~ From our curated Bibliography Algocracy is the rule by algorithms. Rustam Tagiew summarises technologies useful to create algocratic social machines and presents idealistic examples of their application. @SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…

~ From our curated Bibliography Isaiah Hull and Or Sattath make the first exhaustive attempt to identify and define the properties of all physical and digital forms of money. @SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…

~ From our curated Bibliography Sean Doody outlines a critical social history of reactionary media, political, and information networks in the United States and their significance to the hostility towards truth. By @FastCapitalism fastcapitalism.journal.libra…

~ From our curated Bibliography Peyman Khezr and Vijay Mohan argue that the silent limited-edition auction as currently used in NFT markets is a variant of the well-known discriminatory price auction. @SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…

~ From our curated Bibliography Jongchul Kim explores how the propertization of money market funds (MMF) shares contributed to generating the financial crisis of 2008 and discusses a possible MMF reform policy. @CasPForum papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…

~ From our curated Bibliography Noora Isomäki explores carbon markets through a chain of carbon credits starting from their production in Cambodia and ending in their buying and re-sale by the Compensate foundation in Finland. By @helsinkiuni helda.helsinki.fi/handle/101…

~ From our curated Bibliography Patrick D. Anderson places Assange’s philosophical idea in historical context, exploring his views on censorship, surveillance, and the right to communicate. By Ethics and Information Technology link.springer.com/article/10…

~ From our curated Bibliography @koraycaliskan argues that cryptocurrency exchange platforms can be understood as economization stacks that weave multiple layers and facilitate an empirically observable range of economic activities. By @sociologica_ sociologica.unibo.it/article…

~ From our curated Bibliography Technology scholars and executives in Europe and the US disagree about what the digitally connected world should be. They agree on what it shouldn’t: the Orwellian panopticon of China’s Social Credit System. By @kwerb papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…

~ From our curated Bibliography @kylelangvardt and @JamesFTierney argue that in addressing gamification regulators should avoid asserting direct control over bad software design, and instead focus on the business model that drives it. By @YaleLJournal papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…

~ From our curated Bibliography @tyler_haupert assesses the relationship between subprime lending rates among applicants to traditional and fintech mortgage lenders and metropolitan-level racial segregation in the US. By Race and Social Problems link.springer.com/article/10…

.@InigoWilkins and Bogdan Dragos zoom in on the monetary operations involved in the creation and transfer of units of account. Is it possible to view these operations as computations that mediate economic relations? financeandsociety.ed.ac.uk/a…

Dear Followers, our December edition is out! Here some of the articles you can find in our curated selection 👇 the-crypto-syllabus.com/dece…

~ From our curated Bibliography Are Decentralized Autonomous Organizations the next panopticon of algorithmic governance or a different panacea, and what does this mean for human autonomy in autonomous systems? @kelsiemvn tries to explore this question. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…

~ From our curated Bibliography @bodobalazs and @janssen_heleen explore how the use of potentially untrustworthy private technological systems in the public sector may affect the trust in government. By @AdamLawSchool papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…

~ From our curated Bibliography @f_j_j_ describes the emergence of the Ethereum network as the principle site for the development of a cryptographically tokenized mode of economic life. By @SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…

~ From our curated Bibliography @theamywhit and Roman Kräussl, for the first time, use archivally sourced primary market records to model returns on art and introduces a novel fractional equity structure for artists. By Management Science pubsonline.informs.org/doi/1…

This paper is a contemplation of a digital ethnography with the community surrounding Silk Road, the first widely used cryptomarket for drugs on the Dark Web. By @alexiamadd for @jdsr_journal jdsr.se/ojs/index.php/jdsr/a…