Technology
March 12, 2021
Say it Ain’t So, Joe: Please Don’t Mess with the U.S. and China’s Shared Prosperity
By Victor Menaldo and Nicolas Wittstock On February 24th, Joe Biden signed an executive order to review U.S. supply chains. The review seeks to establish if the U.S. relies too heavily on foreign suppliers in four key industries: computer chips, large-capacity batteries, pharmaceuticals, and rare earth minerals used in electronics. The problems it seeks to address are growing…
February 11, 2021
Breaking Up Big Tech: A Solution in Search of a Problem
Check out Victor Menaldo’s article about Big Tech and regulation on VentureBeat via the link below!
February 7, 2021
Long and Menaldo on digital platforms & algorithmic amplification
In this piece, UW Political Economy co-founders James Long and Victor Menaldo think about this issue from first principles (in this case, market externalities) and consider potential solutions in light of tradeoffs and the quest to maximize social welfare, not score political points. https://venturebeat.com/2021/02/06/from-the-election-lie-to-gamestop-how-to-stop-social-media-algorithms-from-hurting-us/ While in the piece they voice skepticism about whether…
January 28, 2021
Long and Menaldo: The Seattle Times – Section 230: Friend, Not Foe, of Free Speech
This past Sunday, 1/24/2021, Political Economy Forum co-founders James Long and Victor Menaldo were featured in The Seattle Times for an opinion piece regarding Section 230 and free speech. Check it out via the link below! https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/section-230-friend-not-foe-of-free-speech/
January 18, 2021
Forum Podcast – “Free Speech on Social Media” – with Roddy Lindsay and Victor Menaldo
Guest: Roddy Lindsay, CEO of Hustle and opinion columnist at The Information, Professor Victor Menaldo, from the Political Science Department at the University of Washington. In this episode, Professor Victor Menaldo and Forum Fellow Nicolas Wittstock host Roddy Lindsay to debate the impact of Twitter’s move to ban President Trump on free speech. They…
September 23, 2020
#4 Political Economy Forum Podcast – The End of Capitalism?
https://soundcloud.com/political-economy-forum-at-university-of-washington/pe-forum-podcast-episode-5-the-end-of-capitalism In this episode, Professor Victor Menaldo and Nicolas Wittstock discuss what Capitalism is and isn’t, as well as its peculiar historical trajectory and the pathbreaking economic expansion experienced during the last 250 years. They also broach concerns over lackluster economic performance in industrialized economies today and deep skepticism about Capitalism’s ability to continue to…
August 29, 2020
Center Left Capitalism as the Key to Prosperity, By Victor Menaldo
Capitalism, in its modern form, is only about 250 years old and was ushered in during the industrial revolution. The advent of general-purpose technologies (GPT) transformed the scale of production and put productivity on an exponential growth path for the first time in human history. This ended the Malthusian Trap whereby increased economic productivity engendered…
August 6, 2020
A Tale of TikTok and Tariffs – US Technology Policy towards China – By Victor Menaldo and Nicolas Wittstock
As China has become a more assertive international actor, US calls for active industrial policy to counter growing Chinese technological capabilities have grown. Allegedly, China’s technology companies are undermining US companies and hurt the US economy. Often “forced technology transfer” is invoked to justify the recent escalation in anti-Chinese technology policy. Yet, we argue…
July 9, 2020
Economic Growth and Increased Productivity is Only Half the Battle, By Taylor D.H. Rockhill
My career as an economist started nearly a decade ago, under the watchful eye of the inimitable Deirdre McCloskey. I still fondly remember reading her beautifully written, formidable Bourgeois trilogy and wondering: will I ever come close to attaining her seemingly bottomless well of knowledge? I highly recommend her Bourgeois books, Cult of Statistical Significance,…
July 8, 2020
The Economic, Political & Cultural Follies of Kicking Foreign Students Out, By Brian Ping Leung & Nick Wittstock
After the White House’s recent move to suspend the new issuance of several classes of visas, ICE published a Broadcast Message communicating that foreign students under F and M visas may not remain in the US if they exclusively take online classes in the Fall: “Students attending schools operating entirely online may not take…
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