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Tech monopoly / Herbert Hovenkamp.
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Hovenkamp, Herbert, 1948- author.
- Series:
- MIT Press essential knowledge series.
- The MIT Press essential knowledge series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antitrust law.
- Big data.
- Electronic commerce--Law and legislation.
- Electronic commerce.
- Internet marketing--Law and legislation.
- Internet marketing.
- Data protection--Law and legislation.
- Data protection.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 sound file (4 hr., 18 min.))
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Rego Park : Ascent Audio, 2024.
- [Place of publication not identified] : Ascent Audio, 2024.
- System Details:
- audio file
- Summary:
- In recent years, the astronomical rise of tech giants like Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft has been criticized as anticompetitive, and many have wondered if antitrust law can help protect workers and consumers. In Tech Monopoly, Herbert Hovenkamp explores competition problems in a wide range of high-tech firms-from those that sell purely digital products, such as video streaming, search, software, or email services, to others that sell more traditional "tactile" products, such as hardware, clothing, groceries, or rides. He offers a realistic look at the powers and limitations of antitrust law in tech markets with an assessment that is as comprehensive as it is accessible. After a general introduction to antitrust law, Tech Monopoly considers how competitive harm should be assessed in these markets. Then Hovenkamp looks at the role of large digital platforms, including Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft, and considers whether their size alone is an antitrust problem or if the concern should be limited to market power. Finally, the author addresses the very difficult problem of remedies. Should we "break up" big tech, and if so, how? What kind of breakup of these firms would make users or others better off? And if breakups are not the only possible antitrust fix, are there more effective and less disruptive alternatives?
- Participant:
- Narrator: Tristan Morris.
- Notes:
- Unabridged.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 1-66373-625-1
- OCLC:
- 1452301686
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