Writing
The Economist
- With Sam Altman’s return, a shift in AI from idealism to pragmatism, Nov 23 2023
- What Sam Altman’s surprise sacking means for the AI race, Nov 18, 2023
- What will artificial intelligence mean for your pay, Nov 16 2023
- To supercharge science, first experiment with how it is funded, Nov 16 2023
- New ways to pay for research could boost scientific progress, Nov 15 2023
- Why American manufacturing is becoming less efficient, Nov 9 2023
- Free Exchange: Do Amazon and Google lock out competition?
- Claudia Goldin wins the Nobel Prize in economics, Oct 9 2023
- Could OpenAI be the next tech giant?, Sep 18 2023
- AI will change American elections, but not in the obvious way, Aug 31 2023*
- Your employer is (probably) unprepared for artificial intelligence, Jul 16 2023
- American trustbusters are losing their focus, Jul 13 2023
- Is big business really getting too big?, Jul 12 2023
- What are the chances of an AI apocalypse?, July 10 2023
- Regulators put the future of America’s crypto industry in doubt, Jun 8 2023
- Turkey’s bizarre economic experiment enters a new phase, Jun 1 2023
- What would humans do in a world of super-AI?, May 23 2023
- The fight over the future of global payments, May 18 2023
- A seven-chapter 10k-word special report on digital finance, May 15 2023
- Just how good can China get at generative AI?, May 9 2023
- How generative models could go wrong, Apr 19 2023*
- The world’s interest bill is $13trn–and rising, Feb 19, 2023
- Battle of the boffins: The race of the AI labs heats up, Jan 30 2023
- Free exchange: Have economists misunderstood inflation?, Jan 26 2023
- Buttonwood: Venture capital’s $300bn question, Jan 18 2023
- Has economics run out of big new ideas?, Jan 12 2023
- How technology is redrawing the boundaries of the firm, Jan 8 2023; interviewed on CNBC’s The Exchange
- The new tech worldview, Dec 20 2022
- The Economist Explains: What is long-termism?, Nov 22 2022
- What Sam Bankman-Fried’s downfall means for effective altruism, Nov 17 2022
- Free Exchange: How best to bring back manufacturing, Nov 3 2022
- Free Exchange: How to escape scientific stagnation, Oct 26 2022
- Mothering Invention: China and the West are in a race to foster innovation, Oct 13 2022;* interviewed on CBC Radio’s ‘Eye on the World’ Part 1, Part 2
- Free Exchange: Richer societies mean fewer babies. Right?, Sep 15 2022
- What to read to understanding central banking, Sep 7 2022
- What to read to understand “effective altruism”, Aug 24 2022
- Can tech reshape the Pentagon?, Aug 8 2022
- Buttonwood: Why markets really are less certain than they used to be, Jul 14 2022
- Can Watershed corner the market for carbon accounting?, Jul 21 2022
- Punting profits: Will prediction markets live up to the hype?, Feb 19 2022
- Can Silicon Valley still dominate global innovation?, Apr 16 2022
- The bill balloons: The global interest bill is about to jump, Feb 5 2022
- What are stablecoins, such as Tether?, Dec 16 2021
- Adventure capitalism: Startup finance goes global, Nov 27 2021*
- Something ventured something gained: The bright new age of venture capital, Nov 27 2021*
- The used-car conundrum: A handful of items are driving inflation in America, Nov 6 2021
- The real-time revolution: Enter third-wave economics, Oct 23 2021*
- NFTs are not just for digital art-and their popularity is growing, Oct 22 2021
- Rental resurgence: Another upward force on American inflation, Oct 16 2021
- What’s wrong with America’s consumer price index?, Oct 13 2021
- Green party: A wave of green government bonds is flooding markets, Oct 9 2021
- Polarisation paradox: Is political polarisation in America really rising?, Oct 5 2021
- Labour’s share in national income is both over- and under-explained, Sep 18 2021
*cover package
Podcasts
- The business of sport, Jul 2023
- Reserve core: on digital finance and dollar dominance, May 2023
- Babbage: How worrying is generative AI?, Apr 2023
- The changing ideology of Silicon Valley, Dec 2022
- Cryptocalypse
- The new economics of fertility, Sep 2022
- Can tech reshape the pentagon?
- Veni, vidi, vc: the new age of venture capital, Nov 2021
- Inflated expectations, Nov 2021
Invited panel discussions
- Oxford synthetic media conference, January 2023
- London School of Economics alternative investments conference, January 2023
- European Union regions & cities conference, October 2022
Other writing
- Why transformative artificial intelligence is really, really hard to achieve, with Zhengdong Wang in The Gradient, Jun 26 2023, “Recommended reading”–Marc Andreessen, “Outstanding, economically very literate, counterpoint, on the limits of AI. Must read.”–Luis Garicano
The Stanford Daily
- Senior column: Accepting randomness, Jun 12, 2021
- Concerned about skipping the line? Students grapple with the ethical dilemas of early vaccination, Apr 11, 2021
- Tracking COVID-19 at Stanford, Oct 11, 2020
- I will miss everything: Student survey shows changed plans for many in the new academic year, Sep 28 2020
- The class of 2020 by the numbers, Jun 14 2020
- The 2020 ASSU elections: A primer for contested races, May 19 2020
- A closer look at Stanford students’ COVID-19 petitions, May 6 2020
- Experts discuss AI’s potential to combat COVID-19, noting caveats, Apr 2 2020
- Stanford as a VC, Mar 5 2020