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This post features my latest reading suggestions based on the academic papers and press articles that I enjoyed reading in January 2022. As I tend to favor the active sharing of open-source publications, you can follow me on Twitter (@LeConcurrential) or LinkedIn (here) to access similar articles on a more regular basis.
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Antitrust:
- The American Innovation and Choice Online Act (Richard J. Gilbert – Concurrentialiste)
- Competition Stories: November & December 2021 (Makis Komninos — Concurrentialiste)
- Lessons From the U.S. experience of the First Decades of the 20th Century For Online Ecosystems (Kirat & Marty — OFCE)
- Mergers Involving Nascent Competition (A. Douglas Melamed — SSRN)
- Labor’s Interest in Antitrust (Herbert Hovenkamp — SSRN)
- Transaction Fee Manipulation: An Emerging Threat for Blockchain Antitrust (Max Schneider — E.C.L.R.)
- In defence of the consumer welfare standard (The Economist)
Blockchain or Artificial Intelligence:
- History of Blockchain (Thibault Schrepel – YouTube) 🎥
- Regulation Will Be Good for Crypto (Makan Delrahim — The Wall Street Journal)
- Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Failure (Elizabeth Dwoskin & Gerrit De Vynck — the Washington Post)
- Diagnosing AI Explanation Methods with Folk Concepts of Behavior (Jacovi, Bastings, Gehrmann, Goldberg & Filippova)
- The Untapped Potential of NFTs (Chris Dixon & Naval Ravikant — The Tim Ferriss Show) 🎥
- Smart Courts, Smart Contracts, and the Future of Online Dispute Resolution (Chaisse & Kirkwood — Stanford)
- Report: Illicit activity actually a tiny part of cryptocurrency use (Emily Peck — Axios)
- Jack Dorsey Announces a Legal Defense Fund for Bitcoin Developers (Andrew Asmakov — Decrypt)
- Researchers Build AI That Builds AI (Anil Ananthaswamy — Quanta Magazine)
- Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) as Data Trusts (Kelsie Nabben — SSRN)
- Mark Zuckerberg’s Stablecoin Ambitions Unravel With Diem Sale Talks (Baker, Hamilton & Kharif — Bloomberg)
Big Tech:
- How Facebook Is Morphing Into Meta (Frenkel, Isaac & Mac – NYTimes)
- Cobwebs of Control: the Two Imaginations of the Data Controller in EU Law (Michèle Finck — I.D.P.L.)
Econ:
- The New Interventionism (Jan Piotrowski — The Economist)
- Progress Is a Policy Choice (Alec Stapp & Caleb Watney — Institute for Progress)
- Intel Earnings Dropped, Revenue Edged Higher (Meghan Bobrowsky — The Wall Street Journal)
Other:
- The Legal Eye on Technology (Lyria Bennett Moses – ALTI Forum)
- The Proposal for a Digital Markets Act (DMA): A Summary (Natalia Moreno Belloso — SSRN)
- Gregory Zuckerman on the Crazy Race to Create the COVID Vaccine (Gregory Zuckerman — EconTalk’s) 🎧
- tl;dr papers: Science Abstracts a Second Grader Can Understand
- Building American Dynamism (Katherine Boyle — future)
Dr. Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
