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08 Feb 2026
Contestability
economics
competition
08 Feb 2026
Works in Progress Issues 19-21 Discussion
economics
urban-planning
geopolitics
epistemology
institutional-design
08 Feb 2026
Bell Labs' greatest output came during monopoly, not competition
economics
innovation
monopoly
history
technology
08 Feb 2026
Institutional mechanisms for shared resources work only when the game can be made positive-sum
political-economy
institutional-design
coordination-failure
economics
08 Feb 2026
The tension between designed and grown order recurs across markets, cities, and geopolitics
urban-planning
economics
epistemology
institutional-design
08 Feb 2026
Goodhart and Campbell converged independently because postwar technocratic governance created the conditions for their insight
epistemology
measurement
economics
public-policy
history
08 Feb 2026
The Hayekian knowledge problem is epistemic, not computational — AI doesn't resolve it
economics
epistemology
technology
political-economy
08 Feb 2026
Network goods structurally resist competitive provision
economics
competition
monopoly
infrastructure
institutional-design
08 Feb 2026
The Olley-Pakes decomposition is a better diagnostic than concentration ratios but still has fundamental blind spots
economics
competition
measurement
industrial-organisation
08 Feb 2026
The gap between potential and actual Pareto improvement is where most real politics happens
economics
political-economy
pareto-efficiency
public-policy
08 Feb 2026
Web 2.0 platforms don't just reveal demand — they substantially create and shape it
economics
epistemology
technology
political-economy
08 Feb 2026
Splitting a national monopoly into regional ones produces the worst of both worlds
economics
competition
monopoly
infrastructure
uk
public-policy
08 Feb 2026
Static and dynamic efficiency measure different things and can trade off against each other
economics
competition
innovation
measurement
08 Feb 2026
Post-2008 UK productivity stagnation reflects failed reallocation, not failed competition per se
economics
uk
public-policy
competition
08 Feb 2026
Victorian railway competition produced massive waste, not efficiency
economics
competition
infrastructure
history
uk
08 Feb 2026
How to Spot a Monopoly
economics
competition
monopoly
industrial-organisation
measurement