This publication contains my latest reading suggestions, i.e., academic papers and articles I enjoyed reading in July 2025. You can follow me on X (@ProfSchrepel), LinkedIn (here) or BlueSky (here) to be notified of similar articles on a more regular basis. The Network Law Review is also available on X (@NetworkLawRev), BlueSky (here), and LinkedIn (here).
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Antitrust:
- The U.S. Supreme Court and the Merger Efficiency “Defense” (Herbert Hovenkamp – NLR)
- The Counterintuitive Economics of Default Positions (Chen & Schwartz – NLR)
Artificial Inteligence:
- The Science of Artificial Thinking (Melanie Mitchell & Thibault Schrepel – Scaling Theory) 🎧
- Strategic Intelligence in LLMs (Kenneth Payne & Baptiste Alloui-Cros – Arvix)
- Apple’s Internal Veto Against Open-Source AI Sparked a Talent Exodus to Meta (Kasanmascheff)
- The slow death of scaling and what comes next (Sara Hooker – YouTube)
- Introducing GAIIN: The Global AI Initiatives Navigator (OECD)
- How to run an LLM on your laptop (Huckins – MIT Tech Rev.)
- Call Me A Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests (Meincke et al. – Wharton)
- AI is eating the Internet (Pao Ramen)
- The role of explainability and human intervention in AI decisions (Rajendra & Thuraisingam – ICTL)
Digital:
- From Cells to Algorithms (Melanie Moses & Thibault Schrepel – Scaling Theory) 🎧
- Tech Philosophy and AI Strategy (Ben Thompson – Stratechery)
- Robot Regulators (Frye – SSRN)
- Trump Signs Stablecoin Bill, Delivering Win for Crypto Industry (Lai & Dlouhy – Bloomberg)
Econ:
- How Employee Networks Drive Innovation, and How Remote Work Alters Both (Gibbs et al. – NLR)
- Measuring Social Media Network Effects (Aral et al. – Arvix)
- The Value of Open Source Software (Hoffman, Nagle & Zhou – Harvard Business School)
- Economists or lawyers? Who is better at designing institutions? (Mike – JIE)
- Data ecosystems at the crossroads of centralization and decentralization (Kernstock et al. – EM)
- Semiconductors and Modern Industrial Policy (Bown & Wang – JEP)
- Innovation diffusion uncertainty: incremental and radical innovations compared (Greve & Seidel – ICC)
Others:
- I enjoyed this movie so much that I wanted to feature it: Perfect Days (Wim Wenders, 2023)
Thibault Schrepel
@ProfSchrepel
