Pluralistic: How tech does regulatory capture; Part 2 of the Red Team Blues serial (18 Apr 2023)

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How tech does regulatory capture: An extremely frank and open look inside the ugliest of sausage-factories.
Red Team Blues Chapter One, part two: How Danny Lazer came back from the brink.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes (12 Apr 2023)

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Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes: Twiddled to death through algorithmic wage discrimination.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: Poor people pay higher time tax (10 Feb 2023)

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Poor people pay higher time tax: The rich truly do get more hours in the day.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: This "inflation" is different (14 Dec 2022)

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This "inflation" is different: New Stiglitz just dropped.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: 03 Oct 2022 An antitrust murder whodunnit

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An antitrust murder whodunnit: I accuse Judge Bork with the Powell Memo in the smoke-filled room.
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Pluralistic: 06 Jun 2022

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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.
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Pluralistic: 16 Mar 2022

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The role of prose quality in scholarship: Better-edited papers fare better in peer-reviewed journals.
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Pluralistic: 02 Mar 2022

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Defi and Shadow Banking 2.0: Leverage, rigidity and bank runs.
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Pluralistic: 10 Feb 2022

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Welcome to the Palmerverse: Ada Palmer's Renaissance-informed science fictional futurism.
SEC vs private equity ripoffs: Personnel really are policy.
Neuromancer today: Eileen Gunn on the enduring significance and wonder of William Gibson.
Gators and Amazon tag-team small sellers: Amazon's bad conduct is good for (a certain kind of) business.
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Pluralistic: 05 Feb 2022

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How to design an anti-monopoly interop system: On the colossal bad faith of Subaru and Kia.
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