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The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Seuss
The ordinal society and the oversharing economy
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Henry Farrell
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Cybernetics is the science of the polycrisis
What Stafford Beer and Dan Davies say and why you need to read them
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Henry Farrell
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Today's hackers wear green eyeshades, not mirrorshades
Accountancy as a lens on the hidden systems of the world
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Henry Farrell
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The making of Icehenge
Kim Stanley Robinson on how it came to be
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Henry Farrell
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Kicking against the Ticks
Why Elon Musk’s strategy for monetizing status didn't work.
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Henry Farrell
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The Apocalyptic Systems Thriller as a non-fiction genre
Political economy should steal the best tricks of science fiction and techno-thrillers.
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Henry Farrell
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March 2024

Power: A Primer for Perplexed Economists
Let's Assume an Unfettered Marketplace of Ideas! Or Actually, Let's Not.
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Henry Farrell
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Rabbit-holes, zombies and platform pathologies
Engagement maximizing algorithms are less consequential than you might think.
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Henry Farrell
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February 2024

Dr. Pangloss's Panopticon
Economists have a blind spot about progress and technology
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Henry Farrell
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The Map is Eating the Territory: The Political Economy of AI
It's all driven by who gets what
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Henry Farrell
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Why this is not a paid newsletter
I’m in the throes of writing a post on the political economy of AI - it’s not going to be ready this week, and it will be a bit of a beast. I’m guessing…
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Henry Farrell
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Elon Musk and the power of the bro-code
How doing bad things together creates bonds of trust
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Henry Farrell
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