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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.
The China Business Conundrum: Ensure That "Win-Win" Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice (Wiley, 2024) describes former CEO of Silicon Valley Ban…
The redistribution of political and economic rights is inherently unequal in autocratic societies. Autocrats routinely divide their populations into i…
How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political barriers to providing the rule o…
In Coalitions of the Weak (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Victor C. Shih investigates how leaders of one-party autocracies seek to dominate the el…
Social networks existed and shaped our lives long before Silicon Valley startups made them virtual. For over two decades economist Matthew O. Jackson,…
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…
Fear pervades dictatorial regimes. Citizens fear leaders, the regime's agents fear superiors, and leaders fear the masses. The ubiquity of fear in suc…
What does the state do when public expectations exceed its governing capacity? The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in…
Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Prediction Machines describe what you can do to prepare. B…
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…
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…
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. …
Digital platforms controlled by Alibaba, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, Tencent and Uber have transformed not only the ways we do business, but …
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…
How do states coerce citizens into compliance while simultaneously minimizing backlash? In Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporar…
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 …
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 (…
From social media posts and text messages to digital government documents and archives, researchers are bombarded with a deluge of text reflecting the…
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…
Roselyn Hsueh’s Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism (Cambridge, 2022) presents a new framework for understanding how developing countries in…
The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality (Routledge, 2021) is about methods for using observational data to make causal inferences…
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…
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…
Formal mathematical models have provided tremendous insights into politics in recent decades. Formal Models of Domestic Politics (Cambridge UP, 2021)…