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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial]

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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
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OpenAI thought it was testing agents. It had founded an organization.
The agents colluded, cheated, and hacked Hugging Face
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
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The Dutch are filling gas wells with cement
On the politics of irreversible decisions
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 30/07/2026
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What do consultants get paid for?
The analysis is the easy part
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 06/07/2026
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How to avoid being held up by the labs
Open banking, harnesses, and the strongest economic force of all
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 14/06/2026
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Nineteen thoughts on AI and Europe
Protectionism and industrial policy won't fix our problems
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 31/05/2026
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Why current purchasing power parity doesn't measure growth
Comparing prices across countries is not the same as comparing them across time
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 22/05/2026
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Three theses on AI value capture
Implications for Middle Powers
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 12/05/2026
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European stagnation is real
Paul Krugman, iPhones, and the walking around test.
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 07/05/2026
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The two Europes
Europe’s security shock is deepening its economic divide
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 24/04/2026
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The task is not the job
A supply-side answer to Amodei and Imas
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 09/04/2026
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What explains heterogeneity in AI adoption?
Management and incentives matter
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 27/03/2026
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The Smart Second Mover, Part II
Lessons from Ukraine and China on how to mobilize public sector demand
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 17/03/2026
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Calling something the 28th regime does not make it one
The trick to achieve more is to cover less
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 16/02/2026
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Why Sweden has so many unicorns
Europe’s problem is not the lack of venture capital
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 06/02/2026
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The trouble with wind
It's a poor choice for the future
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 21/01/2026
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Sixteen thoughts on Greenland
The strong must suffer too
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 15/01/2026
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The Auto Omnibus
Growth still comes last
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 02/01/2026
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A New Year’s letter to a young person
Take the messy job
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 18/12/2025
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The EU and the not-so-simple macroeconomics of AI
My Podcast with Epoch AI
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 04/12/2025
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How Brussels writes so many laws
Explaining Europe’s extraordinary legal productivity
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 28/11/2025
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Politics without trade-offs
A new paper with Adam Brzezinski
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 14/11/2025
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What a toad tells us about Europe’s housing problems
The commission can make it easier to build
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 10/11/2025
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The Constitution of Innovation
A New European Renaissance
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 13/10/2025
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The failure of Macron
The supply-side reforms that weren't
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 02/10/2025
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Designed for Weakness
The European Commission’s leadership problem
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 24/09/2025
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Why is the AI Act so hard to kill?
Some insight into how the sausage is made
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 28/08/2025
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R without G
Good news on AI could be bad news for Europe's debt problems
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 20/08/2025
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European nuclear could be cheap
A UK taskforce shows how to cut cost without touching safety
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Silicon Continent | Pieter Garicano | Substack [Unofficial] @siliconcontinent.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 02/08/2025
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The surrender in Turnberry
11 thoughts on the EU-US trade deal
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