#Competition

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

2020 was a shitty year for most things, but it was a banner year for books about fighting monopolies, and for the fight itself. It started (in Dec '19) with

Peter Wells

peterkwells

Woke up to hear people on the radio chatting about data monetisation & individual ownership rights as a path to online services that work better for consumersWinter went fast, competition

Nancy

Nancy90324264

If women are in a biologically defined and protected "glass ceiling" category (for example Kamala Harris) then why can't they defend themselves as a protected category? When women were denied

Bruno Waterfield

BrunoBrussels

Everyone's briefing on the LPF/gov blockage is so fuzzy and hazy. No one, EU or UK, will say what is rhe ask on how equivalence/divergence is measured or what is

Simon Rabinovitch

S_Rabinovitch

Small windows (literally) onto the intense (as in, crazy intense) competition in some parts of the Chinese economy: the cluster of independent coffee shops that have sprung up near our

Cassie Mannes Murray

cassmannes

If there’s one thing I’ve learned on my two year anniversary in publishing, it’s not to rush. Good work, great work, takes time, stewing, perspective. Ignore the lists. Ignore the

Cathryn Townsend, PhD.

CathrynTownsend

Just started reading this book where @AthenaAktipis argues that "our very existence as multicellular organisms - as paragons of multicellular cooperation - is inextricably tied to our susceptibility to cancer."

Pallavi Guniganti

PGunigantiAT

Am reading @LongmanPhil "The Case for Small-Business Cooperation," which is interesting but despite some effort, doesn't seem quite fully engaged with the views of people who disagree. Eg it characterizes

David R. Agrawal

DavidRAgrawal

How do local governments set policy in the presence of mobile factors, spillovers, and information flows? For answers, see our article "Local Policy Choice: Theory and Empirics" (w/ @WilliamHHoyt and

Boston City Archives

ArchivesBoston

#onthisday in 1969, Boston's City Hall was dedicated. City Hall's brutalist design was chosen in a design competition that took place in 1962. Today, we're taking a look at the

Dr Camilla Mørk Røstvik

CRostvik

There's always been a lot of creativity in menstrual advertising. In the 1970s, this was cause for concern. In 1977, a UK House of Commons commission on menstrual product prices

Elsa B. Kania

EBKania

I am struggling to articulate a coherent response to this direction in American diplomacy, which is at once unsurprising and a continuation of recent trends, yet terribly consequential nonetheless.https://www.wsj.com/articles/secretary-of-s

Ian Martiszus 🇺🇸

IanFelipeSays

Proudly misinformed voters think its OK for drug addicted and mentally ill homeless people to rot in the streets. Proudly misinformed voters think its OK to raise children around homeless

Paul Sabin

SabinAnalytics

Thread on College QB's and the draft.Things to consider:1. Data (including scout's evaluations)2. High ceiling or low floor?3. Experience? Does it matter?4. Biases in data? (schedule, supporting cast, injuries)5. CFB

Anton Spisak

AntonSpisak

It'd be a pity if the deal collapsed on the ratchet clause. There's a sensible middle ground here if the UK and the EU can agree to a clear process

Greg Ip

greg_ip

1/ China beat the U.S. in 2020 because its authoritarian, centralized system better met the challenge of Covid and economic conflict than the U.S.' pluralistic, decentralized system. Will China keep

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