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2026 20

  1. The Origin of Species
  2. OpenAI thought it was testing agents. It had founded an organization.
  3. The Dutch are filling gas wells with cement
  4. What do consultants get paid for?
  5. AI and Messy Jobs
  6. How to avoid being held up by the labs
  7. Nineteen thoughts on AI and Europe
  8. The Mismeasurement of European Productivity (Revised)
  9. Three theses on AI value capture
  10. European stagnation is real
  11. The two Europes
  12. The task is not the job
  13. What explains heterogeneity in AI adoption?
  14. The Smart Second Mover, Part II
  15. Calling something the 28th regime does not make it one
  16. Why Sweden has so many unicorns
  17. The trouble with wind
  18. Sixteen thoughts on Greenland
  19. The Auto Omnibus
  20. A New Year’s letter to a young person

2025 44

  1. The EU and the not-so-simple macroeconomics of AI
  2. How Brussels writes so many laws
  3. Politics without trade-offs
  4. What a toad tells us about Europe’s housing problems
  5. The Constitution of Innovation
  6. The failure of Macron
  7. Designed for Weakness
  8. Why is the AI Act so hard to kill?
  9. R without G
  10. European nuclear could be cheap
  11. The surrender in Turnberry
  12. The AI Becker problem
  13. Learning to love Baumol
  14. The smart second mover
  15. The €5 Trillion Question
  16. Can AI solve Europe’s problems?
  17. The hidden costs of modern monetary policy
  18. Should everyone get an AI industry?
  19. How a bad sanctions mix saved Putin
  20. The Return of the Doom Loop?
  21. How to build a Capital Markets Union
  22. The myth of the single market
  23. Towards digital dollarization?
  24. Anatomy of an Error
  25. Where are Europe’s YIMBYs?
  26. Is the euro ready to become a safe haven?
  27. How to pay for European defense
  28. Three hidden fault lines beneath the financial system
  29. Free the Universities
  30. Book review: Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
  31. Learning from Latin America
  32. Policies without Politics
  33. Trading with Bullies
  34. Is Spain booming?
  35. What would Monnet do?
  36. How to torch 220 billion euros
  37. Target price, not quantity
  38. 20 thoughts on the Competitiveness Compass
  39. Ten Principles for a New Climate Policy
  40. Battle with the rules
  41. Notes from Ukraine
  42. The Second China Shock is here
  43. Focus on the Micro, not the Macro
  44. A Tale of Two Platforms

2024 16

  1. You get what you pay for
  2. Intermittency Trap
  3. What Draghi gets wrong
  4. Failure Costs
  5. Do we need banks?
  6. It is all about the superstars
  7. The Compliance Doom Loop
  8. The end of luxury rules
  9. The Strange Kafka World of the EU AI Act
  10. How to think about the economic impact of AI
  11. The Problem Isn't Public R&D
  12. Why tariffs won't save our car industry
  13. A simple solution to the energy crisis
  14. Can Europe pay top academics as much as bad footballers?
  15. Housing policy is innovation policy
  16. Is GDPR undermining innovation in Europe?