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This post features my latest reading suggestions based on the academic papers and press articles that I enjoyed reading in December 2020. As I tend to favor open-source publications and active sharing, you may follow me on Twitter (@LeConcurrential) or LinkedIn (here) to access similar articles on a more regular basis.
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Antitrust:
- Taking Ecosystems Competition Seriously in the Digital Economy (Nicolas Petit & David J. Teece – OECD)
- Google and Shifting Conceptions of What It Means to Improve a Product (Ramsi Woodcock – TOTM)
- The Post-Chicago Antitrust Revolution: A Retrospective (Christopher S. Yoo – Penn Law Review)
- Designing A Pattern, Darkly (Justin Hurwitz – N.C. JOLT)
- The Effectiveness of European Antitrust Fines (Cento Veljanovski – SSRN)
- Automation and Market Dominance (Victor Manuel Bennett – SSRN)
- To which rock bands would you compare each of the tech giants? (Nicolas Petit – Twitter) 🎥
- To which rock bands would you compare each of the tech giants? (Thibault Schrepel – Twitter) 🎥
Blockchain & artificial intelligence:
- Germany Legalizes Electronic Securities on the Blockchain (Tanzeel Akhtar – Coindesk)
- AI and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies (Acemoglu, Autor, Hazell & Restrepo)
- In a major scientific breakthrough, A.I. predicts the exact shape of proteins (Jeremy Kahn – Fortune)
- Tiny four-bit computers are now all you need to train AI (Karen Hao – MIT Tech Review)
- An Ethnography of Decentralised Information Infrastructure (Kelsie Nabben – RMIT)
- Neolastics: Liquid On-Chain Generative Neo-Plastic Art
- Automating Ostrom for Effective DAO Management (Jeff Emmett – Medium)
- Quantum supremacy, now with BosonSampling (Scott Aaronson – Shtetl-Optimized)
- Co-founder of Apple launches blockchain green tech company (Abigail Opiah – Capacity)
- Apple Co-founder Wozniak’s Crypto Doubles in Price Overnight (Jeff Benson – Decrypt)
Big Tech:
- The balkanization of the cloud is bad for everyone (Michael Rawding & Samm Sacks – MIT Tech Review)
- Big Tech but Bigger Ideas (Bowman Heiden – TOTM)
- Social Networking 2.0 (Ben Thompson – Stratechery)
- Extract or Die (Mike Solana – Substack)
- News Diffusion on Twitter: Comparing the Dissemination Careers for Mainstream and Marginal News (Bruns & Keller)
- Big Tech and the Digital Economy: The Moligopoly Scenario (Nicolas Petit – New Books) 🎧
- Big data and big techs: understanding the value of information (Marciano, Nicita & Ramello – Eur. J. Law & Econ)
- Techno-optimism for the 2020s (Noah Smith – Substack)
- The Flawed Reasoning of the Techlash and Progressive Movements (Dirk Auer – Quillette)
- Citi is working with ‘some governments’ to create digital currencies, says CEO (Yogita Khatri – The Block)
- The regulator’s puzzle (Ben Evans)
- Apple Silicon Mac Is About To Kill Web Apps (Anupam Chugh – Medium)
- Facebook Plans To Break Up U.S. Government Before It Becomes Too Powerful (The Onion, meaning it’s a joke 😉)
Econ:
- How do venture capitalists make decisions? (Gompersab, Gornallc, Kaplandb & Strebulaeveb – Journal of Financial Econ.)
- Digital Capital and Superstar Firms (Tambe, Hitt, Rock & Brynjolfsson – NBER)
- Artificial Intelligence, Firm Growth, and Industry Concentration (Babina, Fedyk, He & Hodson – SSRN)
- How the CEOs of Multi-Billion Dollar Companies Spend Their Time (Jeff Desjardins – Visual Capitalist)
- Killer Acquisitions and Beyond: Policy Effects on Innovation Strategies (Letina, Schmutzler & Seibel – University of Zurich)
- Potential Sources of Value from Mergers and Their Indicators (Melissa A. Schilling – The Antitrust Bulletin)
Other:
- The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (Nick Bostrom)
- Justice versus Power (Chomsky & Foucault – YouTube) 🎥
- Hidden Half (Michael Blastland & Russ Roberts) 🎧
- Who do we spend time with across our lifetime? (Esteban Ortiz-Ospina – Our World In Data)
- Elon Musk says SpaceX will attempt uncrewed Mars flight in two years (Darrell Etherington – TechCrunch)
- Can scholarly pirate libraries bridge the knowledge access gap? (Bodó, Antal, Puha – PLOS)
- Long Bets
- Britain has some of the greatest theoretical scientists, so why won’t it properly fund them? (Thomas Fink – The Guardian)
I also read (and enjoyed) these books:
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Random House, 2007): a book by author and former options trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The book focuses on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable outlier events—and the human tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events, retrospectively. Taleb calls this the Black Swan theory.
- Michael Lewis, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (Norton, 2003): a book by Michael Lewis about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its general manager Billy Beane. Its focus is the team’s analytical, evidence-based, sabermetric approach to assembling a competitive baseball team despite Oakland’s small budget.
Dr. Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
