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EconWorks Podcast — 73 episodes

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Why Price Fixing Is Easier to Describe Than to Prove | Cartels Ep. 2

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Zillow–Redfin: Keep the Cooperation, Restore the Rivalry

3

How Cartels Really Work, Episode 1: What Makes Something a Cartel?

4

Zillow–Redfin Settled: Who Actually Won?

5

How Cartels Really Work, Episode 1: What Makes Something a Cartel?

6

The Antitrust Theory That Slept for 55 Years

7

What If Your AI Breaks the Antitrust Laws?

8

The Antitrust Theory That Slept for 55 Years

9

What If Your AI Breaks the Antitrust Laws?

10

Why Kroger–Giant Eagle Is Not Another Albertsons

11

Age of AI—Episode 5: How AI Changes the Work of Antitrust Economists

12

Zillow–Redfin: Why the FTC Tried to Win Early

13

Age of AI—Episode 4: Brooks' Law and the Economics of Smarter Teams

14

One Merger, Three Verdicts: Market Definition, Box-Office Shares, and Bargaining Power

15

Age of AI—Episode 3: When Messy Data Meets Machine Intelligence

16

One Merger, Three Answers: What Do Market Shares Really Measure?

17

Why Did the Egg Cartel End in a Civil Settlement?

18

Age of AI—Episode 2.5: The Symmetric Loop: AI Slop and the Future of Academic Research

19

Price Discrimination and Railroad Competition

20

Age of AI — Episode 2: When Models Meet Reality: AI and the Future of Economic Analysis

21

Age of AI — Episode 2: Can AI Test Economic Models Better Than Humans?

22

They Built an 87-Camera Surveillance State to Stop Cheating. It Ruined Them.

23

Age of AI—Episode 1: Merger Enforcement Is Changing—And AI Is Accelerating It

24

AI Infrastructure: Capacity, Constraints, and Competition

25

How a failed Silicon Valley acquisition foreshadowed today’s battles over AI, platforms, and digital gatekeepers*

26

The Lock-In Trap: Procurement’s Role in Creating Unbreakable Tech Monopolies

27

The Price of Intelligence

28

Why SpaceX and Tesla Aren't Really Competitors

29

When the Model Is the Market

30

Power Grids Are The New Silicon

31

The Deal That Almost Gave Meta Control Over AI Agents

32

The Subsidy Paradox — Why Cursor Sold to SpaceX

33

Control in AI—Episode 2: Governance and Control in AI

34

Are Platforms Breaking Antitrust?

35

Mattresses, Mergers & Vertical Power: AI Wraps Up Season 1

36

The $2.5 Billion Question in Pharmaceutical Antitrust

37

Google’s Ad Tech Empire Under the Microscope: AI Antitrust Critique

38

When Does Sharing Data Become the Same Thing as Fixing Prices?

39

The Handbag Merger That Sparked Debate: AI Critiques FTC v. Tapestry

40

The Texas Anesthesia Stealth Monopoly

41

AI Takes on the Apple App Store Market Definition Debate

42

AI, Antitrust, and the Court

43

The Dollar Seventy Two vs Ticketmaster

44

The Chaos of Unintended Consequences in Antitrust

45

Ticketmaster on Trial

46

Beyond the Breakup: The Reality of Competition Remedies

47

The Pix Tax: Analyzing the Apple vs. Brazil Antitrust Showdown

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From Platform Conduct to Competitive Outcomes

49

Apple’s Walled Garden is Cracking: The Brazil Antitrust Standoff

50

The New Rules of Antitrust: How Platforms Control Competition

51

How the FTC unscrambled the Ottobock merger

52

Bundling the Ecosystem: How OS Accessibility Drives Adoption

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Unscrambling the Eggs: The Rare Post-Merger Unwind

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How Microsoft's OS Integration Shapes Software Competition

55

Broadcasters vs. Monopolies: The Antitrust Battle Over Your TV

56

The Feedback Loop: Visibility, Engagement, and Platform Power

57

The Mega-Merger Illusion: Are Consumers Actually Protected?

58

Examining Meta: How Algorithms Determine User

59

The DOJ’s New Playbook: Labor Monopsony and the UHG/Amedisys Deal

60

Antitrust in the Digital Age: The Fight for the Buy Box

61

How the DOJ Stopped the Largest Healthcare Merger in History | EconWorks

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The Hidden Power of the Buy Box: How Amazon Shapes Competition video

63

Leverage, Not Parity: The States' Plan for Ticketmaster

64

Gatekeeping the Ecosystem

65

Why States are Suing Ticketmaster (And Why They Might Fail)

66

The Apple Tax: How Platform Governance Controls the App Economy

67

How Supply Chains Raise Prices

68

The End of Direct Delivery

69

Pre-Installed Power

70

Tech Defaults: US v. Google

71

How Supply Chain Shifts Drive Up Grocery Bills

72

Economics of Your Grocery Bill

73

The Antitrust File: Live Nation & Ticketmaster