Engines of Extraction How Personalisation Drives Market Concentration

🧠 New Essay in the #IndustryDynamics column of #ALOGOPOLY

#DigitalMarkets #AIeconomy #PlatformPower #DataGovernance #BehaviouralSurplus #Antitrust #AIpolicy #AttentionEconomy #MarketConcentration

alogopoly.substack.com/p/engines-of...

A key concern: AI's benefits seem concentrated among the S&P 10, not broadly across the S&P 490. Are smaller companies seeing real productivity gains, or are profits disproportionately flowing to a select few tech giants? #MarketConcentration 4/5

An #AgentBasedModel calibrated on South Korea reveals how #financialpolicies —#interestrates and #DSR limits—reshape #marketconcentration. Results expose firm-level mechanisms, thresholds, and macro trade-offs.

Read #OpenAccess on #JASSS: www.jasss.org/28/3/5.html

The skilled worker premium and labor's share of income: Recent trends in U.S. manufacturing A well-established literature documents the role of outsourcing and technological change in explaining the growing skills premium in the U.S. economy from the 1970s through the late 1990s. In the 198...

"The skilled worker premium and labor's share of income: Recent trends in U.S. manufacturing," by Norman Sedgley of Loyola University Maryland and Bruce Elmslie of University of New Hampshire.
#SkillPremium #Outsourcing #MarketConcentration

Top 10% owns 87% of stocks, controls 50% of spending - wealth gap keeps widening
https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/02/the-top-10/
#wealthinequality #economics #consumerspending #assetownership #marketconcentration

An interesting visualization of the largest health plans in each state. For context: Elevance, HCSC, and Highmark are all #BlueCrossBlueShield plans. #BCBS #HealthInsurance #MarketConcentration #monopolies #DataVisualization https://buff.ly/4gJfSl6

From Ad Platform to TV Empire: Trade Desk's ambitious Ventura OS raises eyebrows Trade Desk's Ventura OS sparks industry debate as competitors warn of potential market concentration in CTV advertising landscape.

From Ad Platform to TV Empire: Trade Desk's ambitious Ventura OS raises eyebrows: Trade Desk's Ventura OS sparks industry debate as competitors warn of potential market concentration in CTV advertising landscape. #TradeDesk #VenturaOS #CTVAdvertising #AdTech #MarketConcentration

From Ad Platform to TV Empire: Trade Desk's ambitious Ventura OS raises eyebrows Trade Desk's Ventura OS sparks industry debate as competitors warn of potential market concentration in CTV advertising landscape.

From Ad Platform to TV Empire: Trade Desk's ambitious Ventura OS raises eyebrows: Trade Desk's Ventura OS sparks industry debate as competitors warn of potential market concentration in CTV advertising landscape. #TradeDesk #VenturaOS #CTVAdvertising #AdTech #MarketConcentration

The states with the least competitive commercial insurance markets | 2024 "AMA report finds that almost half of US commercial insurance markets are dominated by one payer, with 95% of metro areas highly concentrated. See which states

95% of metropolitan areas have "highly concentrated" commercial #HealthInsurance markets. #MarketConcentration #Monopoly

Must-read paper: How economies of scale & scope in #LLMs may drive #MarketConcentration, leading to unprecedented (and risky) #PowerAccumulation.
#futureOfWork