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Published · transcript-backedJason Furman: evaluation
26 Aug 2020 Conversations with Tyler Jason Furman on Productivity, Competition, and Growth
“Some of the proposals that I made in the context of the report in the United Kingdom, I don’t think would constrain an awful lot of what’s good about Amazon’s business model.”
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- Jason Furman
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- 26 Aug 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…A few questions about tech, which you’ve been working on lately in the United Kingdom. You once wrote a piece called “Wal-Mart: A Progressive Success Story.” Can we today say the same about Amazon? It does lower prices, right? I have a lot of fondness for Amazon. I order a lot from Amazon. I’ve personally benefited a lot from Amazon. I think an awful lot of American customers do. Amazon’s online retail platform also is, to some degree, competing with brick-and-mortar retail. And once you place it in that market, it’s a relatively small player in all of it. So personally, I actually think Amazon would probably be lowest on my list of concerns. But that doesn’t mean I have no concerns about Amazon and don’t think it needs to be monitored. Some of the proposals that I made in the context of the report in the United Kingdom, I don’t think would constrain an awful lot of what’s good about Amazon’s business model. What’s your biggest concern?…
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