In just the past day or so, Bluesky has reached 15 million followers having doubled its user base in the past 90 days including over 1 million in the past week alone. The proximate cause for the shift is related … Continued
Yesterday, the World Medical Association updated its core set of ethical principles for medical research (known as the Declaration of Helsinki) for the first time in 11 years. The revisions seek to modernize protections including new language on justice, public health, vulnerability … Continued
October is a busy month for the International Energy Agency (IEA). Two weeks ago, they released their flagship report, the World Energy Outlook, which explores pathways to net zero as well as less ambitious scenarios. The report highlights the impacts … Continued
In class, we quickly touched on your initial reaction to the long list of the most influential technologies in history but our weekly blog gives you a chance to reflect, expand, and think more deeply about this topic. It also … Continued
This past week, the Nobel prizes were awarded to several worthy recipients. It is not that unusual to have recipients who have worked on topics relevant to technology policy, such as Bill Nordhaus on climate change economics (2018), or Emmanuelle … Continued
Welcome to TP1! Every week this term we will be addressing an issue ripped from the day’s headlines and what better way to start then focusing on recent developments regarding the growing number of lawsuits against Google? This past August, … Continued
Last week, NASA launched the first spacecraft intended to deflect an asteroid. The asteroid in question is 6 million miles away, but the goal of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is to push the asteroid and see what happens … Continued
Christos has suggested this week’s topic of Competition and Algorithmic pricing. His suggestion is motivated by these two recent papers: Mackay and Brown (2021) ‘Competition in Algorithmic Pricing‘ and Assad et al (2020) on the use of algo pricing in German … Continued
Arm Holdings is the largest company in Cambridge, or at least it was until it was acquired shortly after the Brexit vote in 2016, by Softbank, the Japanese conglomerate. One reason Arm is not terribly well known (even in Cambridge!) … Continued
Our ‘textbook’ discussion of how regulation can be justified was in the context of market failures. Using this lens, most of the historical cases seem pretty straightforward (at least in retrospect!). But (how) should regulation address something novel like non-fungible tokens … Continued