South Africa needs a robust economic policy agenda to make it more open, productive and inclusive.
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Efforts to curb railroads’ monopoly power in the 19th century hold lessons for 21st-century policymakers and internet giants alike.
South Africa’s idea of radical economic transformation is missing a critical element.
South Africa’s Competition Commission may be wasting resources in undertaking market inquiries as they are expensive and yield little results.
Uber’s business model suggests something has to give – either its imperial ambitions or its presence in markets which hold it to account.
There is no good case for bailing out South African Airways, it’s simply a matter of avoiding a potentially catastrophic debt default.
South Africa’s 14 point plan to achieve economic recovery lacks detail and vision of how the country is going to get itself out the prevailing economic crisis.
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.
Together, three asset managers now control shares in 40% of all publicly listed firms in the United States.
Unlike their counterparts in Europe, U.S. antitrust regulators and courts have tended to view ‘free’ products as outside their purview for enforcement.
The way governments have handled the compensation process for taxi drivers, as ride-sharing app Uber is legalised, is uneven.
Free Basics may be free to the user, but it’ll cost India’s economy in the long run.
South Africa’s tightening up of its competition law enables it to punish collusive conduct by firms, but there are major obstacles to implementing the changes.
Legal moves against Google are a major step, with implications that will stretch across the industry.
Ever since BT was privatised there have been calls to break it up. But with the steps Ofcom has already taken, it’s not clear there’s any benefit for consumers.
The winner of this year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Jean Tirole, is one of the most prolific, respected and admired economic theorists of the last 30 years and has had significant influence…
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