Competition & The New Economy

Workforce development and small business development go hand in hand.

We will build the economy of the near future, full of machine learning and innovation, by overcoming the last century’s flawed, macro definitions of how the economy works. Those definitions were created by real…

Small Business Crisis Point

We have a growing problem in the US that directly contributes to the rise in inequality. We have fewer and fewer new small businesses. Until we reverse this trend, inequity will rise.

What’s Next, Antitrust 2014 and Beyond?

Original published in the Global Competition Review in early 2014.

A growing consensus is coalescing; it is time to rethink the framework of the American economy to best meet our modern challenges. Rewritten antitrust laws interwoven…

Municipal Research Prompts

Ideas in search of collaborative responses

As I continue to explore the changing economy with the rise of “sharing” or “peers” or “platforms” or “disaggregation” or “access” or whatever you choose to term it, there become more…

Whose Data Is That?

If someone collects data that is your information… is it still their data and still your information? Or have they transformed it and taken your right in it away?

Freer Markets, A New Antitrust

We must change our posture from being adversarial to business through restrictive and protectionist regulation to light-handedly policing the marketplace to ensure that transactions are fair to all parties.

Public Trust Designation — First Thoughts

The first musings towards a Regulatory Choice Framework.

“Public trust” would be, conceivably, a designation set at the discretion of an regulatory agency or legislature based on reasonable…

Whither Regulation, A Statement of Purpose

The traditional debate between regulation and deregulation completely overlooks the purpose and the benefit of a carefully tailored and focused regulatory system that promotes commercial activity by protecting trust in markets. Within this framework, the…

Municipal Antitrust: Taming Disruptive Competition Through Fair Regulatory Redesign

Oh, the papers I must write! Below is an abtract as paper proposal for a piece that I will co-author this spring.