Antitrust Chronicle® – Economics of Data

Dear Readers,

It is commonly said that “data is the new oil.” Whatever the merits of that slogan (or even whether the term ‘data’ should be pluralized), this turn of phrase informs contemporary antitrust debate, for better or worse. Many of the controversies that illuminate modern day antitrust debate are redolent of the manner in which the ‘oil boom’ of the early 20^th century fueled the genesis of what we in contemporary society now term ‘antitrust’ in the U.S., the EU, and thro