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The Constitution of Innovation: A New European Renaissance

An academic paper examining Europe's innovation challenges and proposing a constitutional framework for economic renaissance.

constitutionofinnovation.eu

Decline is a choice, not a fate. This week, Luis Garicano @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy and Bengt Holmström (MIT), we launched The Constitution of Innovation - a a new European renaissance. We make 6 proposals. Read them at constitutionofinnovation.eu #Europe #Innovation 1/6

The Constitution of Innovation: A New European Renaissance

An academic paper examining Europe's innovation challenges and proposing a constitutional framework for economic renaissance.

constitutionofinnovation.eu

My latest paper explains why the US v Google case identified monopoly power on the wrong side of the bargaining table. Comments welcome 🙏 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This is so uplifting. There are so many strong symbols to celebrate behind the award: democracy, individual freedom, free markets, and institutions like Nobel that remain independent from political pressure.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 10mo ago

NEW: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize.

Am conducting a survey: what did the digital economy break? - local journalism - information trustworthiness - … Please help me complete

Hey students from Sweden 🇸🇪: here you can find information for three full scholarships to come to study international security at the Hertie School (@hertieschool.bsky.social, @hertiesecurity.bsky.social) in Berlin. www.hertie-school.org/en/study/fun...

Ax:son Johnson Scholarship

This scholarship is for applicants from Sweden with a demonstrated interest in international security and German-Swedish relations.

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Our professor @competitionprof.bsky.social quoted in Politico Europe on the landmark ASML–Mistral deal and its implications for European tech sovereignty 🇪🇺💻 www.politico.eu/article/asml...

ASML-Mistral is Europe’s dream tech tie-up. Can it deliver?

Two tech champions face the daunting task of keeping Europe on the AI map.

politico.eu

The only value of a university is structural, not substantive. Very nice piece from former @eui-eu.bsky.social law professor Dennis Patterson on academic neutrality www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

How to save the American university

As Trump threatens funding and public trust plummets, US schools are in the fight of a lifetime. This is how they can survive – with their souls intact

theguardian.com

It’s that time to repost “understanding market power” - a full guide to the tricky but essential economics behind antitrust law. If you teach or study antitrust this fall, feel free to use it. Feedback is very welcome to help me improve the next version papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Coup de foudre. Le sublime atteint sous la plume de l’empereur Hadrien. Ne naît-on littérairement qu’après sa première rencontre avec Marguerite Yourcenar?

Guess who has bargaining power here.

One day against the DMA, the next one against. It’s like his support to Trump. At least Musk is consistent in inconsistency 😁.

Stanley Pignal@spignal.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Ah the old "I want small government, but please make it regulate businesses that aren't nice to me" arguments. Elon Musk seems to be arguing big digital businesses should have a "fairness" obligation -- this is the very core of EU laws he blasts so frequently on.ft.com/4lozXiH

Check out today’s exhibit on misinformation: @economist.com subtitle suggesting a baseline of irrelevance at the EUI.

Simon Hix@simonhix.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Good to see a piece about the EUI in The Economist. But this is a hatched job, with little resemblance to reality. Charlemagne is usually excellent, so this is odd. Can only think that @spignal.bsky.social talked to people who don't really know what's going on. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

Debate.

Encouraging to see Brussels push back on political interference in legitimate bank M&A. Less ideal that consolidation is unfolding along national lines. The big question: will stronger national champions finally unlock real cross-border banking in the EU?

Can’t be true! Legal scholars claim Amazon dominates without rivals. Economists claim algorithms collude. When theory fails to match reality… ignore reality?

Big data, big power … big what exactly? Was a delight to discuss with @ivanenadic.bsky.social. Looking fwd to our next coffee.

European University Institute@eui-eu.bsky.social · last yr.

Big data, big money... big trouble? 💱 In the latest #EUIUpFront, @competitionprof.bsky.social, Head of the @eui-law.bsky.social, & ‪@ivanenadic.bsky.social‬, @eui-schuman.bsky.social Research Fellow, discuss the shifting balance of power between tech giants & the state. 📹 Watch: buff.ly/a6gdlPG

As @jeffjarvis.bsky.social might say: blaming the decades-old collapse of local journalism on one company - no matter how big - is grotesque. Correlation isn’t causation, even if you’ve got a Nobel Prize.

The legal illnesses of the EU surface from this 🔥 thread by @lugaricano 1️⃣ Integration through law bureaucratised Europe breaking our ability to build 2️⃣ Infatuation w/ a European 3rd way led to dismiss existing solutions that scale works across energy, health, digital, …

Luis Garicano@lugaricano.bsky.social · last yr.

This Draghi piece is a quiet indictment on the @EUCommission's failure on its core Treaty mandate: "establishing the internal market" & ensuring "free movement of goods, persons, services and capital." His facts are devastating. A thread summarizing them and drawing some consequences. 1/

The antitrust cases in @FTC v Meta and US v Google are strong examples of a phenomenon known in economics as 'time inconsistency'. What seems like efficient correction today may lead to unintended economic distortions tomorrow. A thread 🧵1/n.

Quick puzzle on the US v Google remedy trial. Press coverage suggests the Government's focus is as much punitive/deterrent as restorative. So why is the Gov pushing for a breakup? From a legal standpoint, there are better options than breakups for punishment or compensation 1/n

@competitionprof.bsky.social asks - would George Stigler approve of regulating big tech? See Stigler's foundational paper 👇 www.jstor.org/stable/3003160 #StiglerAntitrust25

Interesting exhibition in DC.

Interesting new GenAI feature that Meta rolled out on WhatsApp. As I wrote in my 2020 book, winner-takes-most dynamics in digital often arise from a process of competition *for* the best User Interface (UI) #AI 1/n

Apparently, if you want an LLM trained on the corpus of my writing and research, Meta is the one for you.

To sum it up: Elon said only morons buy jet-fighters, Andreessen doubled down on it, Shyam Shankar wrote First Breakfast & the 18 thesis to break the oligopoly of Military-Industrial Complex, and in the end Boeing will build the next jet-fighter. www.defensenews.com/air/2025/03/...

Boeing wins contract for NGAD fighter jet, dubbed F-47

The Air Force said Boeing's F-47 will fly by the end of President Trump's administration.

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FTC Nominee Mark Meador Pledges to Focus on Tech, Noncompete Agreements

Mark Meador, President Donald Trump’s nominee to fill the third Republican seat on the five-member Federal Trade Commission, told a Senate panel the agency should focus on the tech industry and the ab...

bloomberg.com

Library access not working 😢. Can someone help? I want to read Majone 1. Regulatory federalism in the European Community 2. Europe as the Would-be World Power: The EU at Fifty 3. Federation, confederation, and mixed government: A EU-US comparison. 🙏 tons for any help.

📖 Our article with @MarcoAlmada on the AI Act is now available at the Common Market Law Review! "The EU AI Act: Between the rock of product safety and the hard place of fundamental rights" 🎸 gives an intro to the Act's provisions and regulatory logics papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Max Weber Fellow @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social, alumni @leticiadiezsanchez.bsky.social, Sarah Tas, Theodosia Stavroulaki, and @marcoalmada.com, as well as Prof. @competitionprof.bsky.social 🎓👏 📖 Read the full edition here: ➡ loom.ly/eEdfP8Q