Will Rinehart

2023

2023-09-01
Should robots be taxed?
2023-02-21
May you live in interesting times, or just another AI hype cycle
2023-02-16
Neoliberalism in the university: why the Marxists don’t take the analysis far enough

2022

2022-08-01
Is Internet access like electricity? (Is Internet access a general purpose technology?)
2022-06-22
Where Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) goes awry
2022-04-28
Where broadband likely exists in the United States; an estimation of the broadband gap using logit models

2021

2021-10-29
Today’s one-dollar delay is worth $39 billion in the future, some comments on Cowen’s Stubborn Attachments
2021-06-22
Philosophy of tech, an outline of theories
2021-05-19
The Millennial wealth gap
2021-05-12
Notes on economic short-termism
2021-05-03
Links April 2021
2021-02-22
What I think I am nearly certain about
2021-01-25
Big tech, regulation, and the Spence distortion

2020

2020-10-30
Links October 2020

2019

2019-09-23
Valuing data is a tough task, a reply to Jaron Lanier’s op-ed in the NYT
2019-07-30
Privacy cost estimation
2019-07-08
There are good reasons to be skeptical that automation will unravel the labor market

2018

2018-11-27
Three short responses to the pacing problem of tech policy
2018-07-31
Why did the Facebook stock drop last week? Some economics of decision-making

2015

2015-04-09
Breaking into the regulation market
2015-01-09
Micropayments, the news, & friction free browsing

2014

2014-12-31
The basics of euvoluntary exchange
2014-12-12
Pure Alchian bliss

2012

2012-08-30
Notes on Mark Thoma’s History of Economic Thought Lecture 1 and 2
2012-03-10
Notes and quotes from Joel Mokyr's "Lever of Riches"

2011

2011-03-26
Information, episteme and techne part 1

2010

2010-04-09
Tony Judt is wrong