Opinion Pieces

2024

• “Generative AI is Still Just a Prediction Machine,” (with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb), Harvard Business Review Online, 18 November 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.