This publication contains my latest reading suggestions, i.e., academic papers and articles I enjoyed reading in December 2024. 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).
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Antitrust:
- Antitrust Antidote: October-December 2024 (Nathan Wilson & Koren W. Wong-Ervin – NLR)
- An Unfond Farewell to Lina Khan (WSJ)
- Labor Antitrust: A Solution in Search of Evidence (Geoffrey A. Manne & Brian Albrecht – TOTM)
- Antitrust Is the God That Fails and Fails (Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. – WSJ)
Artificial Inteligence:
- Leaked Documents Show OpenAI Has a Very Clear Definition of ‘AGI’ (Thomas Maxwell – Gizmodo)
- Workplace Adoption of Generative AI (Bick, Blandin & Deming – NBER)
- This is where the data to build AI comes from (Melissa Heikkilä & Stephanie Arnett – MIT)
- EDPB opinion on AI models: GDPR principles support responsible AI (EDPB)
- The Furious Contest to Unseat Nvidia as King of A.I. Chips (Don Clark – NYTimes)
Digital:
- How Technology Evolves, And What To Do About It (Kevin Kelly & Thibault Schrepel – Scaling Theory) 🎧
- Systemic risks of dominant online platforms: A scoping review (Alice Palmieri, Kollnig & Tamò-Larrieux)
- It’s the Most Indispensable Machine, and engineer, in the World (Ben Cohen – WSJ)
Econ:
- Why Industrial Policy Is (Almost) Always a Bad Idea (Russ Roberts & Scott Sumner – EconTalk) 🎧
- How Competitive is the Stock Market? (Haddad, Huebner & Loualiche – AER)
- What Economists Could Learn From George Costanza (Oren Cass – NYTimes)
- Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870 (Bouscasse, Nakamura & Steinsson – QJE)
- Hayek’s Theoretical Psychology: The Sensory Order (Paul Lewis – SSRN)
- Mr. Haltiwanger and the Austrians (Brian Albrecht – Economic Forces)
- The paradox of effective altruism (Tomasz Kopczewski & Iana Okhrimenko – JIE)
- The use of knowledge in open-ended systems (Abigail Devereaux & Roger Koppl – Arvix)
- Coevolution and dynamic processes (Almudi, Fatas‑Villafranca, Foster & Potts – REPE)
Other:
- DOGE kills its first bill, Zuck vs OpenAl, Google’s Al comeback (All-In) 🎥
- Nobel Minds 2024 🎥
- 86 Stories of Progress from 2024 (Hervey, Rose, Koren & Boyd – Fix The News)
- How Socio-Economic Background Shapes Academia (Abramitzky, Greska, Pérez, Price, Schwarz & Waldinger)
Thibault Schrepel
@ProfSchrepel
