Alberto López

Warner Bros rebuffs Paramount takeover approach, Bloomberg News reports Warner Bros Discovery has rebuffed Paramount Skydance's initial takeover approach as too low, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday.

Warner Bros rebuffs Paramount takeover approach, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/3W2dX34

The Paramount and Warner Bros. Assets That Would Make a Media Behemoth A sprawling array of streaming, cable and film properties could position a combined company to better compete with media and tech giants.

In charts: A Paramount-Warner Bros. merger would unite some of the entertainment industry’s most valuable assets under one roof.

Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Make Hollywood Great Again, but There’s a Plan That Can President Donald Trump says US movie production is “dying.” There’s something that could help, but it isn’t a 100 percent tariff on foreign-produced films.

So yeah... Trump has once again posted about imposing tariffs on the film industry. "I will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any and all movies made outside the United States."

Let's revisit our piece on how that won't exactly make Hollywood great again...

I want to thank Michele Bolla for organizing it and to the discussant, Caroline Itzkoff, for her valuable comments.

Today, I had the honor of presenting the research progress of my doctoral thesis, "Antitrust policies and their effects on the development of the American film industry (1900-1960)" at the Cambridge Economic and Social History Workshop.

A 65-page summary of what the FTC achieved under Lina Khan www.ftc.gov/system/files...

Happy to see #booksky trending! If you're into American history, political history, media history (etc), then check out my two latest!

Deadline in one week!
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This is a thread about remaking the tech sector.

Musk as Edison of our time? This is an opportunity to remind everyone that Edison was also a total troll. He fucked with movie folks claiming to have invented/patented everything from the celluloid to the cameras and projectors. Spoiler: he didn't but had money and power to make it look like he did.

Revised version of our paper with Bo Cowgill and Andrea Prat just out.

We document how mergers in the US are followed by large and persistent increases in lobbying activity. Firms with market power also try to gain political power.

www.nber.org/papers/w33255

Review | Brothers who came from Russia and conquered Hollywood “Moguls,” by Michael Benson and Craig Singer, looks back at the lives and influence of movie executives Nicholas and Joseph Schenck.

This review for the @washingtonpost.com was one of the more difficult for me to write. It's a fun and wild narrative, but the #research is largely nonexistent (no footnotes or references). #history #movies #hollywood #marilynmonroe #fixers

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/1...

How economists influence antitrust: the contributions of Tim Bresnahan, Janusz Ordover, Steve Salop, and Bobby Willig Abstract. Economists influence antitrust policy through theoretical and empirical economic research, translation and synthesis of that research, direct par

Just published:
How economists influence antitrust: the contributions of Tim Bresnahan, Janusz Ordover, Steve Salop, and Bobby Willig. #EconSky

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programa doctorado universidad de barcelona

Nuestro perfil en X @Econhist-Ub ha sido cancelado siguiendo a la @unibarcelona.bsky.social

Somos el doctorado en historia económica de la Universidad de Barcelona

We are the Economic History PhD program at the University of Barcelona.

Som el doctorat en història econòmica de la UB

There are now FIVE economic-history-related starter packs, listed in order of their emergence...:

EH1 @benmschneider.bsky.social
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EH2 @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social
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Historical Political Economy @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social

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