Reading Log: Three Capitals, One Chip
Trump took Silicon Valley to Beijing, the US reopened the chip tap, and Europe watched. A reading log on US-China-EU tech geopolitics, the Draghi report one year on, and where the money is actually going.
Political Economy
The Digital Euro and Bank Disintermediation: The Oldest Tension in Money
From the stone money of Yap to ECB holding limits: why the design of a digital euro is a political choice about who keeps the ledger, not a technical one.
The Cost of a Moving Deadline: Regulatory Whiplash as a Governance Problem
Two EU omnibus packages rewrote the AI and sustainability rulebooks in the space of months. The hidden cost isn’t the rules themselves, it’s what constant rule-changing does to the organisations trying to comply.
Transparency in Transition: Lobbying Regulation after Brexit
A working note on my current paper: when the UK left the EU it didn’t just leave a market, it left an oversight regime. What happens to lobbying transparency when the supranational referee walks off the pitch and the only rulebook left is a famously weak one?
AI between techno-enthusiasm and techno-skepticism: the new utopian electricity, or a potential apocalyptic threat?
AI as the new electricity, or as a new nuclear power? A case against the false dichotomy between techno-utopia and techno-dystopia.