While the eyes of much of the country were on Pennsylvania and Georgia last week, the tech community was focused on Cincinnati, where the US Court of Appeals for the…
| November 8, 2024
It’s an all-too-predictable, rinse-and-repeat pattern: (1) A state adopts a statute to protect minors from the social media’s supposedly deleterious effects; (2) the law is challenged on First Amendment grounds; (3) a…
By Clay Calvert | November 7, 2024
What separates the companies that successfully pivot from those that become cautionary tales in business history? How do government regulations either foster or hinder innovation in today’s tech landscape? And…
By Shane Tews | November 7, 2024
Abstract Given the political and public interest in rising industry concentration in developed economies, researchers have been working on uncovering underlying mechanisms and implications. Various causes of concentration have been…
By Mark Jamison | Jakub Tecza | November 6, 2024
The Program on the Economics of Privacy at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School has been looking at empirical evidence around people’s privacy interests. Among their recent presentations was a paper in progress…
By Jim Harper | November 5, 2024
Economist Deirdre McCloskey opens The Narrative of Economic Expertise with an observation that blew me away when I read it as an undergraduate: It is pretty clear that an economist, like a…
By Will Rinehart | November 4, 2024
Much digital ink has been spilled over The Washington Post’s decision to forgo endorsing a presidential candidate this year. The Post frames this as a return to its roots, with owner Jeff Bezos reportedly viewing it…
By Mark Jamison | November 4, 2024
In the early days of the internet, a commonly-heard mantra was “information wants to be free.” To many, this meant no charges should be imposed for either the use of…
By Bronwyn Howell | November 1, 2024
Arriving at the polls on November 5, some voters will be tempted to capture and post a selfie with their completed ballot, perhaps to let followers know who they voted…
By Clay Calvert | October 29, 2024
As president, Bill Clinton had failures, both personal and professional, but one thing he got right during his time in office was the Framework for Global Electronic Commerce. Released in July…
By Will Rinehart | October 28, 2024
Quick Response (QR) codes, those black and white squares whose popularity surged with the rise of contactless interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic, from restaurant menus to parking meters, have become…
By Shane Tews | October 25, 2024
AEI Scholar Benjamin Zycher contributed to the Dispatch’s Symposium titled Regulatory Policy Experts: Both Harris and Trump Threaten Constraints on Innovation, as a group of experts outlined the many ways in…
By Benjamin Zycher | October 23, 2024
U.S. climate policies, designed to yield a utopia of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by, say, 2050, are preposterous. The costs are massive. Consumer resistance is such that important components of the policy agenda are…
By Benjamin Zycher | October 23, 2024
The US Supreme Court’s 2024 rulings involving social media platforms and First Amendment issues provided fodder for earlier posts drilling into matters such as the right to listenand Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s prominent…
By Clay Calvert | October 23, 2024
The July 17, 1916, edition of The Asheville Citizen could have easily been reprinted late last month and maintained its relevance: “Asheville today is absolutely isolated from the outside world, is a city…
By Will Rinehart | October 21, 2024