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The European Union recently fined Google €2.4 billion for giving favorable treatment in its search engine results to its own services. Given this is only the latest in a string of antitrust cases against U.S. tech companies, you’d be forgiven for thinking Europe had declared war on American innovation. You’d be wrong. The EU is merely using the same antitrust enforcement practices championed by American regulators for most of the 20th century, writes Georgia State University’s Ramsi Woodcock. In fact, he argues, it’s the abandonment stateside of aggressive enforcement in the 1980s that’s now
hampering U.S. technological progress.
Appalachia’s scenic mountains and rivers have been sullied for decades by coal mining and other extractive industries. West Virginia University legal scholar Nicholas Stump explains how the still-evolving concept of environmental human rights could help the region create a
healthier, more sustainable future. Also immersed in Appalachia, linguistics professor Kirk Hazen has spent years studying the speech patterns of the region’s people. Pushing back against the stereotype that the way they speak is “wrong” or not “proper” English, he shows how the Appalachian dialect merely constitutes one thread in the nation’s rich linguistic fabric.
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European Union Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager has followed an antitrust enforcement strategy pioneered in the U.S.
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Ramsi Woodcock, Georgia State University
Europe's approach to antitrust enforcement picks up where the US left off in the 1980s, when the view that breaking up monopolies hurt innovation took hold.
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Daniel M. Shea
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Benjamin Isakhan, Deakin University
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Ramsi Woodcock
Georgia State University
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