This post features my latest reading suggestions based on the academic papers and press articles that I enjoyed reading in June 2022. As I tend to favor the active sharing of open-source publications, you can follow me on Twitter (@ProfSchrepel) or LinkedIn (here) to access similar articles on a more regular basis.
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Antitrust:
- Mergers in the Digital Economy (Renato Nazzini – Network Law Review)
- A Riff and a Half on the Delineation of Relevant Markets in Antitrust Cases (Lawrence J. White – Network Law Review)
- The Adoption of Computational Antitrust by Agencies: 2021 Report (Thibault Schrepel & Teodora Groza – Stanford)
- Criminal Enforcement of Section 2 of the Sherman Act: An Empirical Assessment (Dan Crane – SSRN)
- Proposed Antitrust Reforms in Big Tech: What Do They Imply for Competition and Innovation? (Erik Hovenkamp – CPI)
- When Picking Judges, Democrats Need to Stop Ignoring Economics (Binyamin Applebaum – NYTimes)
- The General Court annuls the Commission decision imposing on Qualcomm a fine of approximately €1 billion (ECJ)
- Antitrust and Innovation Competition (Daniel F. Spulber – Journal Antitrust Enforcement)
Blockchain:
- Marc Andreessen on Software, Immortality, and Bitcoin (Marc Andreessen & Russ Roberts – EconTalk) 🎧
- Metaverse Land: What Makes Digital Real Estate Valuable (Scott Duke Kominers – a16z)
- Where to use a blockchain in non-financial applications? (Vitalik Buterin)
- Currencies, banks and finance: towards a new crypto era (Pierre Person – French Parliament)
- Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: Beyond the Hype (World Economic Forum)
- Netscape creator says Web3 really is like the rise of the early internet (Tom Mitchellhill – Coin Telegraph)
- Senate Bill Would End SEC’s Oversight of Most Crypto, Create $200 Tax Exemption (Jeff Roberts – Decrypt)
- ‘Snow Crash’ Author Neal Stephenson Is Building a ‘Free Metaverse’ Called Lamina1 (Jason Nelson – Decrypt)
- A Tool for Detecting Metamorphic Smart Contracts (Michael Blau – a16z)
Artificial Intelligence:
- Techniques for Training Large Neural Networks (Lilian Weng & Greg Brockman – OpenAI)
- Yann LeCun has a bold new vision for the future of AI (Melissa Heikkilä & Will Douglas Heaven – MIT Tech Rev)
- The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life (Nitasha Tiku – WaPo)
- Government AI Readiness Index 2021 (Oxford Insights)
Digital economy:
- Thin Platforms (Ben Thompson – Stratchery)
- Idea machines (Nadia Asparouhova)
- Echo Chambers, Rabbit Holes, and Algorithmic Bias (Brown et al. – SSRN)
- The emergence of polarization in coevolving networks (Liu et al. – Arxiv)
- Peter Thiel helped build big tech. Now he wants to tear it all down (Elizabeth Dwoskin – WaPo)
- ‘Find the smartest technologist in the company and make them CEO’ (McKinsey Quarterly)
Digital Law:
- An Open Letter from Internet Law Scholars to the United States Congress
- The Sanitised Platform (Rachel Griffin – SSRN)
- The Court considers that respect for fundamental rights requires that the powers provided for by the PNR Directive be limited to what is strictly necessary
Other:
- A Philosopher’s Case Against Death (Ingemar Patrick Linden – MIT Press Reader)
- Dall-E mini
- The Fate of Moral Philosophy in an Age of Economic Scientism (Peter J. Boettke – GMU)
- The Shape of Music: Mathematical Order in Western Tonality (Dmitri Tymoczko & Michael Garfield – Complexity)
Thibault Schrepel
@ProfSchrepel
