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Breaking News: Facebook is planning to go toe-to-toe with Google, challenging its supremacy in Internet search. Or maybe not. Facebook is certainly hinting at a major foray into search, which is enough to keep the media wheels spinning. But the company may have nothing more in mind than some needed tweaks … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Facebook, Google, IBM, Joseph Schumpeter, Microsoft | Category: Antitrust |
 Leave a commentWhen you think about it, the match was inevitable. Washington needs Facebook – and Facebook needs Washington. Start at the back end. President Obama hosted a town hall meeting on Facebook today because there is probably no more effective way to attract (positive) attention from under-forty-somethings. No suprises there. What may … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, National Recovery Administration | Category: Political Economy |
Leave a commentWe think (as does virtually everybody else) that Google is a fantastic company, a force for innovation that has generated enormous benefits for Internet users even as it earned a ton of money for shareholders. But we don’t think Google is some sort of saint of capitalism–a firm that can … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Google, Ronald Coase | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
One commentRemember when Microsoft appeared to be on track to dominate our waking hours at work (Windows, Office) and at play (Xbox, Internet Explorer, MSN)? Seems like a quaint memory now — though, in the long-standing tradition of refighting the last war, as recently as December the European competition authority was … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: AdMob, Antitrust, DoubleClick, Facebook, FTC, Google, Microsoft | Category: Competition Policy |
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Professor Dieter Helm (Oxford) is a very fine fly fisherman, and an even better economist. If you haven’t done so, take a look at his new book “The Carbon Crunch: How We Are Getting Climate Change Wrong — and How to Fix It” for a bit of unconventional wisdom. He argues that politicians and the general public have not shown any real interest in addressing climate change. Helm argues that places like Europe should focus on setting a price for carbon that would cover consumption (and not just production), and that fracking could be a good “bridge” technology for reducing consumption of coal. The book is readable and insightful for those interested in the inside track on climate policy. 
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