Sebastian Benthall is a Research Fellow for the Information Law Institute at New York University School of Law. He is also a Research Engineer for Econ-ARK, an open source toolkit for structural economic modeling with heterogeneous agents. He holds a doctorate in Information Management and Systems from University of California, Berkeley.

April 11, 2024

Analysis

The Electric Vehicle Developmental State

BYD exemplifies transformations in Chinese industrial policy

The rise of the Chinese EV industry has been enabled not only by generous government subsidies but also by profound changes in strategy and organization, and in particular by a distinctive revival of vertical integration—at both individual firm and national…

July 27, 2020

Analysis

Essential Infrastructures

The case for sovereign investment in telecommunications infrastructure

, Jake Goldenfein

How should the fabric of social life, especially as it is rewoven by the pandemic, relate to the private ownership of telecommunications?