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We’re now hearing from Matthew Gentzkow, a Stanford professor of economics who also spent many years at the University of Chicago School of Business and says he publishes in all the top economics journals as well as Science and Nature. He also won an award.
He’s Google’s first economics expert and says he was tasked with answering two questions:
Did Google’s conduct create more value for consumers?
Did it block competition in a way that destroyed value for consumers?
His answers, as you’d expect: yes, and no.
He says that if one company is doing better than two other companies, it might simply mean it’s offering a better value — creating competition, says Gentzkow, not blocking it.
