Brian Kelleher Richter
@briankrichter
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Boundary Spanning Economist. Engaged with academia, industry, and public service. #PoliticalEconomy #BusinessAndPolitics #Lobbying #Antitrust. My post/opinions.
Austin, TX
Joined January 2019
🚨 Our latest paper just came out in Science, where we report a simple, historical pattern: From 1980 to 2020, Republican lawmakers consistently funded science at a higher level than their Democratic counterparts. four years in the making. Led by @zfurnas thread 1/n
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🚨 Our latest paper is out today in Science! We uncover stark and systematic partisan differences in the amount, content, and character of science used in policy, which mirror differences in political elites’ trust in science. Four years in the making. Led by @zfurnas 1/n
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Insights on what has happened to academic publishing as contributions to knowledge have started to matter less instrumentally than citations https://t.co/QT8E5RP6DG
blogs.lse.ac.uk
As evidence mounts on the use and misuse of citations data has authorship become a questionable concept in modern scholarship?
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US legislators gerrymander corporate headquarters into their own districts finds @aaronrkaufman of @nyuabudhabi and co-authors
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Hotel algorithmic pricing lawsuits:
popular.info
If you traveled this summer, the rate you paid at hotels may have been artificially inflated.
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US legislators gerrymander corporate headquarters into their own districts finds @aaronrkaufman of @nyuabudhabi and co-authors
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Also worth learning about SF law that addresses algorithmic pricing as collusion, albiet only for rental properties when the potential for algorithmic pricing using non-public data spans industries and we are already are seeing examples of ot elsewhere:
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A good read for anyone trying to make sense of what kind of algorithmic pricing may or may not be legal both today and in the future:
theatlantic.com
Algorithmic collusion appears to be spreading to more and more industries. And existing laws may not be equipped to stop it.
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This is the first successful Sherman Act, Section II case brought by the government since Microsoft case was decided in 2001 https://t.co/5LTTpuTb0M
theverge.com
The DOJ and Google faced off in a 10-week trial.
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Worth a read to understand what a Harris administration might do or not do on antitrust
What does Kamala Harris think about monopolies and private equity?
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Democratic Silicon Valley billionaire Reid Hoffman gives $7m to Harris, immediately demands she fire FTC Chair Lina Khan.
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Amazon's strategy to set prices low for its Alexa-enabled smart devices, expecting them to generate income elsewhere in the tech giant, hasn't paid off https://t.co/Ao1sXOVa44
wsj.com
The company’s strategy to set prices low for Echo speakers and other smart devices, expecting them to generate income elsewhere in the tech giant, hasn’t paid off.
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Do partisan mapmakers gerrymander firms much like they gerrymander seats? In a recent, @apsrjournal, Joaquin Artes, @aaronrkaufman, @briankrichter, and Jeffrey F. Timmons find that they do!
politicalsciencenow.com
In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Samantha Chapa,...
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Think what you will about JD Vance, but his nomination signals continued #antitrust enforcement regardless of who wins in November. This video of him is worth watching to understand his views on #tech and #crypto:
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NEW: Ticketmaster is spending record sums on lobbying amid antitrust scrutiny. Since merging with Live Nation in 2010, Ticketmaster has faced accusations of predatory practices leading to high ticket prices, sparking a DOJ lawsuit. 👇 https://t.co/aNXPWco5PQ
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Now available online at Annual Review of Political Science: "Formal Theories of Special Interest Influence" with @keithschnak ( https://t.co/oBblXoS3UD) As always, read it, cite it, love it.
annualreviews.org
The impact of money on politics—whether through campaign finance, lobbying, or independent expenditure—raises key normative questions about democratic representation and accountability. In recent...
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This is a valuable paper because it (1) uses redistricting algorithms to explore new substantive issues; and (2) establishes a surprising redistricting motive — placing firms in particular districts.
FirstView day for my newest paper @apsrjournal! 🥳 We show that when partisan redistricters draw the lines, they don't just take preferred voters: they also capture corporate headquarters. Take a look here: https://t.co/GLHeZDar2R
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End the single-member district that makes gerrymandering possible and very profitable (for politicians). (the business case, against extortion) https://t.co/snlP8fAIA1
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Business firms are over-allocated to districts held by the mapmakers’ party when partisans control the redistricting process, suggesting that gerrymandering is directed at companies as well as voters https://t.co/lb24C9Aepx
cambridge.org
Are Firms Gerrymandered? - Volume 119 Issue 2
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