Both Sarah and I are going to be blogging and commenting at Professor Picker’s Antitrust & Intellectual Property seminar blog (called, for some reason, the Tech Policy Seminar blog) this quarter. The current topic of discussion is Jean-Noël Jeanneney’s Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge, translated from the French Quand Google défie l’Europe: Plaidoyer [...]

I am, I admit, a paleocapitalist and (mostly a) paleoconservative. That said, I do not think oil company executives - or any other corporate executives - should have to defend their company’s profits, unless illegally gained. For that reason, this meddling strikes me as ridiculous. Lest we forget, oil is among the most volatile and [...]