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2024
“Will crypto regulation stifle crypto innovation?” Duckbucks: The Future of Finance, November 2024, pp.29-33.
“The Right Way to Regulate AI,” Project Syndicate, 31 May 2024.
“Copyright Policy Options for Generative AI,” VoxEU, 3 April 2024.
“AI will be a subtle disrupter,” Korean Herald, 16 March 2024.
2023
“What is Apple’s Vision Pro really for?” (with Abhishek Nagaraj) HBR Online, 14 June 2023.
“How Large Language Models Reflect Human Judgment,” (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), HBR Online, 12 June 2023.
“A New Mining Tax on Crypto” a16z, May 16, 2023.
“Blast Off: The Space Economy Takes Flight,” (with Ajay Agrawal, Avi Goldfarb, Chris Hadfield, Mara Lederman), Rotman Magazine, Winter 2023.
2022
“A broader approach to AI would cut bias in immigration decisions while adding speed,” (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), Policy Options, 22 December 2022
“ChatGPT, AI can boost the economy by removing language barriers for immigrants seeking employment,” (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), The Globe and Mail, 15 December 2022.
“ChatGPT and how AI disrupts industries,” (with Ajay Agrawal, Avi Goldfarb and ChatGPT), HBR Online, 12 December 2022.
“Newfoundland provides a clue about AI’s near future in business,” (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), The Toronto Star, 26 November 2022.
“The Interoperability Hope,” CPI TechREG Chronicle, November 2022.
“From Prediction to Transformation,” (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), Harvard Business Review, Nov-Dec 2022.
“Power & Prediction: The Anti-discrimination Opportunity,” (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), Rotman Magazine, Fall 2022.
“We need an affordable insurance plan to maintain internet and phone connectivity,” The Toronto Star, 15 July 2022.
“Is Meta in decline?” The Toronto Star, 26 February 2022.
“A vaccine tax can help end the pandemic,” (with Michael Smart) The Toronto Star, 14 February 2022.
“The case for a vaccine tax,” (with Michael Smart), Finances of the Nation, 31 January 2022.
2021
“Preparing for COVID-29,” Rotman Magazine, Fall 2021.
“Preparing our schools for a fall reopening — and inevitable disruptions,” The Toronto Star, 26 July 2021.
“Should homes be sold at open auction,” The Toronto Star, 29 May 2021.
“Ontario workers need immediate protection,” The Hamilton Spectator, 23 April 2021.
“Start thinking of Covid-19 as a virus with no end,” Policy Options, 11 March 2021.
“Facebook vs Australia: The government hands Facebook a free pass,” The Conversation, 19 February 2021.
2020
“Paul Milgrom: Price discoverer and Nobel laureate,” VoxEU, 15 November 2020.
“After the crisis, economics needs to slow down,” LSE Blogs, 11 November 2020.
“A hidden success in the Covid-19 mess: the internet,” Stat News, 11 November 2020.
“With the vaccine imminent, we need a plan,” The Toronto Star, 11 November 2020.
“An economist says a lack of information about COVID-19 drove the world into a deep economic crisis — here's how we can fix it,” Business Insider, 10 November 2020.
“The pandemic needs an information solution,” LSE Blogs, 31 October 2020.
“The second wave is here. Have you installed the Covid Alert app,” The Conversation, 24 September 2020.
“Rapid tests: They do more. They cost less. It’s that simple,” The Star, 21 September 2020.
“The key to living with the virus? Less accurate tests,” (with Richard Holden), Australian Financial Review, 18 September 2020.
“What’s the best strategy to reduce Covid-19 outbreaks in schools? Let’s do the math,” The Conversation, 13 September 2020.
“The modelling behind Melbourne’s extended city-wide lockdown is problematic,” The Conversation, 8 September 2020.
“Rallying Innovation in the Age of COVID-19,” Rotman Magazine, Fall 2020, p.50.
“A Leader’s Guide to Safely Reopening the Workplace,” (with Ajay Agrawal, Avi Goldfarb and Mara Lederman) Rotman Magazine, Fall 2020, p.24.
“Reproduction numbers tend to 1 and the reason could be behavioural,” VoxEU, 31 August 2020.
“How to Win with Machine Learning,” (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), Harvard Business Review, September-October, 2020.
“The microeconomics of cryptocurrencies,” (with Hanna Halaburda, Guillaume Haeringer and Neil Gandal), VoxEU, 29 July 2020.
“The CEO’s Guide to Safely Reopening the Workplace,” (with Ajay Agrawal, Avi Goldfarb and Mara Lederman) MIT Technology Review, 28 May 2020.
“How I wrote and published a book about the economics of the coronavirus in a month,” The Conversation, 1 May 2020.
“Provide incentives for using the tracing app,” (with Richard Holden), Australian Financial Review, 21 April 2020.
“To battle coronavirus, Canada must mobilise resources with a war-like approach,” The Globe and Mail, 25 March 2020.
“On coronavirus, it’s time to adopt a wartime mentality,” The Star, 17 March 2020.
“Flattening the coronavirus curve is not enough,” The MIT Press Reader, 16 March 2020.
“A zero price can be special,” VoxEU, 9 February 2020.
“An Economist’s Guide to Potty Training,” The MIT Press Reader, 6 February 2020.
“More (or Less) Economic Limits of the Blockchain” (with Neil Gandal), VoxEU, 6 February 2020.
2019
“The Dawn of Global Cryptocurrency,” Rotman Magazine, December 2019, p.101.
“Technology won’t make everyone a billionaire but it shouldn’t making them poorer, either,” (with Andrew Leigh) Startup Daily, 3 December 2019.
“Humanity’s paths: A “Star Trek” utopia or a “Terminator” dsytopia?” (with Andrew Leigh), Salon, 1 December 2019.
“More Star Trek than Terminator,” (with Andrew Leigh), Inside Story, 25 November 2019.
“Why Facebook’s Libra is a better option for consumers than Facebook Pay,” Globe and Mail, 18 November 2019.
“Canada should take an insurance approach to future disruption,” (with Andrew Leigh), Policy Options, 15 November 2019.
“Equity can be the mother of invention,” (with Andrew Leigh) Sydney Morning Herald, 12 November 2019.
“Running out of excuses for high inequality” (with Andrew Leigh) The Hill, 27 October 2019.
“How companies can prepare for the disruptive power of AI” (with Federico Berruti and Tiff Macklem) The Globe and Mail, 21 October 2019.
“Does Innovation Cause Inequality?” (with Andrew Leigh), Rotman Magazine, Fall, pp.7-11.
“Adding ‘real’ value” (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), Indian Management, April 2019.
“What was missing from Zuckerberg’s call for regulation” HBR Online, 4 April 2019.
“Market Power and Inequality” (with Andrew Leigh, Martin Schmalz and Adam Triggs), Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, 23 January 2019.
2018
"Economic Policy for Artificial Intelligence," (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), VoxEU, 8 August 2018.
"AI and the Paperclip Paradox," VoxEU, 10 June 2018.
"Google’s AI Assistant Is a Reminder that Privacy and Security Are Not the Same," (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldbarb) HBR Online, 30 May 2018.
"Just because you "work with people" doesn't mean your job won't change with AI," Quartz, 25 May 2018.
"Artificial Intelligence for Beginners," IEDP Viewpoint, 24 May 2018.
"AI will change stock market trading but it can't wipe out the human touch," Market Watch, 15 May 2018.
"Companies are suddenly declaring themselves 'AI First': Why it's a problem for their current customers," (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), LinkedIn Pulse, 30 April 2018.
"Navigating the AI maze is a challenge for governments" The Conversation, 29 April 2018.
"Artificial Intelligence is here. Is it time to rethink your business strategy?" (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), UofT Magazine, 26 April 2018.
"Toward a national policy on AI," (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), Policy Options, 25 April 2018.
"The (Surprisingly) Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence," (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), Rotman Magazine, Spring 2018.
"A Simple Tool to Start Making Decisions with AI," (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), HBR Online, 17 April 2018.
"Make sure AI is right for your business before taking the plunge," (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), The Globe and Mail, April 14, 2018.
"AI in the Boardroom," (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), The Corporate Board, March/April 2018.
"A Better Way to Bring Science to Market," Sloan Management Review, February 2018.
"Is your company's data actually valuable in the AI era?" (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), HBR Online, 17 January 2018.
"Business Threats can Arise at any Time. Are you ready?" University of Toronto Magazine, Winter 2018.
2017
"Storm crowds," (with Sandra Barbosu) VoxEU, 30 November 2017.
"Netflix and Why the Future of Streaming Looks Like Old-School TV," HBR Online, 19 October, 2017.
"The Trump effect: It's Canada's moment to win the global war for talent," (with Richard Florida), Globe and Mail, 9th October 2017.
"How AI Could Change Amazon: A Thought Experiment," (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), HBR Online, 3rd October 2017.
"Trump is Making Canada Great Again," (with Richard Florida), Politico, 1st October 2017.
"Rise of AI will raise importance of good judgment," (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), The Irish Times, 1 September 2017.
"50 Years Ago an Economist Worried About Unchecked Corporate Power. Here’s What His Theory Got Wrong," HBR Online, 22 August 2017.
"Worth reading: Bitcoin, Blackberry, time travel and other outcomes," The Conversation, 17 August 2017.
"How AI will change the way we make decisions," (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), HBR Online, July 26, 2017.
"Is Social Graph portability workable?", TAP Blog, 20 July 2017.
"Could open source code make our Y2K fears finally come true?" HBR Online, July 14, 2017.
"Energy fuels Star Trek Economy," The Conversation, June 26, 2017.
"Multiple Paths to Value: Test Two, Choose One," (with Scott Stern), IESE Insight, Second Quarter 2017.
"The Trade-off Every AI Company Must Face," (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), HBR Online, 28 March 2017.
"Managing the Machines: The Challenge Ahead," (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), Rotman Magazine, Spring 2017.
"What to expect from Artificial Intelligence," (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), Sloan Management Review, Feb 7, 2017 (previous version: Managing the Machines (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), 2016.
2016
"The Obama Administration's Roadmap for AI Policy," (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), HBR Online, 21 December 2016.
"Warding off the Threat of Disruption," Sloan Management Review, 2 December 2016.
"The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence," (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Golfdfarb), HBR Blogs, 17 November 2016.
"Newspapers are social media," Wall Street Journal, 26 October 2016.
"Neither Uber nor Lyft Believe Sharing is the Future," TAP Blog, 19 October 2016.
"The Disruption Dilemma," Rotman Magazine, Fall 2016.
"Why Elon Musk's New Strategy Makes Sense," HBR Blogs, 25 July 2016.
"Why Facebook Messenger is a big deal for customer service," HBR Blogs, 6 May 2016.
"If Ford wants to beat Tesla, it needs to go all in," HBR Blogs, 20 April 2016.
"Scientific Teamwork," (with Fiona Murray), NBER Research Reporter, April 2016.
"Facebook Live is the Company's Newest Strategic Weapon," HBR Blogs, 8 April 2016.
"What would it take to disrupt a platform like Facebook," HBR Blogs, 23 March, 2016.
"The other disruption," Harvard Business Review, March 2016, pp.78-85.
"How much Trump is really disrupting Politics-As-Usual," Harvard Business Review Blog, 1 March 2016.
"Game Theory and Apple's Encryption Challenge," TAP Blog, 25 February 2016.
"Keep Calm and Manage Disruption," Sloan Management Review, 22 February, 2016.
2015
"Free Content and Net Neutrality," TAP Blog, 29 December 2015.
"Mergers and Disruptive Innovation," Global Media and Communications Quarterly, Autumn, 2015.
"How sure are we that ad blocking software will ruin the free Internet?" TAP Blog, 21 August 2015.
"Autocorrect off: Where BlackBerry's Founders went Wrong," Literary Review of Canada, July-August 2015.
"Google, Yelp and the Future of Search," HBR.org, 10 July 2015.
"An Empirical Approach to Reverse Payment Settlements," (with Lisa Cameron), Law360, 7 July 2015.
"Sharing User Search Data," TAP Blog, 3 July 2015.
"As phones become our IDs how will we secure the future," Spark, 3 June 2015.
"Is climate policy compatible with Tesla's battery-fueled dreams?" The Conversation, 1 May 2015.
"Are we kidding ourselves on competition?" TAP Blog, 1 May 2015.
"Innovation's Rewards and Trade-offs," Rotman Management Magazine, 22 April 2015.
"The last two digits of a price can signal your desperation to sell," The Conversation, 21 April 2015.
"It's not the end of regulation," Cato Unbound, 8 April 2015.
"Amazon Dash finally brings sense to the Internet of Things," The Conversation, 31 March 2015.
"What Meerkat vs Periscope battle means for live mobile streaming," The Conversation, 26 March 2015.
"The 10K Apple Watch is more than a product; it's an HR strategy," The Conversation, 17 March 2015.
"Why Apple and its iPhone confound disruption theorists," The Conversation, 6 March 2015.
"Can competition fix net neutrality?" The Conversation, 3 March 2015.
"Net neutrality should apply to mobile networks," The Conversation, 26 February 2015.
"The Apple Car will be really different ... if it exists," The Conversation, 20 February 2015.
"A search for the unreal America," The Conversation, 5 February 2015.
"Why BlackBerry's argument for app neutrality is crazy," The Conversation, 22 January 2015.
"To provide eyes or not to provide eyes," The Conversation, 19 January 2015.
"When the camera lies: our surveillance society needs a dose of integrity to be reliable," (with Steve Mann), The Conversation, 12 January 2015.
"Something is wrong with Apple's international app pricing," The Conversation, 12 January 2015.
"The morality of price spikes," The Conversation, 1 January 2015.
2014
"Online education divides knowledge into chunks," The Conversation, 15 December 2014.
"Actually, we need more Harvard Professors who would call out overcharges at a restaurant," Slate, 11 December 2014.
"Is Uber really in a fight to the death?" The Conversation, 25 November 2014.
"Against Oligopoly" Medium, 9 November 2014.
"Tirole and Pasteur," TAP Blog, 15 October 2014.
"Do Patents Stifle Cumulative Innovation?" TAP Blog, 30 July 2014.
"10 Reasons to Doubt Tim's Vermeer," Medium, 15 June 2014.
"Net neutrality: A simple goal with some difficult implementation ahead," VoxEU, 11 June 2014.
"How to compete with a Non existent iWatch," Medium, 8 June 2014.
"Teaching entrepreneurship is really just teaching strategy," National Post, 29 May 2014.
"Net Neutrality may be harder to achieve than we thought," TAP Blog, 29 May 2014.
"Take a leaf out of the airlines' book to sell taxes to the rich," The Conversation, 7 May 2014.
"The Anatomy of Imitation," TAP Blog, 14 April 2014.
"No business built on teenager demand is sustainable," Medium, 24 March 2014.
"Coase, Net Neutrality and Netflix," TAP Blog, 7 March 2014.
"The Lego Movie is the Ultimate Parenting Story," Medium, 9 February 2014.
"The Giant's Shoulders: Suzanne Scotchmer," TAP Blog, 31 January 2014.
2013
"Some Bitcoin thoughts," Medium, 24 December 2013.
"The Double Bacon Extra Cheese Problem," Slate, 11 December 2013.
"Some simple economics of drone delivery," TAP Blog, 3 December 2013.
"How Enders Game the movie enhances Enders Game the book," Medium, 3 November 2013.
"Harvard Business Review should pay a price for its fees," Financial Times, 16 October 2013.
"What Malcolm Gladwell misses in his revised David vs Goliath Account," Medium, 2 October 2013.
“Is Apple harming the feature innovation ecosystem?” TAP Blog, 26 June 2013.
"Will Yahoo! return to its portal roots?" Medium, 14 May 2013.
“Abbott’s leave scheme is a step backwards for women,” ABC The Drum, 9 May 2013.
“Broadband shouldn’t be one size fits all,” ABC The Drum, 12 April 2013.
“Why Information Providers need to be more open to sharing in their business models,” World Financial Review, March 2013.
"Gesture control and the QWERTY effect," Medium, 25 February 2013.
"I'm a Mac, You're a PC. There really is a difference," Medium, 15 February 2013.
2012
“To Stay Ahead of Disruption’s Curve, Follow Lead Users,” (with Eric von Hippel), HBR Blogs, 17 December 2012.
“The Daily didn’t work but it’s not the end for news on tablets,” The Conversation, 4th December 2012.
“What are publishers afraid of with device restrictions?” TAP Blog, 27th November 2012.
“Air New Zealand uses Prices to go Baby Friendly,” Forbes.com, 19th November 2012.
“Seven Economist Mistakes about Parenting,” Forbes.com, 12th November 2012.
“Learning should fit the child,” Forbes.com, 22nd October 2012.
“How should a National Leader Call out Opponents on Values,” Forbes.com, 9th October 2012.
“Information Wants to be Shared,” HBR Blogs, 8th October 2012.
“First There was Apple’s MapGate, now Welcome ParentGate,” Forbes.com, 3rd October 2012.
“Online Education Experiments at the Margin,” Forbes.com, 1st October 2012.
“US Presidential Elections: the View from Australia,” The Conversation, 11th September 2012.
“Grab the kids, an iPhone and get outside for some spelling,” Forbes.com, 3rd September 2012.
“Uber and the Delicate Business of Creating a Platform,” HBR Blogs, 24th August 2012.
“Who can sit next to children on flights?” Forbes.com, 14th August 2012.
“Can Economics Help you Find a Spouse?” Forbes.com, 9th August 2012.
“Camps, Sickness and Smell,” Forbes.com, 22nd July 2012.
“Is it a good idea to communicate with your child at camp?” Forbes.com, 11th July 2012.
“Should Parents Tax Their Children for Eating Too Much Candy?” Forbes.com, 10th July 2012.
“Apple will enter the sharing business,” HBR Blogs, 3rd July 2012.
“Can Children Learn About Computer Science Through Online University Courses?” Forbes.com, 27th June 2012.
“Nudging Workplaces to Allow People to ‘Have it All’,” Forbes.com, 23rd June 2012.
“Is the cost of media independence really so high?” The Conversation, 21st June 2012.
“Can the Wisdom of Crowds Transform your Diet?” Forbes.com, 21st June 2012.
“Can Apps Transform Learning into Games?” Forbes.com, 13th June 2012.
“If World Leaders can Misplace Children, What about the Rest of Us?” Forbes.com, 11th June 2012.
“Is There Evidence that Free Ranging on Facebook is Bad for Tweens?” Forbes.com, 8th June 2012.
“Opening Up Facebook is Essential Because Kids Need Training Wheels,” Forbes.com, 4th June 2012.
“How to Hot Wire the Dollhouse,” Forbes.com, 21st May 2012.
“Can Facebook get a Child Expelled from School?” Forbes.com, 17th May 2012.
“The Wiggles are Dead. Long live the Wiggles,” Forbes.com, 17th May 2012.
“Bullies Amount to Nothing: What Mitt Romney’s Teenagehood will do to a Parental Narrative?” Forbes.com, 11th May 2012.
“The Next Digital Revolution in Education? Grading,” HBR Blogs, 9th May 2012.
“What my 11 year old’s Stanford course taught me about online education,” Forbes.com, 7th May 2012.
“Is it time for subscription parenting?” Forbes.com, 27th April 2012.
“Disrupt your startup,” HBR Blogs, 26th April 2012.
“Is the preschool rat race a sign of doom?” Forbes.com, 22nd April 2012.
“It’s time to give children the vote,” Forbes.com, 20th April 2012.
“Mirror, Mirror. Finally, a Fairy Tale for Both Boys and Girls,” Forbes.com, 15th April 2012.
“Can you outsource child care on a plane?” Forbes.com, 14th April 2012.
“What the humble sippy cup always needed: GPS,” Forbes.com, 1st April 2012.
“My Little Pony will Blast you into Oblivion,” Forbes.com, 30 March 2012.
“Harry Potter and the Mysterious eBookstore,” Forbes.com, 27 March 2012.
“Disney Nailed Attention to Detail Long Before Apple,” HBR Blogs, 26th March 2012.
“Why the Hunger Games is a great movie for kids,” Forbes.com, 26th March 2012.
“Why Disney would like you to subscribe to vacations,” Forbes.com, 25th March 2012.
“Look Who’s Paying the Nanny a $180,000 salary,” Forbes.com, 22nd March 2012.
“O’ Air Canada, do you really want to separate families?” Forbes.com, 21st March 2012.
“Google Grows Up: A Necessary Evil?” HBR Blogs, 19th March 2012.
“The Rise of the Creative Parent,” Forbes.com, 9th March 2012.
“Naming iPads and Naming Babies,” Forbes.com, 7th March 2012.
“TED becomes a publishing platform,” HBR Blogs, 5th March 2012.
“What if Mobile App Developers could pay for data?” TAP Blog, 1st March 2012.
“Why Parents Don’t Want to Schedule Leap Day Babies,” Forbes.com, 29th February 2012.
“Zuckerberg may need to fail,” HBR Blogs, 6th February 2012.
“Learning on speed,” HBR Blogs, 23rd January 2012.
“Hard Times are Harder for Women,” New York Times, 11th January 2012.
2011
“EC Launches eBook Collusion Investigation,” TAP Blog, 6th December 2011.
“What Facebook knows that Google+ Doesn’t,” HBR Blogs, 1st December 2011.
“Where is DropBox’s Power?,” HBR Blogs, 2nd November 2011.
“The Rise of Content Platforms,” HBR Blogs, 13th October 2011.
“Network Neutrality and Bank of America’s Charges,” TAP Blog, 8th October 2011.
“Patent Reform without Congress,” HBR Blogs, 3rd October 2011.
“Qantas and the Airline Quality Gap,” HBR Blogs, 19th September 2011.
“Google Buys Zagat, Thinks Outside the Algorithm,” HBR Blogs, 8th September 2011.
“Netflix and the Perils of Disruptive Platforms,” HBR Blogs, 7th September 2011.
“Time to Buy Apple,” HBR Blogs, 25th August 2011.
“How Twitter, Google and Apple walk a fine line in platform defence?” HBR Blogs, 22nd July 2011.
“Google+ Comes up Short,” HBR Blogs, 7th July 2011.
“A Tax Rebate for Diversity,” New York Times, 5th July 2011.
“Apple’s News Platform Battle,” HBR Blogs, 29th June 2011.
“The Flipside of Cisco’s Flip Decision,” HBR Blogs, 23th June 2011.
“In Digital Media, the Commercial Value of the Pile,” HBR Blogs, 13th June 2011.
“Apple’s ‘Buy your way out of piracy’ offer,” TAP Blog, 9th June 2011.
“Is Canada’s innovation performance really so bad?” HBR Blogs, 3rd June 2011.
“Quelle surprise: academics gaming the system sank the ERA journal rankings,” The Conversation, 31st May 2011.
“Agreeing on Groupon,” HBR Blogs, 20th May 2011.
“How not to rip off your customers,” HBR Blogs, 13th May 2011.
“Pay what you want experiments, from Stephen King to Kickstarter,” HBR Blogs, 3rd May 2011.
“Finding Yahoo’s way,” HBR Blogs, 27th April 2011.
“Failure isn’t enough,” HBR Blogs, 14th April 2011.
“It turns out that everyone is right about broadband,” ABC The Drum Unleashed, 12th April 2011.
“Reducing our carbon footprint requires kicking our carbon diet,” The Conversation, 8th April 2011.
“The Kindle does not want to be free,” HBR Blogs, 7th April 2011.
“Believing the evidence on climate change policy,” ABC The Drum, 6th April 2011.
“The Missing Market for Failure,” HBR Blogs, 28th March 2011.
“In the digital world, ‘sunset’ media can’t cling to old ways” The Conversation, 24th March 2011.
“Is Paul Krugman ‘Click Worthy’?” HBR Blogs, 18th March 2011.
“Facebook is the Largest News Organization Ever,” HBR Blogs, 11th March 2011.
“Best Buy’s Buy-Back,” HBR Blogs, 3rd March 2011.
“Antitrust and Apple’s iPad Magazine Subscription Pricing,” TAP Blog, 2nd March 2011.
“The Present and the Future of Digital Publishing,” HBR Blogs, 24th February 2011.
“How Apple Broke the PR Rules — And Got Away with It,” HBR Blogs, 16th February 2011.
“The Consequences of Hiybbprqag’ing,” TAP Blog, 8th February 2011.
“A Quirky Way of Innovating,” HBR Blogs, 7th February 2011.
“A very News Corp Daily,” ABC The Drum Unleashed, 3rd February 2011.
“It’s not just the birds who might get angry,” HBR Blogs, 28th January 2011.
“Is ‘Do Not Track’ What Ad Platforms Want?” TAP Blog, 25th January 2011.
“Tiger Mother Management,” HBR Blogs, 21st January 2011.
“Charging the stupidity tax,” HBR Blogs, 11th January 2011.
“Get ready for more annoying ads,” HBR Blogs, 3rd January, 2011.
2010
“Who will hold the Master Switch?”The Drum, 20th December 2010.
“The Steve Jobs Theory of Customer Relations,” HBR Blogs, 12th December 2010.
“Breaking up the Retail-Price Confusopoly,” HBR Blogs, 30th November, 2010.
“Google Changes the Playing Field on News,” HBR Blogs, 23rd November 2010.
“The Folly of Replicating the Physical World,” HBR Blogs, 17th November 2010.
“How banning Happy Meals could make kids fatter,” HBR Blogs, 8th November 2010.
“On the road to political extremism,”The Drum, 1st November, 2010.
“Continual learning in financial regulation,”The Drum, 25th October, 2010.
“When your customers leave you behind,” HBR Blogs, 13th October, 2010.
“Crowdsourcing effective advertising,” HBR Blogs, 8th October, 2010.
“Microsoft’s New Antitrust Strategy,” HBR Blogs, 28th September, 2010.
“Broadband and the missing Cost-Benefit Analysis,”The Drum, 16th September, 2010.
“Blocking the expats: It’s not my ABC,”The Drum, 25th August 2010.
“The Broadband Premise: Both sides have it wrong,”The Age, 12th August 2010.
“Let’s get in on this people smuggling business,”Crikey, 7th July 2010.
“Dear Ken Henry … a plea from the academic sidelines,”The Drum, 23rd June 2010.
“The Drum Wrap: The Budget 2010,”The Drum, 12th May 2010.
“Apple’s media core,”The Age, 13th April, 2010.
“iPad, therefore I am,”The Drum, 5th April 2010.
2009
“WSJ weighs on with ‘Aussie Mac’ in the making,” Crikey, 16 October 2009.
“True blue view from the red centre,” The Walkley Magazine, Issue 58, 14th October, 2009, p.50.
“Cutting Telstra’s Cord,” The Age, 17th September 2009.
“Don’t buy my book on Fathers Day,” The Punch, 4th September 2009.
“The unslanted state of Australian media,” Crikey, 3rd September 2009.
“ISPs should pay no mind to the cap,” The Age, 25th August 2009.
“How and why the ETS will cost you,” The Punch, 24th August, 2009.
“Clarifier: CPRS Schemes,” Crikey, 11th August 2009.
“Harry Potter’s Uneasy Relationship with Academia,” The Punch, 29th July 2009.
“NEWspaper Business Model,” The Voice, 13th July, 2009.
“Mad furore surrounding the so-called ‘People’s bank’,” The Punch, 13th July 2009.
“Are ideas a repugnant good?” MUSSE, 8th July 2009.
“Why the People’s Bank makes good sense,” Crikey, 8th July 2009.
“The crisis and the textbooks,” Online Opinion, 8th July 2009.
“Rules underpin prosperity,” (with Nicholas Gruen, Christoper Joye, Stephen King, John Quiggin and Sam Wylie), The Age, 8th July 2009.
“Taskforce needs to loosen grip on hidden public data,” The Age, 6th July 2009.
“Read between the lines: book protection has failed,” The Age, 9th June, 2009.
“Going boldly backwards,” The Age, 14th May, 2009.
“Emotive opposition arguments make no sense,” The Age, 19th February, 2009.
“What Taylornomics taught me,” Crikey, 6th February, 2009.
“Can giving people money work?” Crikey, 5th February, 2009.
“Forget ideology, common sense should prevail,” The Age, 5th Feburary, 2009.
“Rudd changes gear, but is the car moving?,” The Age, 4th February, 2009.
“Something Smells in Australian Banking,” Crikey, 3rd February, 2009.
2008
“Hanging up on Telstra,” Courier Mail, 17th December, 2008.
“Will ABC Online charge taxpayers to download Question Time?” Crikey, 4th December, 2008.
“Plan B is 21st Century Communications,” Australian Financial Review, 24th November, 2008.
“Behind every great fibre-optic network is a great package of applications,” The Age, 14th November, 2008.
“Government has missed the message on telcos,” The Age, 13th November, 2008.
“Symmetry, no caps and roving usage will be real gains,” The Age, 12th November, 2008.
“From a taxpayer’s perspective, high-speed broadband is a high-odds gamble,” The Age, 11th November, 2008.
“Think carefully before leaping headlong on to the big, fast broadband wagon,” The Age, 10th November, 2008.
“Put a premium on time to study the bank guarantee instead,“ The Age, 24th October, 2008.
“A Guarantee Against Panic,” The Age, 14th October, 2008.
“Parental Leave: PC Proposals Fall Short,” The Age, 6th October, 2008.
“Keep non-bank lenders afloat,” (with Christopher Joye), The Australian, 2nd October, 2008.
“Garnaut out thinks the government on trade exposure,” Crikey, 1st October 2008.
“Meltdown hurts climate for change,” The Age, 1st October, 2008.
“Swan’s timely intervention just what the market ordered,” (with Christopher Joye), Crikey, 30th September 2008.
“Is Swan poised to intervene in the banking sector?” Crikey, 26th September 2008.
“Wall St bail out means capitalism never really existed,” Crikey, 19th September, 2008.
“Deal or no deal?” The Sun Herald, 14th September, 2008.
“An Ideas Nation needs some encouragement,” The Age, 11th September, 2008.
“Parenting by numbers,” The Canberra Times, 7th September, 2008.
“Incentives for Toddlers,” New Matilda, 14th August 2008.
“Caught short: information controls kill opportunities,” The Age, 5th August, 2008.
“‘AussieMac’ for emergencies makes sense,” (with Christopher Joye), Australian Financial Review, 19th July, 2008, p.62.
“Getting to the Point on Health Insurance,” InSight, July 2008.
“Why Australia needs a government sponsored enterprise,” Crikey, 15th July, 2008.
“How economists became the life and soul of the party,” The Canberra Times, 5th July 2008.
“Garnaut’s innovation plan has Australia paying its share of world R&D,” The Age, 5th July 2008.
“It’s time for AussieMac” (with Christopher Joye), InFinance, June 2008, pp.41-42.
“Budget move the beginning of a health care cure,” The Age, 28th May, 2008.
“Tax credits may ease workforce re-entry,” The Age, 21st May, 2008.
“Family Policy Still In Gestation,” Australian Financial Review, 19th May, 2008.
“Back to Boredom,” ABC Online Opinion, 14th May, 2008.
“Advance Australia Where?” Innovation 08, 5th May, 2008, pp.17-18.
“Who pays for summit schemes?” The Age, 22nd April, 2008.
“Views from the 2020 Summit,” Crikey, 21st April, 2008.
“Where is the petrol price data?” Crikey, 18th April, 2008.
“Facilitating the blooming of liquidity,” (with Christopher Joye) The Age, 10th April, 2008.
“Home loans need an Aussie Mac,” (with Christopher Joye) Australian Financial Review, 27th March, 2008, p.79.
“Time for a baby bonus rebirthing,” Crikey, 14th March, 2008.
“Blame babies, not migrants, for our economic and environmental woes,” The Age, 5th March, 2008.
“Tax Cuts – What the experts say,” The Age, 13th February, 2008, B2.
“Finally, Telstra comes to broadband party,” Australian Financial Review, 12th February, 2008.
“Facebook’s a real beauty. Next page – real profits,” Qantas Australian Way, February, 2008.
“New tools needed to make super choices,” The Age, 24th January, 2008.
“Switching banks a trying effort,” Herald Sun, 10th January, 2008.
2007
“What’s the best way to spend $60 billion?” The Age, 21st November, 2007, p.1.
“A big price tag for campaign — but not much silver lining,” Crikey, 13th November, 2007.
“$834: how baby bonus adds up to baby boom,” Crikey, 9th November, 2007.
“Australia’s biggest birthday,” ABC Unleashed, 9th November, 2007.
“Reserve Bank gives Labor Pass Mark,” ABC Unleashed, 7th November, 2007.
“Parity blues,” Business Spectator, 31st October, 2007.
“Blurred picture of the landscape,” The Age, 24th October, 2007.
“Who pockets the child care rebate?” Crikey, 23rd October, 2007.
“What to spend $34 billion on?” The Age, 18th October, 2007.
“Technical breakthroughs,” Business Review Weekly, 6th September, 2007, p.27.
“Susan Athey Awarded John Bates Clark Medal,” Stanford Business, August 2007.
“No level playing field for TV rights,” The Age, 30th July, 2007.
“Rhythm of the night fills music coffers,” The Age, 16th July, 2007.
“Rhyme and reason in economists’ half-glass view,” The Age, 13th July, 2007.
“The broadband fantasy,” Business Review Weekly, 12th July, 2007, p.27.
“Rudd’s next platform: affordable housing,” Crikey, 4th July, 2007.
“The missing bytes in broadband,” Australian Financial Review, 2nd July, 2007.
“Next generation recorder,” Business Review Weekly, 28th June, 2007, p.32.
“Broadband plans speed towards the toughest obstacle,” The Age, 21st June, 2007.
“Brakes on net speed,” The Courier Mail, 20th June, 2007, p.30.
“Broadband is much broader than a fibre cable,” Crikey, 19th June, 2007.
“Happy, happy talk: What to think about the economy?” Crikey, 8th June 2007.
“Time to book some ad space between the covers?” Crikey, 7th June, 2007.
“Are broadband speeds really affecting business users?” Crikey, 16th May, 2007.
“The Future Fund: Set-up to be raided?” Crikey, 14th May, 2007.
“Cursors, foiled again,” Business Review Weekly, 10th May, 2007.
“Budget claws back on education; doesn’t move forward,” Crikey, 10th May, 2007.
“Fun and games,” Courier Mail, 23rd March, 2007, p.29.
“Is this newfangled broadband a true economic boon?” Crikey, 22nd March, 2007.
“Needed: smarter policy on speed,” Australian Financial Review, 19th March, 2007, p.63.
“The game is never over,” Business Review Weekly, 15th March, 2007, p.27.
“Don’t let broadband become an election issue,” Crikey, 14th March, 2007.
“Rent subsidies a good idea — if you’re looking to help landlords,” Crikey, 22nd February, 2007.
“The state’s watered down drought response,” Crikey, 6th February, 2007.
“Opportunity lost,” Business Review Weekly, 1st February, 2007, p.49.
“Trading on the holiday market,” Crikey, 1st February, 2007.
“iPod Index .. why not an iTunes Index,” Crikey, 19th January, 2007.
“Local solutions to national issues,” Exchange, Vol.19, No.1, 19th January, 2007, p.12
2006
“Go local for next generation,” Australian Financial Review, 12th December, 2006, p.55.
“How do we get Australian broadband up to speed?” Crikey, 6th December, 2006.
“Look at what happens when the obstetrician’s away …” Crikey, 5th December, 2006.
“Is there a political wage cycle?” Crikey, 30th October, 2006.
“No one listens to the fridge,” Business Review Weekly, 26th October, 2006, p.28.
“Nine’s attempt to break the ice,” Crikey, 16th October, 2006.
“Your child’s future,” Courier Mail, 18th September, 2006
“Encourage that Spark!” Business Review Weekly, 14th September, 2006, p.54.
“The inconvenient truth about Gore’s movie,” Crikey, 11th September, 2006.
“Telstra’s travails will continue,” Australian Financial Review, 28th August, 2006, p.63.
“No longer self evident: is all internet content created equal?” New Matilda, 25th August, 2006.
“Telstra the Entrant sings a different tune,” Crikey, 23rd August 2006.
“The government’s broadband obligation,” Crikey, 9th August, 2006.
“Should the ACCC take away Telstra’s Advantages,” Crikey, 8th August, 2006.
“T3 must ring in rule changes,” (with Jerry Hausman), Australian Financial Review, 8th August, 2006, p.55.
“How petrol companies are making hay,” Crikey, 5th July, 2006.
“For some people being dead on time can save taxes,” (with Andrew Leigh) The Age, 27th June, 2006.
“Birthing pain makes health system suffer,” (with Andrew Leigh) The Australian, 20th June, 2006. (Also Online Opinion).
“Galbraith a maverick,” The Age, 2nd May, 2006.
“Government loans no remedy for biotech blues,” The Age, 25th April, 2006.
“Government must put right health insurance pains,” The Age, 28th March, 2006.
“Fee change gets too much credit,” The Age, 17th March, 2006.
“Toll was slow to put its cards on the ACCC’s table,” The Age, 14th March, 2006.
“Road-use charge would force more to public transport,” The Age, 7th March, 2006.
“Getting Cross with the Media and Cross-Media Ownership,” New Matilda, 1st March, 2006.
2005
“Companies open path to customer innovation,” The Age, 18th November, 2005.
“Sting a song for sixpence? Not likely,” The Age, 4th November, 2005.
“Dirty Harry proves the point,” The Age, 24th October, 2005.
“Selling Telstra will free it to negotiate with ACCC,” The Age, 3rd October, 2005, p.6.
“Leave trading: the pitfalls for workers,” (with Martin Byford), The Age, 26th September, 2005.
“Consumers put at the end of the queue,” The Age, 19th September, 2005.
“Three Words: Structure, Structure, Structure,” New Matilda, 31st August, 2005.
2004
“What price in trading for ideas,” The Age, 11th December, 2004, p.19.
“How much will you pay for an idea?” The Age, 4th December, 2004, p.23.
“Togetherness makes good cents,” The Age, 27th November, 2004, p.23.
“Tendering … springboard for business,” The Age, 20th November, 2004, p.21.
“When reputations go on the line,” The Age, 13th November, 2004, p.23.
“Dividing up outsourced production,” The Age, 6th November, 2004, p.21.
“Bidding for a better bottom line,” The Age, 30th October, 2004, p.19.
“The trouble with outsourcing” The Age, 23rd October, 2004, p.21.
“Can everyone play the same tune?” The Age, 16th October, 2004, p.21.
“Can the web catch everything?” The Age, 2nd October, 2004, p.20.
“Can you bring competition inside the firm?” The Age, 25th September, 2004.
“Schools: Make a ‘club good’ better,” Australian Financial Review, 20th September, 2004.
“Bidding for the budget,” The Age, 18th September, 2004, p.20.
“Bundled bidding,” The Age, 11th September, 2004.
“Integration sometimes stacks up,” Australian Financial Review, 6th September, 2004.
“Cost-plus, haggle-minus,” The Age, 4th September, 2004, p.18.
“Who are you insuring anyway?” The Age, 28th August, 2004, p.21.
“Does the winner really take it all?” The Age, 21st August, 2004, p.17.
“Talking in billions,” Campus Review, 19th May, 2004, p.5
“A measure of all things innovative,” Australian Financial Review, 17th May, 2004.
“System blocks better health care,” (with Stephen King) Australian Financial Review, 22nd March 2004.
2003
“Auction tips takes a hammering,” Herald Sun, 25th August 2003.
“Petrol deals a blow to the average consumer,” (with Stephen King), Australian Financial Review, 20th August 2003.
“Innovation Nation?” Interview for The Buzz, Radio National, 18th August 2003.
“Minds Need Money Too,” Interview for Business Review Weekly, 14th August 2003.
“Internet auctions fairer for all,” Herald Sun, 14th August 2003, p.18.
“Housing lifelines would rescue many,” (with Stephen King) Australian Financial Review, 6th August, 2003.
“The Case for Credit Card Reform: A Primer for Students,” Ecodate, July 2003.
“Is it Time to take an Access Holiday?” (with Stephen King) The Pipeliner, 2003.
Older
“Stephen King’s Game of Horror,” The Manager, August 2000.
“The Failure of Language in Anti-trust Debate,” The Manager, April 2000.
“Will Sony Recognise the Game it is Playing?” The Manager, March 1999.
“Libraries and Banks and Cyberspace Challenge,” Issues, Vol.30, September, 1998, p.2.
“When being first doesn’t pay,” Australian Financial Review, Friday 30th January, 1998, p.32.
“Tracks of your tears – choosing CDs,” Australian Financial Review, Wednesday, 31st December, 1997, p.9.
“By and buy, Yule regret it,” Australian Financial Review, Friday, 28th November, 1997, p.33.
“A paparazzi-free environment,” (with Stephen King) Australian Financial Review, Monday 8th September, 1997, p.16.
“Illegal drugs: the supply side,” Australian Financial Review, Wednesday 27th August, 1997, p.20.
“Privatisation debate futile,” Australian Financial Review, Monday 14th July,1997, p.17.
“It’s all about producing ideas, not objects,” Letter to the Editor, Australian Financial Review, Thursday 19th June, 1997, p.20.
“The inventive alternative,” Australian Financial Review, Thursday12th June, 1997, p.19.
“In full or not at all,” Letter to the Editor, The Australian, Monday 9th June, 1997, p.10.
“Playing off the States delivers a grand prix,” Australian Financial Review, 7th March, 1996, p.17.
“Surprising and Nobel rejections,” Australian Financial Review, 25th October, 1995, p.19.