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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 Unwise Extension of Antitrust Law to Labor Markets (Richard Epstein – Concurrentialiste)
- Alternatives to Data Sharing (Thibault Schrepel — The Regulatory Review)
- International Perspectives on Privacy and Competition Law (Akman, Christen, Hirayama, Fee, Akman — ABA)
- Antitrust can’t tame inequality, let alone inflation (Ramsi Woodcock – The Hill)
- OECD framework for the classification of AI systems (OECD practical papers)
Blockchain or Artificial Intelligence:
- New US stock exchange will use the blockchain to track trading activity (Bonifacic — Engadget)
- Google Cloud unveils digital assets team, to explore accepting crypto (Ledger Insights)
- Maybe There’s a Use for Crypto After All (Kevin Roose – The New York Times)
- Forbes Blockchain 50 2022 (Michael del Castillo & Matt Schifrin — Forbes)
- Apple to enable crypto payments with ‘tap to pay’ by the end of 2022 (Aaryamann Shrivastava — Yahoo!)
- A Guide to DeSci, the Latest Web3 Movement (Sarah Hamburg — Future)
- FBI Forms New Crypto Crimes Unit as DOJ Names Enforcement Team Director (Andrew Hayward — Decrypt)
- I was wrong, we need crypto (David Heinemeier Hansson)
- In new Data Act, the European Commission aims for more control over smart contracts (Kollen Post — The Block)
Video series:
- History of Blockchain (Thibault Schrepel) 🎥
- Understanding blockchain in just 7 minutes (Thibault Schrepel) 🎥
- What Darwin can teach us about blockchain (Thibault Schrepel) 🎥
- Blockchain decentralization (Thibault Schrepel) 🎥
- Blockchain antitrust: the dynamics (Thibault Schrepel) 🎥
- Blockchain is not a firm (Thibault Schrepel) 🎥
- Blockchain governance (Thibault Schrepel) 🎥
- Collusion within blockchain (Thibault Schrepel) 🎥
- Collusion using blockchain (Thibault Schrepel) 🎥
Big Tech:
- Facebook lost daily users for the first time ever last quarter (Alex Heath — The Verge)
- The Metaverse, Virtual Worlds, and the Problems of Philosophy (David Chalmers — Stitcher) 🎧
- Leaked Strategy Memo Reveals “Techlash” Campaign Plan (Robert D. Atkinson & Daniel Castro — ITIF)
- Why Coinbase Admitted Apple Calls The Shots (Elizabeth Lopatto — The Verge)
- EU ramps up Big Tech clampdown without 3 top antitrust investigators (Simon van dorpe — Politico)
- Yann LeCun on a vision to make AI systems learn and reason like animals and humans (Yann LeCun — Meta AI)
- Now that computers connect us all, for better and worse, what’s next? (Matthew Hutson — Science News)
Econ:
- Boston Fed says its prototype can handle 1.7 million transactions per second (Chris Matthews — MarketWatch)
- What are decacorns, the clumsily named kings of the startup world? (The Economist)
- What Is “Surveillance Capitalism” and Should We Be Concerned? (Neil Chilson & Jim Harper — Fee Stories)
- FTC’s top economist resigned amid dispute over pharma study (Leah Nylen — Politico)
- Decentralized Finance—A Systematic Literature Review and Research Directions (Meyer, Welpe & Sandner — SSRN)
Other:
- What is Public Choice? (Center for Study of Public Choice) 🎥
- Prediction Markets (Center for Study of Public Choice) 🎥
- Computer Scientist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty (Amit Sahai — WIRED) 🎥
- Anticapture (spengrah)
- Narrative Device
- Echo chambers, filter bubbles, and polarisation (Arguedas, Robertson, Fletcher & Nielsen — Reuters Institute)
Dr. Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
