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Rebecca Allensworth
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Rebecca Allensworth
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Antitrust professor, Vanderbilt Law School. Order my book "The Licensing Racket" at the link below!
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    Rebecca Allensworth
    @HawAllensworth
    Oct 4, 2024
    Reviewing the FTC v Amazon complaint for my new article, Long Term Consumer Welfare, I had to laugh at this.
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    Rebecca Allensworth
    @HawAllensworth
    Oct 5, 2024
    Replying to @lalasoo
    The judge, at the request of Amazon.
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    Rebecca Allensworth
    @HawAllensworth
    Oct 4, 2024
    Replying to @ShawnMusgrave
    There actually is an amended complaint that removes a lot of these redactions. ftc.gov/system/files/f…
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    Rebecca Allensworth
    @HawAllensworth
    Oct 5, 2024
    Replying to @HawAllensworth and @lalasoo
    Ok correction, the FTC. FTC filed it, then there would have been litigation over what stayed redacted between the FTC and Amazon, with the judge playing referee.
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    Rebecca Allensworth
    @HawAllensworth
    Oct 4, 2024
    Replying to @DrMJCole
    A working paper is indeed hanging around, in the sense that I'm typing up section III at home in my PJs at the moment. Should be ready for the Spring law review cycle (Feb 2025) and up on SSRN then.
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    Rebecca Allensworth
    @HawAllensworth
    Sep 8, 2023
    Google has unmistakably become lower-quality over the years for what I use it for. Reminds me of what @superwuster said about long-term monopolists in The Curse of Bigness.
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    American Economic Liberties Project
    @econliberties
    Sep 8, 2023
    "What if we had a competitive market where there was a real alt to Google that costs less in terms of attention, and was a bit more elegant to use to get to the information that I wanted?" says @HawAllensworth. "...That’s what antitrust is trying to do." marketplace.org/shows/marketpl…
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    Rebecca Allensworth
    @HawAllensworth
    Oct 6, 2024
    Replying to @HawAllensworth
    Speaking of Amazon, preorder my new book here:
    amazon.com
    The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong
    The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong
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    Rebecca Allensworth
    @HawAllensworth
    Aug 6, 2024
    Google decision hot take: When I saw Mehta list "Reduced Incentives to Invest and Innovate" as an anticompetitive effect, alongside "Foreclosure" I got a little verklempt. Is the tide finally turning?
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    Rebecca Allensworth
    @HawAllensworth
    Oct 7, 2024
    Replying to @HawAllensworth
    Yeah that’s kind of the point though. Not viable to write a book and *not* sell it on Amazon. Market power!
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    Rebecca Allensworth
    @HawAllensworth
    Jul 21, 2020
    My article for the New York Review of Books on medical licensing boards' (lacking) response to the opioid crisis is out! Moonlighting as a journalist has kept this law prof busy.
    Licensed to Pill | Rebecca Haw Allensworth
    From nybooks.com
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    Rebecca Allensworth
    @HawAllensworth
    Nov 22, 2024
    I had a blast and learned a lot from debating @profthomlambert -- Thank you, Thom, for making the trip and making our kickoff of the "Respectfully Dissent" debate series at @vanderbiltlaw a huge success!
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    Vanderbilt Law
    @vanderbiltlaw
    Nov 21, 2024
    The "Respectfully Dissent" series kicked off at Vanderbilt Law with a spirited debate on antitrust law! #VandyLaw Professor @HawAllensworth & @profthomlambert from @MizzouLaw tackled the limits of error-cost analysis, consumer welfare, & more: ow.ly/UfjY50UaoI1
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    Rebecca Allensworth
    @HawAllensworth
    Jan 18, 2021
    Check out my new piece on High Tech Exceptionalism in Antitrust -- out today in the Yale Law Journal Forum!
    yalelawjournal.org
    Yale Law Journal
    For over a century, the Yale Law Journal has been at the forefront of legal scholarship, sparking conversation and encouraging reflection among scholars and students, as well as practicing lawyers...
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    Rebecca Allensworth
    @HawAllensworth
    Feb 1, 2021
    The FTC passed up on the chance to stop the Instagram-Facebook merger in 2012. What does that mean in 2021? Nothing. @johnmarknewman and I explain why in our new piece out in the Atlantic.
    The Government Didn’t Foresee How Facebook Would Behave
    From theatlantic.com
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    Rebecca Allensworth
    @HawAllensworth
    Feb 21, 2022
    A student sent me this. I like to think Charlie was also trying to explain Ohio v. Visa.