In October 2020 the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an antitrust suit against Google. It is an alleged monopolization (Sherman Act, Sec. 2) case. In this paper I lay out the main issues in the case and raise an intriguing possibility

Antitrust policy in the U.S. has recently gained an unusual amount of media attention. There are critics who have argued that a major overhaul of antitrust policy is needed. This paper argues that instead there are some important but more modest changes that could go a long way toward...

Antitrust discussions in the U.S. have a long tradition of describing intellectual property (IP) – primarily patents and copyrights – in unqualified terms of “monopoly”. Although there have been substantial efforts over the past two decades to pull back from this automatic association,...