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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 2021. 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:
- Stanford Computational Antitrust project
- Computational Antitrust: An Introduction and Research Agenda (Thibault Schrepel – Stanford Comp. Antitrust)
- Be Careful What You Wish For (Pablo Ibáñez Colomo – Concurrentialiste)
- The world’s most downloaded antitrust articles of 2020 (Concurrentialiste)
- Antitrust watchdogs around the world are going back to school to study blockchain and AI (Kollen Post – Cointelegraph)
- The Interbeing of Law and Economics: Building Bridges, Not Walls (Anna Tzanaki – SSRN)
- Green Antitrust: Friendly Fire in the Fight against Climate Change (Schinkel & Treuren – Concurrences)
- What Can Competition Law Achieve in Digital Markets? (Pablo Ibáñez Colomo – SSRN)
- The Forgotten Strand of the Anti-Monopoly Tradition in Anglo-American Law (Ben Sperry – Truth on the Market)
- Separation of Powers and Antitrust: On Common Grounds? (Vincent Martenet – SSRN)
- ROSS Files Antitrust Claim Against Thomson Reuters, Alleging Research Monopoly (Bob Ambrogi – LawSites)
Blockchain & artificial intelligence:
- DALL·E: Creating Images from Text DALL·E: Creating Images from Text (OpenAI)
- Competing with new combinations: the case of DALL·E (Thibault Schrepel – Concurrentialiste)
- Reddit and Gamestop? Trevor explains…from a bathtub (Trevor Noah – The Daily Show) 🎥
- Cryptocurrencies, Foreign Threats, & the Fight of a Generation (Demetri Kofinas – Hidden Forces) 🎧
- Biden to pick blockchain scholar to head SEC regulator (Ovunc Kutlu – AA)
- The Cryptocurrency Market Is Now Worth More Than $1 Trillion (Liam Frost – Decrypt)
- Developers as Creatives (a16z) 🎧
- New Crypto Rules in the European Union: Gateway for Mass Adoption, or Excessive Regulation? (Patrick Hansen – RegTrax)
- Microsoft and EY unveil blockchain contract management platform for gaming partners (Saniya More – The Block)
- Rick & Morty Creator Is Selling NFT Artwork on Ethereum (Shaurya Malwa – Decrypt)
- Brave private browser integrates IPFS support to desktop version (Helen Partz – Cointelegraph)
- Brave browser takes step toward enabling a decentralized web (Jon Porter – The Verge)
- Early CryptoPunk Digital Collectible Sells for $762K in Ether (Zack Seward – CoinDesk)
- This 2-Acre Vertical Farm Is Managed by AI and Robots and Uses 99% Less Land (Samantha Pires – My Modern Met)
Big Tech:
- The great unbundling (Benedict Evans)
- Advanced Technologies Adoption and Use by U.S. Firms (Zolas & al)
- Notes on technology in the 2020s (Eli Dourado)
- Internet 3.0 and the Beginning of (Tech) History (Ben Thompson – Stratechery)
- They Found a Way to Limit Big Tech’s Power: Using the Design of Bitcoin (Nathaniel Popper – NYTimes)
- Facebook reportedly preparing to file antitrust suit against Apple (Duncan Riley – Silicon Angle)
Econ:
- The Impact of Regulation on Innovation (Aghion & al – NBER)
- The Easterbrook Theorem: An Application to Digital Markets (Wright & Mungan – Yale Law Journal)
- Judicial ideology in economic cases (Wijtvliet & Dyevre – European Union Politics)
- How Amazon’s Super-Complex Shipping System Works (Wendover – YouTube) 🎥
- Buchanan (Don Boudreaux & Russ Roberts – EconTalk) 🎧
- Nudging at scale: Experimental evidence from FAFSA completion campaigns (Bird & al. – Journal Econ. Behavior & Org.)
- On the recent philosophy of decision theory (Ivan Moscati – Journal Econ. Methodology)
- Stanford researchers observe decision making in the brain – and influence the outcomes (Taylor Kubota – Stanford News)
- Prediction Consensus: What the Experts See Coming in 2021 (Nick Routley – Visual Capitalist)
- How Economics Lost Itself in Data (Alexander William Salter – WSJ)
Other:
- Fork The Government (Planet Money)
- Measuring Law Over Time (Coupette & al – SSRN)
- Here’s What Traveling By Hyperloop Could Look Like (Virgin – YouTube) 🎥
- Wikipedia is 20, and its reputation has never been higher (The Economist)
- Modernizing Regulatory Review (White House)
- Who Will Control the Software That Powers the Internet? (Chris Dixon – Andreessen Horowitz)
- Deplatforming: Following extreme Internet celebrities to Telegram (Richard Rogers – Eur. J. Communication)
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Dr. Thibault Schrepel
(@LeConcurrential)
