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About Peter Lorentzen
I am an economics professor at the University of San Francisco. I head our Applied Economics Master's program, which focuses on the digital economy. My own research is mainly on China's political economy.Peter Lorentzen is economics professor at the University of San Francisco. He heads USF's Applied Economics Master's program, which focuses on the digital economy. His research is mainly on China's political economy.
NBN Episodes hosted by Peter:
November 16, 2024
From Click to Boom
How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political barriers to providing the rule o…
October 10, 2024
Coalitions of the Weak
In Coalitions of the Weak (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Victor C. Shih investigates how leaders of one-party autocracies seek to dominate the el…
January 5, 2024
The Human Network
Social networks existed and shaped our lives long before Silicon Valley startups made them virtual. For over two decades economist Matthew O. Jackson,…
September 14, 2023
Precarious Ties
Developing Asia has been the site of some of the last century's fastest growing economies as well as some of the world's most durable authoritarian re…
March 7, 2023
Dictatorship and Information
Fear pervades dictatorial regimes. Citizens fear leaders, the regime's agents fear superiors, and leaders fear the masses. The ubiquity of fear in suc…
February 3, 2023
The Performative State
What does the state do when public expectations exceed its governing capacity? The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in…
January 24, 2023
Power and Prediction
Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Prediction Machines describe what you can do to prepare. B…
January 14, 2023
Game Theory and Behavior
Jeffrey Carpenter and Andrea Robbett's book Game Theory and Behavior (MIT Press, 2022) is an introduction to game theory that offers not only theoreti…
December 19, 2022
SQL for Data Scientists
Economists and other social scientists are used to working with data that comes nicely organized into a table with a series of variable names across t…
December 18, 2022
Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts
For decades, a few numbers came to define Chinese politics--until those numbers did not count what mattered and what they counted did not measure up. …
November 30, 2022
The Economics of Platforms
Digital platforms controlled by Alibaba, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, Tencent and Uber have transformed not only the ways we do business, but …
November 22, 2022
Trafficking Data
On August 6, 2020, the Trump Administration issued a ban on TikTok in the United States, requiring that the owner, Beijing-based Bytedance, sell the c…
November 18, 2022
Outsourcing Repression
How do states coerce citizens into compliance while simultaneously minimizing backlash? In Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporar…
November 1, 2022
The Tao of Alibaba
This podcast features Brian A. Wong, discussing his new book, The Tao of Alibaba: Inside the Chinese Digital Giant That is Changing the World (Public …
September 9, 2022
Surveillance State
As we build the AI-powered digital economy, how far do we want to go? Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control (…
September 5, 2022
Text as Data
From social media posts and text messages to digital government documents and archives, researchers are bombarded with a deluge of text reflecting the…
August 29, 2022
An Economist Goes to the Game
Should you train your kid to become a pro athlete? Why do Koreans dominate women’s golf? Why should ticket scalpers get more respect? Why are pro spo…
August 12, 2022
Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism
Roselyn Hsueh’s Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism (Cambridge, 2022) presents a new framework for understanding how developing countries in…
August 4, 2022
The Effect
The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality (Routledge, 2021) is about methods for using observational data to make causal inferences…
July 21, 2022
Doing Economics
Graduate students and newly-minted economists often find that while their time in graduate school taught them a lot about great research of the past a…
July 14, 2022
China's Contained Resource Curse
Contrary to intuition, many countries have found that having abundant natural resources such as petroleum or diamonds may be a curse as much as a bles…
June 30, 2022
Formal Models of Domestic Politics
Formal mathematical models have provided tremendous insights into politics in recent decades. Formal Models of Domestic Politics (Cambridge UP, 2021)…
June 22, 2022
Don't Trust Your Gut
Today I talked to Seth Stephens-Davidowitz about his new book Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in LIfe (Dey Street Books, …
June 17, 2022
Spin Dictators
Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning au…