: Employees vs. Contractors:
- Reason (Dec 17, 2019), “California Freelancers Suffer From Totally Predictable ‘Unintended Consequences’ of Gig Worker Protection Bill”
- SBNation (Dec 16, 2019), “California’s terrible AB5 came for me today, and I’m devastated”
- Washington Post (Dec 19, 2019), “How a law aimed at Uber and Lyft is hurting freelance writers”
- Washington Post (Sept 17, 2019), “A California bill has nationwide ramifications for the gig economy”
- Hollywood Reporter (Oct 17, 2019), “‘Everybody Is Freaking Out’: Freelance Writers Scramble to Make Sense of New California Law”
- New York Times (Dec 31, 2019), “California Wanted to Protect Uber Drivers. Now It May Hurt Freelancers.”
Antitrust:
- The Hill (Dec 27, 2019), “Antitrust should be used to break up partisan tech giants like Facebook, Google”
- Wall Street Journal (Jan 16, 2020), " The Antitrust Case Against Facebook, Google and Amazon"
- Washington Examiner (Apr 24, 2019), “Consumer doom: Both parties are pushing antitrust rules as a 2020 issue”
- Wall Street Journal (June 1, 2019), “Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation of Google”
- New York Times (Apr 22, 2019), “Is It Time to Break Up Google?”
On the Rise of Market Concentration
- Brookings (May 21, 2019), “The rise of corporate market power”
- The Irish Times (Apr 19, 2016), “Paul Krugman: Monopoly capitalism is killing US economy”
- The Nation (Oct 23, 2017), “America Has a Monopoly Problem—and It’s Huge”
On “Hipster Antitrust”