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a review of the scholarly literature", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2019/advertising-uneasy-persuasion-or-means-of-social-engineering/", "published_at": "2019-08-19T12:48:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac21d08df09", "title": "How does the use of GPS affect people?", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2019/studies-exploring-gps-adoption/", "published_at": "2019-08-09T13:49:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac21d95a63c", "title": "The end of the monopoly era in newspapers", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2019/the-ancien-regime-of-newspapers/", "published_at": "2019-08-02T14:32:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac21e897543", "title": "Privacy cost estimation", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2019/privacy-cost-estimation/", "published_at": "2019-07-30T19:17:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac21eb97d85", "title": "There are good reasons to be skeptical that automation will unravel the labor market", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2019/there-are-good-reasons-to-be-skeptical-that-automation-will-unravel-the-labor-market/", "published_at": "2019-07-08T20:19:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac21f5c8a30", "title": "Reviving the Office of Technology Assessment would require a set of specific conditions in Congress. We have simply not arrived at that time.", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2019/reviving-the-office-of-technology-assessment-would-require-a-set-of-specific-conditions-in-congress-we-have-simply-not-arrived-at-that-time/", "published_at": "2019-06-15T13:20:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac21f7c602c", "title": "Rural broadband isn't like rural electrification, it is actually much harder", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2019/rural-broadband-isnt-like-rural-electrification-it-is-so-much-harder/", "published_at": "2019-04-08T20:51:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac21f9cb253", "title": "An Esoteric Reading of LM Sacasas", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2019/an-esoteric-reading-of-lm-sacasas/", "published_at": "2019-02-26T14:54:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac21fbfad36", "title": "The kids are going to be alright", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2019/the-kids-are-going-to-be-alright/", "published_at": "2019-01-17T16:07:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac22041bf43", "title": "If you’re worried about net neutrality, put your reputation on the line and make a prediction about the future", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2018/if-youre-worried-about-net-neutrality-put-your-reputation-on-the-line-and-make-a-prediction-about-the-future/", "published_at": "2018-12-17T14:10:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac220c3f87a", "title": "Three short responses to the pacing problem of tech policy", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2018/three-short-responses-to-the-pacing-problem/", "published_at": "2018-11-27T17:16:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac220fdfbab", "title": "Is there a kill zone in tech?", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2018/is-there-a-kill-zone-in-tech/", "published_at": "2018-11-07T22:24:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac2211f5b8c", "title": "Book Review: Cathy O’Neil’s \"Weapons of Math Destruction\"", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2018/book-review-cathy-oneils-weapons-of-math-destruction/", "published_at": "2018-11-07T17:01:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac2221b250c", "title": "A new survey of rural Americans should make us underweight rural broadband", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2018/should-the-new-npr-poll-on-rural-america-make-you-reconsider-your-view-of-rural-broadband-development/", "published_at": "2018-10-17T15:42:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac222558ce8", "title": "A defense of optimism", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2018/in-defense-of-techno-optimism/", "published_at": "2018-10-10T18:05:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac222dfd99c", "title": "Should the US adopt the GDPR?", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2018/should-the-us-adopt-the-gdpr/", "published_at": "2018-10-01T16:50:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac22331712e", "title": "How should privacy be defined? A roadmap", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2018/how-should-privacy-be-defined-a-roadmap/", "published_at": "2018-08-06T12:00:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac224140264", "title": "The definition of technology matters for tech policy and growth", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2018/the-definition-of-technology-matters-for-tech-policy-and-growth/", "published_at": "2018-08-02T19:22:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac2241c56a3", "title": "Why did the Facebook stock drop last week? Some economics of decision-making", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2018/why-did-the-facebook-stock-drop-last-week-some-economics-of-decision-making/", "published_at": "2018-07-31T22:15:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac224948c90", "title": "It's not all bad; Facebook, Google, Reddit, and Twitter also support positive communities", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2018/the-online-public-sphere-or-facebook-google-reddit-and-twitter-also-support-positive-communities/", "published_at": "2018-07-11T15:40:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac224f0be73", "title": "Did the Supreme Court get the market definition correct in the Amex case?", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2018/did-the-amex-case-get-the-market-definition-correct/", "published_at": "2018-07-06T20:22:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac225a1fd89", "title": "Mandating AI fairness may come at the expense of other types of fairness", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2018/mandating-ai-fairness-may-come-at-the-expense-of-other-types-of-fairness/", "published_at": "2018-06-21T18:12:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac225abc6ba", "title": "How much is music worth?", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2015/how-much-is-music-worth/", "published_at": "2015-04-22T13:02:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac225eb74c5", "title": "Breaking into the regulation market", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2015/breaking-into-the-regulation-market/", "published_at": "2015-04-09T14:00:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac226bf64e2", "title": "Demand led growth in social media", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2015/demand-led-growth-in-social-media/", "published_at": "2015-04-06T19:48:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac227411658", "title": "Why It’s Important That The Internet Created Technopopulism", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2015/the-internet-created-technopopulism/", "published_at": "2015-04-06T15:45:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac228286271", "title": "When shall innovation come? A rejoinder to Jacobin’s Red Innovation issue", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2015/whence-shall-innovation-come-a-rejoinder-to-jacobin/", "published_at": "2015-04-03T15:12:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c62-cdc9-70bd-83bf-1ac228ee06bd", "title": "The political principal-agent problem", "url": "https://www.williamrinehart.com/2015/the-political-principal-agent-problem/", "published_at": "2015-04-01T19:49:36+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog

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2025

RIA analysis original ↗

30 Oct 2025

Public policy cheatsheet original ↗

24 May 2025

2024

Notes on time: economics, discounting, innovation, etc.original ↗

19 Aug 2024

2023

A list of space and defense projects original ↗

8 Dec 2023

Should robots be taxed?original ↗

1 Sept 2023

Regulatory notes and fiscal note reform original ↗

18 May 2023

ChatGPT prompts + code for economists original ↗

17 May 2023

Abundance agenda original ↗

4 May 2023

Housing and urbanism FAQ original ↗

9 Mar 2023

May you live in interesting times, or just another AI hype cycle original ↗

21 Feb 2023

Neoliberalism in the university: why the Marxists don’t take the analysis far enough original ↗

16 Feb 2023

2022

How to reverse the vetocracy original ↗

29 Nov 2022

A reading list to understand bureaucracy original ↗

7 Sept 2022

Defining knowledge, tacit knowledge, local knowledge, and others original ↗

6 Sept 2022

All the ways Millennials and Gen Z are different original ↗

29 Aug 2022

Is Internet access like electricity? (Is Internet access a general purpose technology?)original ↗

1 Aug 2022

A compilation of my recent broadband work and broadband maps!original ↗

25 Jul 2022

Where Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) goes awry original ↗

22 Jun 2022

Notes on space capitalism original ↗

21 Jun 2022

Some resources for conducting public policy analysis, using James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as an example original ↗

23 May 2022

Teens and the impact of social media, a deep dive into recent work from Haidt original ↗

5 May 2022

Where broadband likely exists in the United States; an estimation of the broadband gap using logit models original ↗

28 Apr 2022

Musk wants to make Twitter open source. What does that mean?original ↗

27 Apr 2022

The costs of CEQA original ↗

11 Mar 2022

February 2022 Links original ↗

4 Mar 2022

MrBeast confirms the importance of Buchanan's "Order Defined in the Process of its Emergence"original ↗

3 Mar 2022

Is cost stopping people from getting online?original ↗

1 Mar 2022

2021

Notes on automation original ↗

8 Dec 2021

Random research in politics, economics, firms, etc.original ↗

6 Dec 2021

Nov 2021 Links original ↗

6 Dec 2021

Excessive veto power is holding back progress in the United States original ↗

2 Nov 2021

Today’s one-dollar delay is worth $39 billion in the future, some comments on Cowen’s Stubborn Attachments original ↗

29 Oct 2021

My Substack post original ↗

20 Oct 2021

The butler did it.original ↗

30 Sept 2021

Philosophy of tech, an outline of theories original ↗

22 Jun 2021

Research paper dump June 2021 original ↗

16 Jun 2021

From my recent CSPAN appearance: We need technological atonement original ↗

11 Jun 2021

Notes on McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy original ↗

8 Jun 2021

Links May 2021 original ↗

7 Jun 2021

Social media research, a constantly updating bibliography original ↗

1 Jun 2021

When an online community migrates original ↗

28 May 2021

[Tech sequence] My fundamental theorems of cognition, technology, and the social original ↗

28 May 2021

The Millennial wealth gap original ↗

19 May 2021

Notes on economic short-termism original ↗

12 May 2021

The rural broadband penalty original ↗

6 May 2021

Links April 2021 original ↗

3 May 2021

Links February 2021 original ↗

5 Mar 2021

What I think I am nearly certain about original ↗

22 Feb 2021

Estimates of broadband deployment costs original ↗

10 Feb 2021

COVID-19 and the relocalization of politics original ↗

10 Feb 2021

Big tech, regulation, and the Spence distortion original ↗

25 Jan 2021

I still find it deeply ironic that Noam Chomsky signed the Harper's Magazine letter original ↗

20 Jan 2021

Some unstructured thoughts on Trump, Twitter, Parler and the last two weeks in tech original ↗

18 Jan 2021

2020

Links October 2020 original ↗

30 Oct 2020

The Social Dilemma and the naming/knowing dichotomy original ↗

19 Oct 2020

Random links in cleaning up my blog original ↗

5 Oct 2020

What unknown technological invention will have a huge impact on the future? A compilation of Reddit answers.original ↗

8 Sept 2020

The most profound technologies are those that disappear original ↗

20 Jul 2020

Is reasoning inherently adversarial? Some random thoughts, unequally distributed original ↗

16 Jul 2020

iPhones may never be produced in the United States because of supply chain issues original ↗

11 Jul 2020

Capitalism and Breezewood original ↗

9 Jul 2020

Making sense of content moderation, some foundations original ↗

19 Jun 2020

Zuboff’s definition of surveillance capitalism in "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" commits a category error, a crucial misstep in understanding platform technologies original ↗

16 Jun 2020

Two years on, it is clear that the network neutrality fight was meta-miserable original ↗

11 Jun 2020

Links June 2020 original ↗

3 Jun 2020

A brief history of competition in telephony 1880-1900 original ↗

10 Feb 2020

2019

Links December 2019 original ↗

5 Dec 2019

A Call To Arms, or Antitrust Needs More Empirical Bayesian Research [Abstract]original ↗

1 Nov 2019

The limits of Mazzucato's thesis in the The Entrepreneurial State original ↗

16 Oct 2019

Valuing data is a tough task, a reply to Jaron Lanier’s op-ed in the NYT original ↗

23 Sept 2019

Links September 2019 original ↗

5 Sept 2019

Some initial thoughts on Collison and Cowen's progress studies concept original ↗

30 Aug 2019

Advertising isn't as effective as you might think; a review of the scholarly literature original ↗

19 Aug 2019

How does the use of GPS affect people?original ↗

9 Aug 2019

The end of the monopoly era in newspapers original ↗

2 Aug 2019

Privacy cost estimation original ↗

30 Jul 2019

There are good reasons to be skeptical that automation will unravel the labor market original ↗

8 Jul 2019

Reviving the Office of Technology Assessment would require a set of specific conditions in Congress. We have simply not arrived at that time.original ↗

15 Jun 2019

Rural broadband isn't like rural electrification, it is actually much harder original ↗

8 Apr 2019

An Esoteric Reading of LM Sacasas original ↗

26 Feb 2019

The kids are going to be alright original ↗

17 Jan 2019

2018

If you’re worried about net neutrality, put your reputation on the line and make a prediction about the future original ↗

17 Dec 2018

Three short responses to the pacing problem of tech policy original ↗

27 Nov 2018

Is there a kill zone in tech?original ↗

7 Nov 2018

Book Review: Cathy O’Neil’s "Weapons of Math Destruction"original ↗

7 Nov 2018

A new survey of rural Americans should make us underweight rural broadband original ↗

17 Oct 2018

A defense of optimism original ↗

10 Oct 2018

Should the US adopt the GDPR?original ↗

1 Oct 2018

How should privacy be defined? A roadmap original ↗

6 Aug 2018

The definition of technology matters for tech policy and growth original ↗

2 Aug 2018

Why did the Facebook stock drop last week? Some economics of decision-making original ↗

31 Jul 2018

It's not all bad; Facebook, Google, Reddit, and Twitter also support positive communities original ↗

11 Jul 2018

Did the Supreme Court get the market definition correct in the Amex case?original ↗

6 Jul 2018

Mandating AI fairness may come at the expense of other types of fairness original ↗

21 Jun 2018

2015

How much is music worth?original ↗

22 Apr 2015

Breaking into the regulation market original ↗

9 Apr 2015

Demand led growth in social media original ↗

6 Apr 2015

Why It’s Important That The Internet Created Technopopulism original ↗

6 Apr 2015

When shall innovation come? A rejoinder to Jacobin’s Red Innovation issue original ↗

3 Apr 2015

The political principal-agent problem original ↗

1 Apr 2015