Sam Bowman is a founding editor of Works in Progress and Stripe Press. Previously, he was director of competition policy at the International Center for Law and Economics (ICLE), principal at Fingleton, and executive director of the Adam Smith Institute. As an affiliate of the ICLE, he helped manage the Center’s work on competition and platform regulation issues in the US and overseas. Before joining ICLE in 2020, he was a Principal at Fingleton, a London-based regulatory and competition advisory firm, where he advised corporate clients on competition and public policy issues and led UK industry reviews into Open Banking and open data in the energy market. Before that, he was Executive Director of the Adam Smith Institute, one of Europe’s leading think tanks. He holds degrees in economics and history from University College Cork and the University of London.
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The Furman Report is a Flimsy Basis for a New UK Competition Policy* Earlier this year the UK government announced it was adopting the main recommendations of the Furman Report into competition in digital markets and setting up a “Digital Markets Taskforce” to oversee those recommendations (...)
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What Mark Zuckerberg’s Emails Don’t Tell Us about the Instagram Acquisition* Recently-published emails from 2012 between Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s then-Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman, in which Zuckerberg lays out his rationale for buying Instagram, have prompted many to (...)
