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EconWorks Podcast — 73 episodes
Why Price Fixing Is Easier to Describe Than to Prove | Cartels Ep. 2
Zillow–Redfin: Keep the Cooperation, Restore the Rivalry
How Cartels Really Work, Episode 1: What Makes Something a Cartel?
Zillow–Redfin Settled: Who Actually Won?
How Cartels Really Work, Episode 1: What Makes Something a Cartel?
The Antitrust Theory That Slept for 55 Years
What If Your AI Breaks the Antitrust Laws?
The Antitrust Theory That Slept for 55 Years
What If Your AI Breaks the Antitrust Laws?
Why Kroger–Giant Eagle Is Not Another Albertsons
Age of AI—Episode 5: How AI Changes the Work of Antitrust Economists
Zillow–Redfin: Why the FTC Tried to Win Early
Age of AI—Episode 4: Brooks' Law and the Economics of Smarter Teams
One Merger, Three Verdicts: Market Definition, Box-Office Shares, and Bargaining Power
Age of AI—Episode 3: When Messy Data Meets Machine Intelligence
One Merger, Three Answers: What Do Market Shares Really Measure?
Why Did the Egg Cartel End in a Civil Settlement?
Age of AI—Episode 2.5: The Symmetric Loop: AI Slop and the Future of Academic Research
Price Discrimination and Railroad Competition
Age of AI — Episode 2: When Models Meet Reality: AI and the Future of Economic Analysis
Age of AI — Episode 2: Can AI Test Economic Models Better Than Humans?
They Built an 87-Camera Surveillance State to Stop Cheating. It Ruined Them.
Age of AI—Episode 1: Merger Enforcement Is Changing—And AI Is Accelerating It
AI Infrastructure: Capacity, Constraints, and Competition
How a failed Silicon Valley acquisition foreshadowed today’s battles over AI, platforms, and digital gatekeepers*
The Lock-In Trap: Procurement’s Role in Creating Unbreakable Tech Monopolies
The Price of Intelligence
Why SpaceX and Tesla Aren't Really Competitors
When the Model Is the Market
Power Grids Are The New Silicon
The Deal That Almost Gave Meta Control Over AI Agents
The Subsidy Paradox — Why Cursor Sold to SpaceX
Control in AI—Episode 2: Governance and Control in AI
Are Platforms Breaking Antitrust?
Mattresses, Mergers & Vertical Power: AI Wraps Up Season 1
The $2.5 Billion Question in Pharmaceutical Antitrust
Google’s Ad Tech Empire Under the Microscope: AI Antitrust Critique
When Does Sharing Data Become the Same Thing as Fixing Prices?
The Handbag Merger That Sparked Debate: AI Critiques FTC v. Tapestry
The Texas Anesthesia Stealth Monopoly
AI Takes on the Apple App Store Market Definition Debate
AI, Antitrust, and the Court
The Dollar Seventy Two vs Ticketmaster
The Chaos of Unintended Consequences in Antitrust
Ticketmaster on Trial
Beyond the Breakup: The Reality of Competition Remedies
The Pix Tax: Analyzing the Apple vs. Brazil Antitrust Showdown
From Platform Conduct to Competitive Outcomes
Apple’s Walled Garden is Cracking: The Brazil Antitrust Standoff
The New Rules of Antitrust: How Platforms Control Competition
How the FTC unscrambled the Ottobock merger
Bundling the Ecosystem: How OS Accessibility Drives Adoption
Unscrambling the Eggs: The Rare Post-Merger Unwind
How Microsoft's OS Integration Shapes Software Competition
Broadcasters vs. Monopolies: The Antitrust Battle Over Your TV
The Feedback Loop: Visibility, Engagement, and Platform Power
The Mega-Merger Illusion: Are Consumers Actually Protected?
Examining Meta: How Algorithms Determine User
The DOJ’s New Playbook: Labor Monopsony and the UHG/Amedisys Deal
Antitrust in the Digital Age: The Fight for the Buy Box
How the DOJ Stopped the Largest Healthcare Merger in History | EconWorks
The Hidden Power of the Buy Box: How Amazon Shapes Competition video
Leverage, Not Parity: The States' Plan for Ticketmaster
Gatekeeping the Ecosystem
Why States are Suing Ticketmaster (And Why They Might Fail)
The Apple Tax: How Platform Governance Controls the App Economy
How Supply Chains Raise Prices
The End of Direct Delivery
Pre-Installed Power
Tech Defaults: US v. Google
How Supply Chain Shifts Drive Up Grocery Bills
Economics of Your Grocery Bill
The Antitrust File: Live Nation & Ticketmaster