Tech
What Makes Tech Platforms So Powerful?
What are the bases of the digital platforms’ power? In Chapter 3 of our Digital Platforms and Concentration ebook in advance of this month’s...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (March 17-March 24)
This week in political economy.
The “techlash” against digital platforms went into hyperdrive this week, as Facebook became increasingly embroiled in the Cambridge Analytica...
The Motives of “Joiners” Explain Higher Rates of Innovation in Startup Firms
It’s not just the founders of startups who boast an entrepreneurial spirit and a willingness to take risks. Those who join new ventures show...
The Stigler Center Dedicates Second Annual Antitrust and Competition Conference to Digital Platforms and Concentration
The invitation-only conference will bring together economists, law scholars, intellectuals, venture capitalists, and businesspeople to debate how to promote competition in a world of...
Are Innovators Born or Made?
The question of whether people are born with innovative talent or can develop it has knock-on effects to issues ranging from productivity growth in...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Feb. 24–March 3)
This week in political economy.
Italy’s elections are on Sunday, and with the polls being inconclusive and the reemergence of former PM Silvio Berlusconi...
Where Will the Crypto Craze Lead? A Venture Capitalist’s View
Can individual cryptocurrencies be programmed with stability in mind and if so, could a plethora of cryptocurrencies exhibit, in the aggregate, stable behaviors?
By now,...
Death by Regulation: How Regulations that Once Protected the Taxi Industry Now Threaten its Existence
New study by researchers at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University highlights the need to rethink taxi regulations.
“The natural progress of things,” Jefferson...
