This publication contains my latest reading suggestions, i.e., academic papers and articles I enjoyed reading in April 2026. 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).
Antitrust:
- Beyond Nudges: AI Agents, Antitrust, and Complexity Economics (Schrepel – SSRN)
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Legal Reasoning (Bednar et al. – SSRN)
- Should Antitrust Pursue Multiple Policy Goals? (Albrecht & Hovenkamp – SSRN)
- The Waterbed Effect Doesn’t Hold Water (Albrecht – Truth on the Market)
- AI’s Scientific Ethos and the Moat That Wouldn’t Hold (Mario Zúñiga – Truth on the Market)
AI:
- AI Index Report 2026 (Sajadieh et al. – Stanford HAI)
- Some Thoughts on AI and Research (Andrews – MIT Economics)
- Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite (Burn-Murdoch – Financial Times)
- Philosophy Eats AI (Schrage & Kiron – MIT Sloan Management Review)
- What is Generative AI Worth? (Brynjolfsson et al. – Stanford Digital Economy Lab)
- Read the Paper, Write the Code: Agentic Reproduction of Social-Science Results (Kohler et al. – ETH Zurich)
- AI in Federal Courts: A Random-Sample Survey of Judges (Linna et al. – The Sedona Conference)
Econ:
- How Europe Regulated Itself into American Vassalage (The Economist)
- More Laws, More Growth? Evidence from US States (Ash et al. – JLE)
- The Papers of Friedrich August von Hayek Now Accessible Online (Hoover Institution)
- The World’s Most Complex Machine (Hacker – Works in Progress)
- ‘Replication Games’ Test the Robustness of Social-Science Studies (Brodeur et al. – Nature)
- ABM and Simulation for Economic Markets (Jamali & Lazarova-Molnar – Journal of Simulation)
Others:
- Building a Digital Brain for Research: A Guide to Queryable Knowledge Graphs (Schrepel – SSRN)
- Albert-László Barabási on the Hidden Order of Networks (Schrepel & Barabási – Scaling Theory)
- How Have Universities Survived for Nearly a Millennium? (Cutler & Glaeser – NBER)
- Viewpoint Diversity (Sunstein – Cass’s Substack)
Thibault Schrepel
@ProfSchrepel