Stephen Dubner

Do you feel that was a legitimate expectation or it was a little bit of a fig leaf?

When you say that it rebuts those, can you put that in the form of more and more empirical evidence that what?

When you say that it rebuts those, can you put that in the form of more and more empirical evidence that what?

When you say that it rebuts those, can you put that in the form of more and more empirical evidence that what?

OK, so that's the context for the antitrust climate you walked into. Let's back up. You're at the open markets think tank. You're finding out everything there is to know about the history of antitrust policy and the poultry market, for instance. What happens then?

OK, so that's the context for the antitrust climate you walked into. Let's back up. You're at the open markets think tank. You're finding out everything there is to know about the history of antitrust policy and the poultry market, for instance. What happens then?

OK, so that's the context for the antitrust climate you walked into. Let's back up. You're at the open markets think tank. You're finding out everything there is to know about the history of antitrust policy and the poultry market, for instance. What happens then?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The abstract alone is fascinating. I'll just read one sentence back to you. In addition to being a retailer, Amazon is now a marketing platform, a delivery and logistics network, a payment service, a credit lender, an auction house, major book publisher. It goes on and on and on and on.

The abstract alone is fascinating. I'll just read one sentence back to you. In addition to being a retailer, Amazon is now a marketing platform, a delivery and logistics network, a payment service, a credit lender, an auction house, major book publisher. It goes on and on and on and on.

The abstract alone is fascinating. I'll just read one sentence back to you. In addition to being a retailer, Amazon is now a marketing platform, a delivery and logistics network, a payment service, a credit lender, an auction house, major book publisher. It goes on and on and on and on.

Elements of the firm's structure and conduct pose anti-competitive concerns, yet it has escaped antitrust scrutiny. Is that the paradox of your title, that it's acting like a monopoly but escaping the scrutiny?

Elements of the firm's structure and conduct pose anti-competitive concerns, yet it has escaped antitrust scrutiny. Is that the paradox of your title, that it's acting like a monopoly but escaping the scrutiny?

Elements of the firm's structure and conduct pose anti-competitive concerns, yet it has escaped antitrust scrutiny. Is that the paradox of your title, that it's acting like a monopoly but escaping the scrutiny?

What do you mean by those blind spots? And I'm curious how that was accomplished. Was that just Jeff Bezos and his leadership being very, very good at corporate strategy or was it more than that?

What do you mean by those blind spots? And I'm curious how that was accomplished. Was that just Jeff Bezos and his leadership being very, very good at corporate strategy or was it more than that?

What do you mean by those blind spots? And I'm curious how that was accomplished. Was that just Jeff Bezos and his leadership being very, very good at corporate strategy or was it more than that?

OK, so your Amazon paper clearly struck a deep chord. But how did you go from being a law student, admittedly a high profile law student, to being chair of the FTC?