If you haven’t yet had the chance to check out the new Progress Forum, I encourage you to do so. It’s a discussion group for progress studies and all things related to it. The Forum is spons...
https://techliberation.com/2022/05/01/the-future-of-progress-studies/
An important new book launched this week in Europe on issues related to innovation policy and industrial policy. “Questioning the Entrepreneurial State: Status-quo, Pitfalls, and the Need for C...
https://techliberation.com/2022/04/26/book-review-questioning-the-entrepreneurial-state/
Almost every argument against technological innovation and progress that we hear today was identified and debunked by Samuel C. Florman a half century ago. Few others since him have mounted a mor...
This is a compendium of readings on “progress studies,” or essays and books which generally make the case for technological innovation, dynamism, economic growth, and abundance. I will update...
https://techliberation.com/2022/01/25/the-case-for-innovation-progress-abundance-some-readings/
Discourse magazine has just published my review of Where Is My Flying Car?, by J. Storrs Hall, which I argue is the most important book on technology policy written in the past quarter century. H...
This month’s Cato Unbound symposium features a conversation about the continuing relevance of Albert Hirschman’s Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and S...
https://techliberation.com/2020/08/27/symposium-hirschmans-exit-voice-loyalty-at-50/
My thanks to Dr. Wayne Brough, President at Innovation Defense Foundation, for reviewing my new book, Evasive Entrepreneurs and the Future of Governance, over at the AIER website. Brough says of ...
https://techliberation.com/2020/08/04/wayne-brough-reviews-evasive-entrepreneurs/
I was speaking at a conference recently and discussing my life’s work, which for 30 years has been focused on the importance of innovation and intellectual battles over what we mean progress. ...
Marc Andreessen is interviewed by Sriram Krishan in his new newsletter, The Observer Effect, and asked what motivates him to support technological innovation and “to go read up on a new topic e...
https://techliberation.com/2020/06/14/andreessen-on-why-innovation-matters/
There are few things more exciting to innovation policy geeks that than the week a new Matt Ridley book drops. Thankfully, that time is upon us once again. This week, Ridley’s latest book, How ...
https://techliberation.com/2020/05/17/matt-ridley-on-the-freedom-to-experiment-and-try-new-things/
My latest book, Evasive Entrepreneurs and the Future of Governance How Innovation Improves Economies and Governments, is now live. Here’s the launch essay and online launch event. Also, here’...
https://techliberation.com/2020/04/28/evasive-entrepreneurs-13-key-terms-from-the-book/
I’m pleased to announce that the Cato Institute has just published my latest book, Evasive Entrepreneurs and the Future of Governance How Innovation Improves Economies and Governments. Here’s...
https://techliberation.com/2020/04/28/evasive-entrepreneurs-10-highlights-from-the-book/
To commemorate its 40th anniversary, the Mercatus Center asked its scholars to share the books that have been most influential or formative in the development of their analytical approach and wor...
https://techliberation.com/2020/04/16/5-books-that-shaped-my-thinking-on-innovation/
To read Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction (2016) is to experience another in a line of progressive pugilists of the technological age. Where Tim Wu took on the future of the Internet...
https://techliberation.com/2018/11/07/book-review-cathy-oneils-weapons-of-math-destruction/
Reason magazine recently published my review of Franklin Foer’s new book, World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech. My review begins as follows: If you want to sell a book abou...
Today is the anniversary of the day the machines took over. Exactly twenty years ago today, on May 11, 1997, the great chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov became the first chess world champion to l...
https://techliberation.com/2017/05/11/book-review-garry-kasparovs-deep-thinking/
“The quickest way to find out who your enemies are is to try doing something new.” Thus begins Innovation and Its Enemies, an ambitious new book by Calestous Juma that will go down as one of ...
https://techliberation.com/2016/07/29/book-review-calestous-jumas-innovation-and-its-enemies/
On May 3rd, I’m excited to be participating in a discussion with Yale University bioethicist Wendell Wallach at the Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center in Washington, DC. (RSVP here.) Wallach ...
Throughout the year, I collect some of the more notable tech policy-related essays that I’ve read and then publish an end-of-year list here. (Here, for example, are my end-of-year lists from 2...
https://techliberation.com/2015/12/23/10-notable-tech-policy-essays-from-2015/
I recently finished Learning by Doing: The Real Connection between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth, by James Bessen of the Boston University Law School. It’s a good book to check out if you ar...
I was delivering a lecture to a group of academics and students out in San Jose recently and someone in the crowd asked me to send them a list of some of the many books I had mentioned during m...
https://techliberation.com/2015/09/18/5-great-books-on-innovation-technology-policy/
Over the course of the year, I collect some of my favorite (and least favorite) tech policy essays and put them together in an end-of-year blog post so I will remember notable essays in the futur...
https://techliberation.com/2014/12/15/nominees-for-the-best-worst-tech-policy-essays-of-2014/
I am pleased to announce the release of my latest book, “Permissionless Innovation: The Continuing Case for Comprehensive Technological Freedom.” It’s a short manifesto (just under 100 page...
I didn’t have nearly as much time this year to review the steadily growing stream of information policy books that were released. The end-of-year lists I put together in the past were fairly co...
https://techliberation.com/2013/12/23/important-cyberlaw-info-tech-policy-books-2013-edition/
Here are a few Internet policy essays I collected over the past year which I thought were particularly well done and worth highlighting once more. They are listed in chronological order: L. Gordo...
As I’ve noted before, I didn’t start my professional life in the early 1990s as a tech policy wonk. My real passion 20 years ago was free trade policy. Unfortunately for me, as my boss rudely...
https://techliberation.com/2013/08/24/book-review-anupam-chanders-electronic-silk-road/
Ronald J. Deibert is the director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and the author of an important new book, Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cybe...
I was honored to be asked by the editors at Reason magazine to be a part of their “Revolutionary Reading” roundup of “The 9 Most Transformative Books of the Last 45 Years.” Reason is ce...
Ian Brown and Christopher T. Marsden’s new book, Regulating Code: Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age, will go down as one of the most important Internet policy books o...
https://techliberation.com/2013/06/27/book-review-brown-marsdens-regulating-code/
Richard Brandt, technology journalist and author, discusses his new book, One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.Com. Brandt discusses Bezos’ entrepreneurial drive, his business philosoph...