The development of Web3 - a stack of decentralised technologies underpinned by blockchains - isn’t simply a technical or financing challenge, it is also a problem of innovation and entrepreneurial discovery. In this paper we apply the lens of user innovation toolkit theory to the development...

This Element develops a theory of institutional acceleration to explain the transformation to a digital economy through a cluster of frontier technologies: artificial intelligence, blockchain, quantum computing, cryptography, and low-earth orbit infrastructure. Unlike previous technological...

Introduction to blockchain technologies -- Blockchain in sports and marketing business models -- Truth and trust in sports -- Sports data as an economic output -- New organisation forms in sports -- eSports and the metaverse -- The future for blockchain in sports.

From an epidemiological perspective, the COVID-19 pandemic is a public health crisis. From an economic perspective, it is an externality and a social cost. Strikingly, almost all economic policy to address the infection externality has been formulated within a Pigovian analysis of implicit taxes...

This paper investigates the industrial organization of casino gambling and develops a theory of the casino as an economic institution which emerges to reduce transaction costs. This theory is based upon the insight that the play of table games – typically seen as a production process or as a...