Pluralistic: 13 Jun 2022

Today's links

Podcasting "Regulatory Capture": My column about the difference between a left and a right theory of sound regulation.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2012, 2017.
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 06 Jun 2022

Today's links

Podcasting "Against Cozy Catastrophes": My Medium column about the failure of market-based pensions.
MBAs and wage stagnation: Going to business school makes you a dick.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 17 Mar 2022

Today's links

Late stage capitalism is weird capitalism: A planned economy run by Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2017, 2021
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 16 Mar 2022

Today's links

The role of prose quality in scholarship: Better-edited papers fare better in peer-reviewed journals.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2012, 2017, 2021
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 13 Feb 2022

Today's links

Podcasting Part II of "The Internet Heist": Big Content wants to plug your A-Hole!
Comprehensive synthesis of the technological, ecological and political critique of blockchainism: It's all about the externalities.
Eating invasive species: How to structure an invasivorism that doesn't hunger for more invaders.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 02 Feb 2022

Today's links

To fight inflation, fight monopolies: Cartels raise prices using supply chain and "generous" benefits as cover for price-gouging.
How noncompetes shackle workers to dead-end jobs: "You can't work for anyone who competes with Amazon for the next 18 months."
Agricultural right to repair law is a no-brainer: Farmer-tinkerer solidarity.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 05 Jan 2022

Today's links

Hospital beds are a monopoly: The casket to hospital bed monopoly pipeline.
This day in history: 2007, 2017, 2021
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 20 Oct 2021

Today's links

Copyleft lawsuit against Vizio will allow anyone to defend the commons: Software Freedom Conservancy realizes the dream of "Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement."
The monopoly strategy behind the Google/Microsoft mobile patent wars: The victory condition isn't highest profits, it's market dominance.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020.
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 18 Oct 2021

Today's links

Corporatism made John Deere ripe for a strike: Optimized for failure.
Copyfraudster censors investigation of implausible covid gadget: When a US law is used to censor Indian scientific reporting.
At last, a new Econ 101 textbook: CORE's "The Economy" vs homo economicus.
Podcasting "Dead Letters": Email could be the last federated internet technology – but it isn't.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: 12 Oct 2021

Today's links

This Thing Between Us, a neck-hair-stand-up cuycuy horror: Gus Moreno's debut novel.
There are no corporate criminals in America: Because America doesn't have corporate crime prosecutions.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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