Information rules (Part 4: Regulating platforms – Paradigms for competition) Phuah Eng Chye (19 December 2020) Platformed corporations challenge the law’s capabilities and legislators’ willingness to sustain checks and balances in both global and national markets, noting, for instance, that current competition law fails to address the kind of issues raised. This has sparked debates … “Information rules (Part 4: Regulating platforms – Paradigms for competition)”
Information rules (Part 3: Regulating platforms – Reviews, models and challenges)
Information rules (Part 3: Regulating platforms – Reviews, models and challenges) Phuah Eng Chye (5 December 2020) Platforms occupy a central role in the transition to an information society. They are the vehicles propagating the use of information. They act as the information base for innovation, digitalisation, participation, monetisation, exchange and coordination. Platforms have introduced … “Information rules (Part 3: Regulating platforms – Reviews, models and challenges)”
Information rules (Part 2: Capitalism, democracy and the path forward)
Information rules (Part 2: Capitalism, democracy and the path forward) Phuah Eng Chye (21 November 2020) Information rules and capitalism Information rules, particularly those that codify rights, play a critical role in shaping social relations and reinforcing ideological beliefs. Katharina Pistor points out the coding of assets “have characterized the evolution of capitalism over the … “Information rules (Part 2: Capitalism, democracy and the path forward)”
Information rules (Part 1: Law, code and changing rules of the game)
Information rules (Part 1: Law, code and changing rules of the game) Phuah Eng Chye (7 November 2020) Every age has its potential regulator, its threat to liberty. Our founders feared a newly empowered federal government; the Constitution is written against that fear. John Stuart Mill worried about the regulation by social norms in nineteenth-century … “Information rules (Part 1: Law, code and changing rules of the game)”
Hayek: Economic models in the context of a pandemic and the information society
Hayek: Economic models in the context of a pandemic and the information society Phuah Eng Chye (24 October 2020) During the 1940s when scientific planning, conscious organization of industry and socialism were fashionable, Friedrich A. Hayek argued it was a fallacy to believe a whole economic system could be directed “according to one unified plan”. … “Hayek: Economic models in the context of a pandemic and the information society”
Hayek: The coordination problem, prices and information
Hayek: The coordination problem, prices and information Phuah Eng Chye (10 October 2020) “The peculiar character of the problem of a rational economic order is determined precisely by the fact that the knowledge of the circumstances of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form but solely as the dispersed bits … “Hayek: The coordination problem, prices and information”