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Please find below the papers and articles that I enjoyed reading in August 2020. You can follow me on Twitter at @LeConcurrential if you want to find out about similar articles on a more regular basis.
Antitrust:
- Why Do Courts Err in Pharmaceutical Antitrust Cases? (Michael Carrier – Concurrentialiste)
- “Never Break the Chain”: Pursuing Antifragility in Antitrust Enforcement (Makan Delrahim – DOJ)
- Pricing Algorithms as Collusive Devices (Cento Veljanovski – SSRN)
- The Role of Antitrust in Preventing Patent Holdup (Carl Shapiro & Mark A. Lemley – SSRN)
- Surprise! The Big Tech antitrust hearing was a PR boost (Arianne Cohen – Fast Company)
- The New Crisis in Antitrust (Daniel A. Crane – Antitrust Law Journal)
- A Defeat for Antitrust Adventurism (WSJ)
- Antitrust Politics (Ben Thompson)
- Big Tech’s Antitrust Paradox (Randy Picker – Pro Market)
- App stores, trust and anti-trust (Benedict Evans)
Blockchain & artificial intelligence:
- May it Please the Bot? (Jameson Dempsey & Gabriel Teninbaum – MIT Computational Law Report)
- Ethereum: the next five years (Rene Millman – Decrypt)
- The Dream of a Global Internet Is Dead (Will Oremus – Fast Company)
- Bringing Smart Contracts and Oracles to Microsoft Office (Aaron Wright – OpenLaw)
- Lawyer to File Crypto Class-Action Seeking Billions From Social Media ‘Cartel’ (Samuel Haig – Cointelegraph)
- The problems AI has today go back centuries (Karen Hao – MIT Tech Review)
- Merging AI with the Human Brain (Anthony Cuthbertson – The Independent)
- A college kid’s fake, AI-generated blog fooled tens of thousands (Karen Hao – MIT Tech Review)
- A new neural network could help computers code themselves (Will Douglas Heavenarchive – MIT Tech Review)
- Thailand Is Prepping to Move Judicial System Records to a Blockchain (Danny Nelson – Coindesk)
Big Tech:
- Law and Technology Realism (Thibault Schrepel – MIT Computational Law Report)
- The World’s Tech Giants, Ranked by Brand Value (Theras A.G. Wood – Visual Capitalist)
- 10 Myths About Big Tech & Antitrust (Alec Stapp – PPI)
- The Jeff Bezos Empire in One Giant Chart (Jeff Desjardins – Visual Capitalist)
- Twitter opens up to developers ahead of decentralization push (Andrew Hayward – Decrypt)
- Setting The Record Straight: Big Tech Is Working For America (CCIA)
- Would breaking up ‘big tech’ work? What would? (Benedict Evans)
- The EU is launching a market for personal data. Here’s what that means for privacy. (Anna Artyushina – MIT Tech Review)
Econ:
- The House’s Big Tech Hearing: Break Ups Large and Small? (Randy Picker – Pro Market)
- Young “Stars” in Economics: what they do and where they go (Kevin A. Bryan)
- The World’s Largest 10 Economies in 2030 (Jeff Desjardins – Visual Capitalist)
- Ranking the Top 100 Websites in the World (Nick Routley – Visual Capitalist)
- EU digital protectionism risks damaging ties with the US (Charlene Barshefsky – MIT Tech Review)
- Remote Work Is Reshaping San Francisco, as Tech Workers Flee and Rents Fall (Katherine Bindley – WSJ)
- Acquisitions of Potential Competitors: The U.S. Approach and Calls for Reform (Koren Wong-Ervin & James Moore – SSRN)
- Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Who Needs Them? (Nicolai Foss & Peter Klein – Academy of Management Perspectives)
Other:
- History as Evolution (Nathan Nunn – Handbook of Historical Economics)
- ‘Surveillance Capitalism’ and the Angst of the Petit Sovereign (Fleur Johns – SSRN)
- Radical Uncertainty (John Kay, Mervyn King & Russ Roberts)
- Bill Gates on Covid: Most US Tests Are ‘Completely Garbage’ (Steven Levy – Wired)
- The Future of Higher Education (Michael Munger & Russ Roberts – EconTalk)
- This Plan Could See A “Princeton Mumbai” Or “Harvard Hyderabad” (Tyler Cowen – NDTV)
- Complex Societies and the Growth of the Law (Katz, Coupette, Beckedorf, Hartung – SSRN)
- To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab (Ethan Zuckerman)
- Cognitive and academic benefits of music training with children (Sala & Gobet – Memory & Cognition)
I also read (and enjoyed) these books:
- Andrew McAfee, More From Less (Scribner, 2020)
- Richard Gilbert, Innovation Matters (MIT Press, 2020)
- Modern Evolutionary Economics (Cambridge, 2018)
- Matt Ridley, How Innovation Works (HarperCollins, 2020)
- Mario J. Rizzo, Escaping Paternalism (Cambridge, 2019)
Dr. Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)