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"The IG Farben breakup is particularly instructive because it was externally imposed and implemented and because it was unexpected by the breakup target," writes @tpri_bu's Felix Poege promarket.org/2022/10/05/new…

EEUU: DOJ anuncia que 7 directores han renunciado a sus directorios tras investigaciones por Interlocking (participación simultánea como director en empresas competidoras). De acuerdo con la Sección 8 de la Clayton Act, constituye un ilícito per se. justice.gov/opa/pr/directo…

Antitrust Division Federalist Society AAG Kanter then goes on to rebuke Robert Bork’s consumer welfare standard. He says “the first principles of antitrust shouldn’t be a book written by a professor, but the statutes laid out by Congress.”

Virgin and Child #murillo #baroque wikiart.org/en/bartolome-e…

This is the Mondaq Dominance Comparative Guide - Ecuadorian competition law mondaq.com/antitrustcompe…

[COMPETENCIA DESLEAL] 🇪🇨 Alberto Brown revisa el nuevo proyecto de ley de competencia desleal ecuatoriana, que mantendría la confusión que actualmente existe entre los bienes jurídicos protegidos por la competencia desleal y la libre competencia 👇 centrocompetencia.com/confusion-conc…

Edward Coke's Ciceronian Common Law law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/ev… Adrian Vermeule

The idea that we can have a body of “economic truths” purified from law and policy is where economists show their true colours: corporatists, conceited and oblivious of the political economy. /end

Merry Christmas!

Today The New Digest, we’re very pleased to have a guest post from Dr. Alberto Brown (Alberto Brown), a distinguished competition lawyer from Ecuador, who offers a classical perspective on antitrust and market regulation. Enjoy! thenewdigest.substack.com/p/antitrust-or…

New post by Dr Alberto Brown Alberto Brown at The New Digest offering a classical legal analysis of some key issues in contemporary Antitrust/competition law ⬇️

The greatest philosophical systems were the Platonic tradition extending through Plotinus to Augustine and Anselm, and the Aristotelian tradition extending to Avicenna, Maimonides and Albertus Magnus. Then Aquinas perfected both by uniting them in the grand synthesis of Thomism.

ROME, ITALY—Once a year, on Pentecost Sunday, rose petals are dropped from the oculus of the Pantheon while the “Veni Creator Spiritus” is chanted. These pilgrims were blessed to see it, today!

Great review by Hal Singer thesling.org/did-economists…

[CASO BANRED]💵 Alberto Brown evalúa el estado del control judicial de legalidad desde la perspectiva de la sentencia referida en el caso Banred. Además, plantea un panorama sobre el futuro del derecho de competencia en Ecuador.👇 centrocompetencia.com/caso-banred-la…

RIP David Lynch

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday approved the decision to declare St. John Henry Newman the 38th doctor of the universal Church. catholicworldreport.com/2025/07/31/st-…

Google loses US appeal over app store reforms in Epic Games case reut.rs/4fAKpm9 reut.rs/4fAKpm9