Uploaded October 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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The Justice Department has filed a historic antitrust case against Google. I discuss whether Google is being anticompetitive, whether the monopoly hurts consumers, and how much consumer surplus Google creates. #economics

Read more on consumer surplus from search engines at, "Using massive online choice experiments to measure changes in well-being" by Erik Brynjolfsson, Avinash Collis, and Felix Eggers pnas.org/content/116/15/7250

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