• Long biography

    I am an academic and writer. My research has been published across economics, law and public policy in leading journals including Research Policy, the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, Journal of Institutional Economics, and the Australian Journal of Public Administration. I study web3 as a Senior Research Fellow the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub (Melbourne, Australia). I also advise various web3 projects on cryptoeconomic…

  • Response to Questions on Notice to Senate Select Committee into Fintech and Regtech

    Response to questions on notice received at the Senate Select Committee into Fintech and Regtech public hearings on 11 February 2021. These responses are joint with Dr Chris Berg and Dr Aaron Lane and can be downloaded here: https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=95b6b6d3-f9fa-4dc5-94d1-7705d7445250

  • Opening Statement to Senate Select Committee into Fintech and Regtech

    [This is the Hansard of the opening statement delivered on behalf of Dr Chris Berg, Dr Aaron Lane and myself to the Senate Select Committee into Fintech and Regtech] Good morning. We welcome the opportunity to appear before this important committee today. I’m delivering this opening statement on behalf of my associates Dr Chris Berg,…

  • How can we discover what defi is good for?

    Originally a post at Cryptoeconomics. The blockchain world is currently obsessed with defi. In the past few months, billions in digital value have been staked, swapped and farmed in radical experiments using liquidity pools, automatic market makers and decentralised exchanges. Defi is easily belittled as a collection of scam-riddled projects powered by magic internet money. Perhaps. But more…

  • The Political Economy of Australian Regulatory Reform

    Published in the Australian Journal of Public Administration (together with Chris Berg, Aaron M Lane and Patrick A McLaughlin). Abstract: The problem of regulatory accumulation has increasingly been recognised as a policy problem in its own right. Governments have then devised and implemented regulatory reform policies that directly seek to ameliorate the burdens of regulatory…

  • The Cryptoeconomics of Cities, Data and Space

    Published in Cosmos + Taxis (together with Chris Berg, Mikayla Novak, Kiersten Jowett and Jason Potts). Abstract: We explore the connection between new decentralised data infrastructure and the spatial organisation of cities. Recent advances in digital technologies for data generation, storage and coordination (e.g. blockchain-based supply chains and proof-of-location services) enables more granulated, decentralised and…

  • From Athens to the Blockchain: Oracles for Digital Democracy

    Forthcoming paper in Frontiers in Blockchain (together with Marta Poblet, Oleksii Konashevych, Aaron M. Lane and Carlos A. Diaz Valdivia) Abstract: Oracles were trusted sources of knowledge for public deliberation in classical Athens. Very much like expert and technical knowledge, divine advice was embedded in the deliberation and decision-making process of the democratic Assembly. While…

  • What we think we know about defi

    Originally a post at Cryptoeconomics with the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub team. The financial sector exists solely to smooth economic activity and trade. It is the network of organisations, markets, rules, and services that move capital around the global economy so it can be deployed to the most profitable use. It has evolved as modern…

  • When Entrepreneurs Meet: The Collective Governance of New Ideas

    A book published with World Scientific. When Entrepreneurs Meet: The Collective Governance of New Ideas challenges our understanding of how entrepreneurs crystallize opportunities surrounding new technologies. While innovation is the fundamental driver of growth and prosperity, how the earliest stages of entrepreneurship are governed remains elusive. This book creates a new, institutional approach to understanding…

  • The New Technologies of Freedom

    Book published with the American Institute for Economic Research (with Chris Berg and Sinclair Davidson). We are on the cusp of a dramatic wave of technological change – from blockchain to automated smart contracts, artificial intelligence and machine learning to advances in cryptography and digitisation, from Internet of Things to advanced communications technologies. These are…

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