Technology & Innovation
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Crying Wolf: Why Negotiating Lower Drug Prices Will Not Harm Pharmaceutical Innovation
Jul 22, 2024
Increasing evidence that the IRA is probably not harming pharmaceutical innovation.
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Working Paper
Implications of the Inflation Reduction Act for the Biotechnology Industry
Jul 2024
Sensitivity of investment and valuation to drug price indices and market conditions
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How Do Tech Innovations Really Spread? New Evidence
Jul 11, 2024
New technologies appear to yield long-lasting benefits for the pioneer locations where they were originally developed.
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Working Paper
The Diffusion of New Technologies
Jul 2024
The concentration of innovation in a handful of urban centers engenders large and persistent regional disparities in economic opportunity.
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Musk and Tesla: Compensation or Control?
Jun 18, 2024
The $48 Billion Stock-Option Package and its Implications for the EV Transition
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Antitrust Policy and Artificial Intelligence: Some Neglected Issues
Jun 10, 2024
An ensemble of mechanisms enables cloud hegemons (Microsoft, Google, Amazon) to plan the whole AI knowledge and innovation network by weaponizing interdependence in networks.
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Experts: Negotiating Big Pharma's Prices Won't Stifle Innovation—They Don't Use the Money to Innovate!
Mar 14, 2024
Industry lobbyists vehemently oppose Medicare drug price negotiations. However, physician-scientist Fred Ledley and economist William Lazonick debunk their arguments.
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LEPC VI: Ideas for Building the Future
ConferenceFeb 16–18, 2024
India: Climate Change, Technology, and Growth
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How GM’s $10-Billion Buyback May Ice Its EV Transition
Dec 18, 2023
Reindustrialization vs Financialization
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What Does Mustard Gas Have in Common with Crypto and Blockchain?
Nov 20, 2023
In his new book, Let Them Eat Crypto, Peter Howson cautions that the technologies are not just fraudulent but causing indefensible harm to both humanity and the planet.
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Jim Chanos: “The Crypto Ecosystem Is Well-Suited for the Dark Side of Finance.”
Nov 9, 2023
The famed short-seller talks Sam Bankman-Fried, why Wall Street is still so keen on crypto, and how technology is making us dumber.
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The Golden Age of AI Complementarity?
Oct 30, 2023
Recent developments in AI have added fuel to debates that have long simmered amongst economists, which could lead to a rethinking of economics itself.
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Everyone Versus Google: Will Big Tech Be Held Accountable?
Sep 28, 2023
The tech giant is in the hot seat, but it’s going to be a “big fight,” warns antitrust expert Mark Glick.
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How Shareholder Value Fixation Turns AI and Robotics into a Recipe for Failure
Sep 11, 2023
New technologies are not the problem. It’s a system distorted by a flawed ideology.
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Labor Economist: AI May Bring a Boom in Horrible Jobs
Aug 28, 2023
Losing jobs isn’t the only thing workers have to worry about. AI may make many jobs worse.