Weekend Reading, Listening and Watching Recommendations (September 20, 2024)
The Electric Vehicle Developmental State; How to start an advance market commitment; When things fall apart; NBER Economics of Artificial Intelligence Conference
Read: The Electric Vehicle Developmental State: BYD exemplifies transformations in Chinese industrial policy (via Phenomenal World)
Read: How to start an advance market commitment: Advance Market Commitments allow us to buy technology from the future to support its development: vaccines, carbon capture technology, and even spacecraft. Here’s how you can start your own. (via Works in Progress)
Listen: When things fall apart: Climate change, political unrest, random violence - society can often feel like what the filmmaker Werner Herzog calls, "a thin layer of ice on top of an ocean of chaos and darkness." This idea is often called "veneer theory." But is this idea rooted in historical reality? (via NPR Throughline)
Watch: NBER Economics of Artificial Intelligence Conference