I share the papers and articles I enjoyed reading this month. This edition runs from why breakup remedies rarely restore competition to confirmation bias in LLM pricing recommendations, a framework for characterizing AI agents for governance purposes, what researchers should report about randomness in large language models, whether Europe can scale, how policymakers should choose between innovation funding mechanisms, cultural resistance to new ideas measured across 23,000 books, the design of interventions that make illicit markets less efficient, the wisdom...