Thomas Hazlett, Hugh H. Macaulay Endowed Chair of Economics and Director of the Information Economy Project at Clemson University, weighs in on a Senate subcommittee hearing discussing “platform monopolists” such as Apple and Google. The hearing, which included testimony from a noted economics professor, the president of an app industry trade association, and a public interest group focused on choice in the digital market, served in some ways as a backdrop for a new antitrust bill. Read the full article.
