In the new Competition Law, Economics and Philosophy (linktr.ee/CompetitionLEP) post, I explain why "useful knowledge" from Joel Mokyr is essential for competition lawyers interested in the rise of AI and the crisis of democracy: lnkd.in/d8jA6PS6
I also explain what makes him a complexity economist
An article by Stavros Makris and me, 🔹Antitrust and complex democracy: Reclaiming markets from technofeudalism🔹, has been nominated for the 2026 Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards.
Find, read, vote:
awards.concurrences.com/en/awards/20...
My most recent review argues that 'Complexity in Economics' and 'Agent-Based Modelling: A Tool for Complexity' might be a crucial stepping stone between the theory of complexity economics and its application to agent-based models of competitive markets:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I have greatly admired the Stanford Computational Antitrust project (@codexstanford.bsky.social) since its inception in early 2021.
Therefore, it was a tremendous surprise for me to be invited and join the Team.
My thanks go to @profschrepel.bsky.social for his trust in me 🙏
📘 It's motivating to start another year of a PhD in law with a book review published in an economic journal.
📕 This text holds special importance for me, as I had to draw upon all the knowledge of complexity economics I gained during my PhD while writing it.
(papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....)
📕New article with Stavros Makris
Antitrust and Complex Democracy:
Reclaiming Markets from Technofeudalism
What role can competition law play in a citizens' society challenged by the power of digital platforms❓
Text
www.concurrences.com/en/review/is...
Abstract
filiplubinski.org/2025/07/21/a...
Both of my essays on Complexity Science, initially written for Competition Law Insight and now updated, are already available at the SSRN 📔 📔
(new)
2️⃣ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
and
1️⃣ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Can the US win the "trade war" with Canada?
Is economics a science about life or death?
These are only two of many questions Galbraith and Chen try to answer from an entropy-oriented perspective in their new book.
Check my review to learn their way of reasoning:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
3/3
However, it might be useful to those looking for a general overview of the topic and may bring comments that will be helpful in my future work.
2/3
DISCLAIMER: Due to its form and length, the text simplifies (oh, the irony) many aspects of the ongoing discussion and needs intense development to give complete justice to the presented research.
1/3
Some time ago, I got asked to prepare two short (3k words) "popular science" essays on antitrust and complexity. Here comes the first one.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
This Saturday, I had one of the nicest experiences of my young scholar's life. When I was doing my groceries, a cashier petrified and whispered, "Professore Lubinski?"
I realized he was attending my Università degli Studi di Firenze Competition Law lectures, and we had a chat 💙
#MohooMart
3/3
The essay looks for insights from the history of international law and briefly presents the pacing problem that emerged in the early 20th century, an era of the first airplane flights.
#Law, #AI, #Technology, #EU
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
2/3
It uses the Law & Technology concept of the "pacing problem," an issue arising when a fast-developing technology impacts society too quickly for governments to protect people through laws and regulations, to analyze the timing of legislative measures undertaken by the EU.
Did the European Union get the pacing of the law right with the Artificial Intelligence Act?
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
This short essay, written at the peak of interest in the world’s first comprehensive horizontal legal framework for AI, tries to answer that question.
1/3
My review of Gregory Besharov's "Microeconomics in Words" (2024) is already available on the Journal of Economics website.
You can download the unabridged version from here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Suppose you're bored with people who (just like me) speak about complexity economics in theory without putting it into practice. In that case, you must reach for the new 'Elements in Complexity and Agent-Based Economics' CUP series.
Books reviewed:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
In less than two weeks, I'll give a lecture at Manchester University on Adam Smith as a precursor of Complexity Economics 🏭
Great thanks to Prof. Nuno Gil for inviting me and to Prof. Carliss Baldwin for pointing his attention at me 🙏
To Be or Not to Be (1942, dir. Ernst Lubitsch)
Scandalous when released at the height of WWII, satire of Nazism is now remembered as one of the funniest, bravest, noblest, most modern comedies Old Hollywood ever produced: a tribute to laughter in dark times and a true essential.
Shape of Ukraine's territory in yellow, representing pre-war times, on a dark blue background. Above it, the text 'Courage has a name' is written. Inside the shape, 'Ukraine' is written in dark blue. The EU logo is in the bottom right corner, and #StandWithUkraine is in the bottom left corner.
603,628 KM² 🇺🇦🇪🇺
Science done in Tuscany is like 🍷
The @routledgebuseco.bsky.social has published a long handbook of 37 chapters by the most excellent experts in complexity economics.
www.routledge.com/Routledge-In...
I wrote a concise review about the advantages and disadvantages of such a scale of a publication.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
🏅 To my surprise, the short article I wrote on the most recent Nobel Prize in Economics winners — Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson — and Classical Political Economy got into the TOP10 @SSRN downloads in its category.
You can check the working paper here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Pearce, in 1994, wrote about then-recent books on complexity economics.
The 2024/25 list would be much longer (Farmer, Roos, Elsner, Pyka, Chens, Galbraith, Gallegatis, Landini, Alstons, Mueller...) 📚
Have I forgotten someone?
Long-awaited contribution by Wolfgang Wurmnest discussing the changing paths of L&E in Competition Law 📙
www.jura.uni-hamburg.de/die-fakultae...
Grounded 👌
“The old doctrine that the slavery of the black, is essential to the freedom of the white race … belongs with the commercial fallacies long ago exposed by Adam Smith.”
Frederick Douglass,
November 17, 1864
A forward-looking report by @oecd-ocde.bsky.social and @iiasa.ac.at.
"A systems approach should be applied to both the system to be governed and the governance system itself."
www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
Will complexity economics become 21st-century mainstream?
Learn from the summary of what might be the first comprehensive textbook of this school:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I got inspired by the 2O24 'Nobel Prize in Economics' to write an article comparing Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson's research program (#NewInstitutionalEconomics) with Classical Political Economy 📔
Working paper:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
All comments welcome!
