This publication contains my latest reading suggestions, i.e., academic papers and articles I enjoyed reading in May 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:
- Innovation on Rugged Technological Landscapes (Callander et al. – Network Law Review)
- Latin Antitrust Chronicles: September 2025-March 2026 (Ragazzo et al. – Network Law Review)
- Competition in the Press: A Computational Analysis of U.S.–German Newspaper Discourse (1870–1945) (Küsters – Stanford Computational Antitrust)
- Spirit Airlines and the Antitrust Left (The Wall Street Journal)
- False Positives, Real Casualties: The High Price of Populist Antitrust (Barnett – Truth on the Market)
- Invisible deterrence in merger policy: why the prohibition rate says little (Unekbas et al. – JECLAP)
AI:
- When Dawkins met Claude (Dawkins – UnHerd)
- 2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership (Anthropic)
- Positive Alignment: Artificial Intelligence for Human Flourishing (Laukkonen et al. – arXiv)
- Thinking is not only writing (Earp et al. – Nature Reviews Bioengineering)
- What the compute market says about EU AI sovereignty (Barczentewicz – EU Tech Reg)
- EU accused of wasting €20 billion on AI computing dreams (Pieter Haeck – Politico)
- The Data Center Water Crisis Isn’t Real (Blake Dodge & Harris Sockel – Pirate Wires)
Econ:
- How Reform Happens (Djankov et al. – NBER)
- Does competition increase or decrease the innovation gap? (Arvanitis et al. – JEBO)
- Early-career researchers do more ‘disruptive’ science than veterans (Lenharo – Nature)
Others:
- Governance and Policy Challenges of Blockchain (G’sell – Stanford Cyber Policy Center)
- How Networks Quietly Shape What You Believe (Schrepel & Jackson – Scaling Theory)
- Andrew Huberman on screens, sunlight, and how we relate (Maher – Club Random)
Thibault Schrepel
@ProfSchrepel