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This post features my latest reading suggestions based on the academic papers and press articles that I enjoyed reading in November 2022. As I tend to favor the active sharing of open-source publications, you can follow me on Twitter (@ProfSchrepel) or LinkedIn (here) to find out about similar articles on a more regular basis. The Network Law Review also is on Twitter (@NetworkLawRev) and LinkedIn (here).
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Antitrust:
- How Do Vertical Mergers Affect Innovation? Learning from Illumina (Spulber – Network Law Review)
- Innovation & Profitability Following Antitrust Intervention Against A Dominant Platform (Thatchenkery al.)
- Anticompetitive State Regulation (Page & Lopatka – Network Law Review)
- Neoclassical Competition Policy Without Apology (Jorge Padilla – SSRN)
- The New Approach to Article 22 Referrals through an Ordoliberal Lens (Esat Çınar – Network Law Review)
- The Revival of Antitrust Policy (Don Boudreaux & Rosolino Candela – Hayek Program Podcast)
- Facebook’s Monopoly Is Imploding Before Our Eyes (Edward Ongweso Jr – Vice)
Blockchain:
- Elon Musk, Twitter, Dogecoin, Bluesky, and the Decentralized Social Media Race (Daniel Roberts – Decrypt)
- The Crypto Story (Matt Levine – Bloomberg)
- Does The Peer Review Process Need Blockchain? (Richard Sprague – Neo.Life)
- U.S. Attorney Announces Historic $3.36 Billion Cryptocurrency Seizure (DoJ)
- Digital Asset Innovations & Regulatory Fragmentation: The SEC vs the CFTC (Guseva & Hutton – SSRN)
- The End of the ‘Centralization Era’ in Crypto (Shingo Lavine & Adam Lavine – CoinDesk)
- Crypto Can Survive the Possible Demise of FTX (Tyler Cowan – Bloomberg)
Artificial Inteligence:
- Where will AI go next? (Melissa Heikkiläarchive – MIT Tech Review)
- Computation used to train notable artificial intelligence systems (Our World in Data)
- Comments on Commercial Surveillance by AI Bots (AI Bots, under Neil Chilson’s supervision)
Digital Economy + Digital Laws:
- The Not-So-Pathetic Dot Theory (Thibault Schrepel – Network Law Review)
- Why Technology Still Matters (Marc Andreessen – a16z podcast) 🎧
- “Technopolarity” Is Not a Thing (Daniel W. Drezner – Drezner’s World)
- The EU’s new Digital Services Act and the Rest of the World (Daphne Keller – Verfassungsblog)
- Internet fragmentation and coercive diplomacy in the 21st century (Juan Ortiz Freuler – Global Media)
- Scientifically proven: The EU is incomprehensible (Sarah Wheaton – Politico)
- Big Telco’ Proposal To Force Websites To Pay Them Puts The Internet At Risk (Barbara van Schewick)
Economics:
- The Effect of Venture Funding on Killer Acquisitions (Thibault Schrepel – Network Law Review)
- Teaching economics, appreciating spontaneous order, and economics as a public science (Peter Boettke)
- The Revenue-Evil Curve: a different way to think about prioritizing public goods funding (Vitalik Buterin)
- Silicon Valley layoffs aren’t just a cost-cutting measure. They’re a culture reset. (Amanda Lewellyn — Vox)
- Scope, Scale and Concentration: The 21st Century Firm (Gerard Hoberg & Gordon M. Phillips – NBER)
Other:
- The Network State (Balaji Srinivasan – a16z podcast) 🎧
- The Future of the Metaverse (Neal Stephenson – a16z podcast) 🎧
- What is complexity science and why should you care about it? (Simplifying Complexity – Sean Brady) 🎧
- A Letter to the CFTC (Rajiv Sethi – Imperfect Information)
Thibault Schrepel
@ProfSchrepel
