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This article has a ton of filler in it. The first several pages have a tiny, tiny mention of a Yale journal posting titled "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox" [1] with

This article has a ton of filler in it. The first several pages have a tiny, tiny mention of a Yale journal posting titled "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox" [1] with the rest of the first half being about the writer, various schools she's gone to, etc. Maybe I'm just too impatient but it doesn't get even close to discussing its premise until half way through the article at best. The rest of it is discussing that, according to current anti trust laws, Amazon isn't too big but when it makes acquisitions it hugely affects stock market among other things. So there may need to be new laws or thinking about dealing with large, online companies like Amazon. It's interesting but I feel like they could have gotten the same message across in just a few paragraphs and a link to the Yale journal but I digress. I've been wondering about this same topic though so it is interesting. [1] http://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-paradox http://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-paradox

bognition 9y ago
I'd highly recommend an op-ed the original author published in the ny times. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/opinion/amazon-whole-foods-jeff-bezos.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/opinion/amazon-whole-f... It's short and to the point.
- jshap70 9y ago
  here's the non-mobile link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/opinion/amazon-whole-foods-jeff-bezos.html?_r=0 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/opinion/amazon-whole-food...
- polskibus 9y ago
  Some of the arguments from the op-ed also apply to other cloud providers hosting other companies SaaS products - like MS serving own BI and invoicing products when they also sell computing power to competing startups.
josaka 9y ago
It's been a decade since my last class on antitrust law, but the statement in the article that "'consumer welfare,' defined as short-term price effects" seems like it was possibly setting up a straw man. I thought CW accounted for quality and variety as well as price. Am I being too generous to the CW approach?

bognition 9y ago

I'd highly recommend an op-ed the original author published in the ny times. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/opinion/amazon-whole-foods-jeff-bezos.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/opinion/amazon-whole-f... It's short and to the point.

jshap70 9y ago
here's the non-mobile link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/opinion/amazon-whole-foods-jeff-bezos.html?_r=0 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/opinion/amazon-whole-food...
polskibus 9y ago
Some of the arguments from the op-ed also apply to other cloud providers hosting other companies SaaS products - like MS serving own BI and invoicing products when they also sell computing power to competing startups.

josaka 9y ago

It's been a decade since my last class on antitrust law, but the statement in the article that "'consumer welfare,' defined as short-term price effects" seems like it was possibly setting up a straw man. I thought CW accounted for quality and variety as well as price. Am I being too generous to the CW approach?