Copyfight After industry adopts open video standards, MPEG founder says the end is nigh Cory Doctorow
books Why are we still treating economics as if it were an empirical science that makes reliable predictions? Cory Doctorow
denialism A new biography reveals the Koch brothers' very early role in creating organized climate denial Cory Doctorow
monopolism Share prices slide as DOJ announces sweeping antitrust investigations of Big Tech Cory Doctorow
uk After the Oliver Twist poorhouse became luxury housing with a segregated playground, London bans segregated play-areas Cory Doctorow
Business Structural Separation: antitrust's tried-and-true weapon for monopolists who bottleneck markets Cory Doctorow
elections The eminently electable Bernie Sanders enjoys strong support from African-Americans and young people Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Big Tech got big because we stopped enforcing antitrust law (not because tech is intrinsically monopolistic) Cory Doctorow
books America, Compromised: Lawrence Lessig explains corruption in words small enough for the Supreme Court to understand Cory Doctorow
scholarship Large scale psych study identifies "homo economicus" as the source of all evil in the world Cory Doctorow
scholarship How an influential economics paper used imaginary environmental overregulation to spur low-density luxury housing Cory Doctorow
uspoli Architect of Reagan's tax cuts reminds us that tax cuts don't stimulate the economy Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Tim Harford's bite-sized "Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy" Cory Doctorow
Business Amazon is the poster child for everything wrong with post-Reagan anti-trust enforcement Cory Doctorow
uspoli After a century of resisting monopolies, Democrats became the party of finance capitalism and it cost them the election Cory Doctorow
politics Technology's "culture of compliance" must be beaten back in the name of justice Cory Doctorow
Business Cuba's free med schools are the meritocratic institutions that America's private system can't match Cory Doctorow
