The DECODE Symposium reading list

"Our Data, Our Future: Radical Tech for a Democratic Digital Society." *Okay, not like I would agree with all this, but you could do a lot worse in the way of some geopolitical pondering circa late 02019.

It's just sitting there in the pdf, in it's Belarusian-Italian Barcelona-Turinese fashion

Reading List: Decode Symposium 2019: Turin
Reading list curated by Francesca Bria and Evgeny Morozov

DIGITAL MONEY
* "Perpetual Debt in the Silicon Savannah" by Kevin P. Donovan, Emma Park (Boston
Review)
source:
https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality-global-justice/kevin-p-donovan-emma-park-p
erpetual-debt-silicon-savannah
* "Bitcoin Dreams" by Kevin Werbach (Los Angeles Review of Books)
source: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/bitcoin-dreams/
* "Central Banks and Regulation of Cryptocurrencies" by Hossein Nabilou and André
Prüm (Review of Banking and Financial Law)
source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3421417
* "The Impact of US Monetary Policy on Chinese Enterprises’ R&D Investment" by
Dongyang Zhang, Yumei Guo, Zhaorui Wang, Yanbin Chen (Finance Research Letters)
source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1544612319307445
* "The Ethics of Delegating Monetary Policy" by Jens van 't Klooster (The Journal of
Politics)
source: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/706765
* "The Economics of Cryptocurrencies—Bitcoin and Beyond" by Jonathan Chiu, Thorsten
V. Koeppl (Bank of Canada)
source: https://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/swp2019-40.pdf
* "Central Bank Digital Currency: One, Two or None?" by Pfister Christian (Banque de
France)
source:
https://publications.banque-france.fr/en/central-bank-digital-currency-one-two-or-none
* "China's Fintech Stocks Buoyed By Beijing's Digital Currency Push" by Luoyan Liu
(Reuters)
source:
https://uk.reuters.com/article/china-markets-digital-currency/chinas-fintech-stocks-buo
yed-by-beijings-digital-currency-push-idUKL3N26H1IO
* "On Digital Cash" by Finn Brunton (Inclusionism)
source:
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/inclusionism/inclusionism-guest-finn-jhrkZbIeoY
g/
* "Banking Disrupted By Fintech and Big Tech" by Nicolas Véron (Bruegel)
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EcyKKtQJvA
* "The Future of Money in the Digital Age" by Marcus Brunnermeier (The Peterson
Institute for International Economics)
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCZxEx7RbkM
* "Regulation Spillovers across Cryptocurrency Markets" by Nicola Borri, Kirill Shakhnov
(Finance Research Letters)
source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1544612319307470

GEOPOLITICS OF TECHNOLOGY

* "What Is an Artificial Intelligence Arms Race Anyway" by Peter Asaro (I/S)
source:
https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/isjlpsoc15&div=5&id=&pa
ge=
* "Cloud Computing, Cross-Border Data Flows and New Challenges for Measurement in
Economics" by Diane Coyle, David Nguyen (National Institute Economic Review)
source: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002795011924900112
* "What does the notion of “sovereignty” mean when referring to the digital?" by
Stephane Couture, Sophie Toupin (New Media & Society)
source: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444819865984
* "Trade War and The Grand Sino-US Race for the World’s Fastest Supercomputer" by
Greg Grigorian (Pandaily)
source:
https://pandaily.com/trade-war-and-the-grand-sino-us-race-for-the-worlds-fastest-super
computer/
* "Data Is a Development Issue" by Susan Ariel Aaronson (Center for International
Governance Innovation)
source: https://www.cigionline.org/sites/default/files/documents/paper%20no.223.pdf
* "The geopolitics of metals and metalloids used for the renewable energy transition" by
André Månberger, Bengt Johansson (Energy Strategy Reviews)
source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211467X19300872
* "The China–Us Trade War: Deep-Rooted Causes, Shifting Focus and Uncertain
Prospects" by Chi Hung Kwan (Asian Economic Policy Review)
source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/aepr.12284
* "The Artificial Intelligence Arms Race: Trends and World Leaders in Autonomous
Weapons Development" by Justin Haner, Denise Garcia (Global Policy)
source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1758-5899.12713
* "Competing With China on Technology and Innovation" by James L. Schoff, Asei Ito
(Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
source: https://carnegieendowment.org/files/ChinaRiskOpportunity-China_Tech.pdf
* "What’s At Stake in Trump’s War on Huawei: Control of the Global Computer-Chip
Industry" by Clinton Fernandes (The Conversation)
source:
https://theconversation.com/whats-at-stake-in-trumps-war-on-huawei-control-of-the-gl
obal-computer-chip-industry-124079
* "China: How Science Made a Superpower" by Shellen Wu (Nature)
source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02937-2
* "Trump's Blacklisting of China's Tech Giants Adds New Twist To Trade War" by Stephen
Bartholomeusz (The Age)
source:
https://www.theage.com.au/business/markets/trump-s-blacklisting-of-china-s-tech-gian
ts-adds-new-twist-to-trade-war-20191009-p52yzj.html
* "The Innovation Winter Is Coming: How the U.S.-China Trade War Endangers the
World" by Kimberly Houser (San Diego Law Review)
source: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3473902

THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY

* "Technology Won't Save Us from Climate Change" by Keith A. Spencer (Salon)
source:
https://www.salon.com/2019/08/31/technology-wont-save-us-from-climate-change/
* "Transformative innovation policy for solar energy: particularities of a developing
country" by D Denes_Santos, SK da Cunha (Clean Technologies and Environmental
Policy)
source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10098-019-01764-3
* "A Climate Intelligence Arms Race in Financial Markets" by Jesse M. Keenan (Science)
source: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6459/1240.summary
* "Make Fossil Fuels Great Again? The Paris Agreement, Trump, and the US Fossil Fuel
Industry" by Lukas Hermwille, Lisa Sanderink (Global Environmental Politics)
source: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/glep_a_00526
* "Confronting Climate Change" by Miriam Aczel (Science)
source: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6462/191.summary
* "The Role of Innovative Monetary Policies in Supporting the Green New Deal and a
More Sustainable Future for Europe and the World" by Deirdre De Burca (The
Foundations for the Economic Sustainability)
source:
http://www.feasta.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Green-New-Deal-FEASTA-version.pdf
* "The Green New Deal" by Jeremy Rifkin (Free Forum)
source:
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/free-forum-with/new-jeremy-rifkin-the-green-jUa
yQdVbgHo/
* "Public Works for a Green New Deal" by Reinhold Martin (Columbia GSAPP)
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_PWlZvieGA

BIG TECH & POLICY

* "Data Marketplaces: Trends and Monetisation of Data Goods" by Markus Spiekermann
(Intereconomics)
source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10272-019-0826-z
* "A review and reframing of participatory urban dashboards" by Oliver Lock (City,
Culture and Society)
source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877916618302637
* "Economic Rights Over Data: A Framework for Community Data Ownership" by
Parminder Jeet Singh, Jai Vipra (Development)
source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41301-019-00212-5
* "Prospect Patents, Data Markets and the Commons in Data Driven Medicine.
Openness and the Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights" by Katerina Sideri
(Science and Public Policy)
source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3458410
* "Are We All Amazon Primed? Consumers and the Politics of Platform Power" by
Pepper D. Culpepper, Kathleen Thelen (Comparative Political Studies)
source: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0010414019852687
* "Multisided Markets and Platform Dominance" by James Alleman et al. (SSRN)
source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3426831
* "Communications Infrastructure as Public Utility" by K. Sabeel Rahman (Take Care)
source: https://takecareblog.com/blog/communications-infrastructure-as-public-utility
* "Reining in Big Tech" by Chris Hughes, Abbott Lipsky Jr., Florencia Marotta (NYU School
of Law)
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnbp-hjlz8k
* "Industrial Policy and Planning: What It is and How to Do It Better" by Todd Tucker
(Roosevelt Institute)
source:
https://rooseveltinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/RI_Industrial-Policy-and-Plan
ning-201707.pdf
* "How and where is artificial intelligence in the public sector going? A literature review
and research agenda" by Weslei Gomes de Sousa et al. (Government Information
Quarterly)
source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X18303113
* "Survival By Technopreneurialism: Innovation, Imaginaries and the New Narrative of
Nationhood in Singapore" by Chua Hui Ching Emily (Science, Technology and Society)
source: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0971721819873202