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Large incumbent firms may take steps to eliminate innovative nascent competitors, either by merger or by excluding them from the market.

Over time, dominant tech firms like IBM have been displaced by rivals. Antitrust enforcement spurred changes to IBM’s behavior that enabled the rise of a competitive software and computer industry.

Some observers note a decline in competition in American industry; fewer new firms are entering the market, and markets are becoming more concentrated. Federal and state agencies can devise regulations to catalyze competition.

Firms like Google and Facebook rely on consumer attention, a limited resource. Consumer protection laws and antitrust law assume that harm must be monetary, and do not effectively control problems that arise from unwanted intrusions on our attention.

This book looks at the future of the Internet, asking how Internet economics and regulation are likely to change.

This book looks at how radio, television, and the telephone evolved, and argues that the Internet might be similar.

This paper asks if regulation is needed to keep prices to access content online from changing.

This paper looks at how copyright law supports competition.

This letter supports new rules providing for “network neutrality” on the Internet.

This paper looks at ideas to support open access to the Internet, including net neutrality rules.