Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 31/08/2026siliconcontinent.comOpenAI thought it was testing agents. It had founded an organization.The agents colluded, cheated, and hacked Hugging Face 000
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 27/08/2026siliconcontinent.comThe Dutch are filling gas wells with cementOn the politics of irreversible decisions 000
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 30/07/2026siliconcontinent.comWhat do consultants get paid for?The analysis is the easy part 000
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 06/07/2026siliconcontinent.comHow to avoid being held up by the labsOpen banking, harnesses, and the strongest economic force of all 000
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 14/06/2026siliconcontinent.comNineteen thoughts on AI and EuropeProtectionism and industrial policy won't fix our problems 010
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 31/05/2026siliconcontinent.comWhy current purchasing power parity doesn't measure growthComparing prices across countries is not the same as comparing them across time 010
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 22/05/2026siliconcontinent.comThree theses on AI value captureImplications for Middle Powers 000
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 12/05/2026siliconcontinent.comEuropean stagnation is realPaul Krugman, iPhones, and the walking around test. 011
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 07/05/2026siliconcontinent.comThe two EuropesEurope’s security shock is deepening its economic divide 000
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 24/04/2026siliconcontinent.comThe task is not the jobA supply-side answer to Amodei and Imas 000
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 09/04/2026siliconcontinent.comWhat explains heterogeneity in AI adoption?Management and incentives matter 000
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 27/03/2026siliconcontinent.comThe Smart Second Mover, Part IILessons from Ukraine and China on how to mobilize public sector demand 000
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 17/03/2026siliconcontinent.comCalling something the 28th regime does not make it oneThe trick to achieve more is to cover less 000
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 16/02/2026siliconcontinent.comWhy Sweden has so many unicornsEurope’s problem is not the lack of venture capital 000
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 06/02/2026siliconcontinent.comThe trouble with windIt's a poor choice for the future 000
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 21/01/2026siliconcontinent.comSixteen thoughts on GreenlandThe strong must suffer too 010
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 15/01/2026siliconcontinent.comThe Auto OmnibusGrowth still comes last 000
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 02/01/2026siliconcontinent.comA New Year’s letter to a young personTake the messy job 010
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 18/12/2025siliconcontinent.comThe EU and the not-so-simple macroeconomics of AIMy Podcast with Epoch AI 000
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 04/12/2025siliconcontinent.comHow Brussels writes so many lawsExplaining Europe’s extraordinary legal productivity 001
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 28/11/2025siliconcontinent.comPolitics without trade-offsA new paper with Adam Brzezinski 000
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 14/11/2025siliconcontinent.comWhat a toad tells us about Europe’s housing problemsThe commission can make it easier to build 000
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 10/11/2025siliconcontinent.comThe Constitution of InnovationA New European Renaissance 000
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 13/10/2025siliconcontinent.comThe failure of MacronThe supply-side reforms that weren't 000
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 02/10/2025siliconcontinent.comDesigned for WeaknessThe European Commission’s leadership problem 000
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 24/09/2025siliconcontinent.comWhy is the AI Act so hard to kill?Some insight into how the sausage is made 000
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 28/08/2025siliconcontinent.comR without GGood news on AI could be bad news for Europe's debt problems 000
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 20/08/2025siliconcontinent.comEuropean nuclear could be cheapA UK taskforce shows how to cut cost without touching safety 000
Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 02/08/2025siliconcontinent.comThe surrender in Turnberry11 thoughts on the EU-US trade deal 000