Section 31 of Brazil’s new antitrust law (Law 12,529/2011 – BNAL) keeps the Brazilian tradition of extending antitrust scrutiny over any legal entity, including public undertakings (PUs). In this paper I discuss how PUs may be and have been used to indirectly regulate sectors in Brazil, how...

We learn that scientific progress is inherently good, that it has improved the living conditions of all humans and that the digital revolution is progressively helping level the playing field for all. But empirical evidence related to the effects of technological disruptions on the living...

We learn that scientific progress is inherently good, that it has improved the living conditions of all humans and that the digital revolution is progressively helping level the playing field for all. But empirical evidence related to the effects of technological disruptions on the living...

In 2014 Stanford's Professor Mark Lemley wrote the avant-garde and provocative article IP in a World Without Scarcity. There he claimed that, as technology lowers the costs to produce and distribute new products, inventors need less IP protection in order to get stimulated to innovate. In this...