Will Rinehart Will Rinehart posts publications research Substack media requests & clips 2022 2022-09-07 A reading list to understand bureaucracy 2022-09-06 Defining knowledge, tacit knowledge, local knowledge, and others 2022-08-01 Is Internet access like electricity? (Is Internet access a general purpose technology?) 2022-07-25 A compilation of my recent broadband work and broadband maps! 2022-06-22 Where Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) goes awry 2022-06-21 Notes on space capitalism 2022-05-23 Some resources for conducting public policy analysis, using James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as an example 2022-05-05 Teens and the impact of social media, a deep dive into recent work from Haidt 2022-04-28 Where broadband likely exists in the United States; an estimation of the broadband gap using logit models 2022-04-27 Musk wants to make Twitter open source. What does that mean? 2022-04-08 A list of interesting or important space and defense projects 2022-03-31 Jonathan Haidt and Robby Soave debate the impact of social media, some initial thoughts 2022-03-11 The costs of CEQA 2022-03-04 February 2022 Links 2022-03-03 MrBeast confirms the importance of Buchanan's "Order Defined in the Process of its Emergence" 2022-03-01 Is cost stopping people from getting online? 2021 2021-12-08 Notes on automation 2021-12-06 Random research in politics, economics, firms, etc. 2021-12-06 Nov 2021 Links 2021-11-02 Excessive veto power is holding back progress in the United States 2021-10-29 Today’s one-dollar delay is worth $39 billion in the future, some comments on Cowen’s Stubborn Attachments 2021-09-30 The butler did it. 2021-06-22 Philosophy of tech, an outline of theories 2021-06-16 Research paper dump June 2021 2021-06-11 From my recent CSPAN appearance: We need technological atonement 2021-06-08 Notes on McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy 2021-06-07 Links May 2021 2021-06-01 Social media research, a constantly updating bibliography 2021-05-28 When an online community migrates 2021-05-28 [Tech sequence] My fundamental theorems of cognition, technology, and the social 2021-05-19 The Millennial wealth gap 2021-05-12 Notes on economic short-termism 2021-05-06 The rural broadband penalty 2021-05-03 Links April 2021 2021-03-05 Links February 2021 2021-02-22 What I think I am nearly certain about 2021-02-10 Estimates of broadband deployment costs 2021-02-10 COVID-19 and the relocalization of politics 2021-01-25 Big tech, regulation, and the Spence distortion 2021-01-20 I still find it deeply ironic that Noam Chomsky signed the Harper's Magazine letter 2021-01-18 Some unstructured thoughts on Trump, Twitter, Parler and the last two weeks in tech 2020 2020-10-30 Links October 2020 2020-10-19 The Social Dilemma and the naming/knowing dichotomy 2020-10-05 Random links in cleaning up my blog 2020-09-08 What unknown technological invention will have a huge impact on the future? A compilation of Reddit answers. 2020-07-20 The most profound technologies are those that disappear 2020-07-16 Is reasoning inherently adversarial? Some random thoughts, unequally distributed 2020-07-11 iPhones may never be produced in the United States because of supply chain issues 2020-07-09 Capitalism and Breezewood 2020-06-19 Making sense of content moderation, some foundations 2020-06-16 Zuboff’s definition of surveillance capitalism in "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" commits a category error, a crucial misstep in understanding platform technologies 2020-06-11 Two years on, it is clear that the network neutrality fight was meta-miserable 2020-06-03 Links June 2020 2020-02-10 A brief history of competition in telephony 1880-1900 2019 2019-12-05 Links December 2019 2019-11-01 A Call To Arms, or Antitrust Needs More Empirical Bayesian Research [Abstract] 2019-10-16 The limits of Mazzucato's thesis in the The Entrepreneurial State 2019-09-23 Valuing data is a tough task, a reply to Jaron Lanier’s op-ed in the NYT 2019-09-05 Links September 2019 2019-08-30 Some initial thoughts on Collison and Cowen's progress studies concept 2019-08-19 Advertising isn't as effective as you might think; a review of the scholarly literature 2019-08-09 How does the use of GPS affect people? 2019-08-02 The end of the monopoly era in newspapers 2019-07-30 Privacy cost estimation 2019-07-08 There are good reasons to be skeptical that automation will unravel the labor market 2019-06-15 Reviving the Office of Technology Assessment would require a set of specific conditions in Congress. We have simply not arrived at that time. 2019-04-08 Rural broadband isn't like rural electrification, it is actually much harder 2019-02-26 An Esoteric Reading of LM Sacasas 2019-01-17 The kids are going to be alright 2018 2018-12-17 If you’re worried about net neutrality, put your reputation on the line and make a prediction about the future 2018-11-27 Three short responses to the pacing problem of tech policy 2018-11-07 Is there a kill zone in tech? 2018-11-07 Book Review: Cathy O’Neil’s "Weapons of Math Destruction" 2018-10-17 A new survey of rural Americans should make us underweight rural broadband 2018-10-10 A defense of optimism 2018-10-01 Should the US adopt the GDPR? 2018-08-06 How should privacy be defined? A roadmap 2018-08-02 The definition of technology matters for tech policy and growth 2018-07-31 Why did the Facebook stock drop last week? Some economics of decision-making 2018-07-11 It's not all bad; Facebook, Google, Reddit, and Twitter also support positive communities 2018-07-06 Did the Supreme Court get the market definition correct in the Amex case? 2018-06-21 Mandating AI fairness may come at the expense of other types of fairness 2015 2015-04-22 How much is music worth? 2015-04-09 Breaking into the regulation market 2015-04-06 Demand led growth in social media 2015-04-06 Why It’s Important That The Internet Created Technopopulism 2015-04-03 When shall innovation come? A rejoinder to Jacobin’s Red Innovation issue 2015-04-01 The political principal-agent problem 2015-02-26 Law As a Performance of Ideological Assumptions 2015-02-17 The role of competition in network neutrality 2015-01-29 Jefferson’s Contractual Society 2015-01-23 Changing tastes in the Top 40 and some economics of music 2015-01-09 Micropayments, the news, & friction free browsing 2015-01-04 Some Stats on the NYPD Work Stoppage 2014 2014-12-31 The basics of euvoluntary exchange 2014-12-19 The Dominant Life Form in the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent AI 2014-12-15 The Genesis of the Career Entrepreneur 2014-12-12 Pure Alchian bliss 2014-12-04 Information wants to be expensive as well as free 2014-12-02 When Policy Becomes a Battleground for Lifestyles Page 1 of 2 Copyright © 2022 William Rinehart posts publications research Substack media requests & clips