Darcy Allen

Writing

Books

  1. Institutional Acceleration: The Consequences of Technological Change in a Digital Economy, Cambridge University Press, 2025 (with C. Berg and Potts)
  2. When Entrepreneurs Meet: The Collective Governance of New Ideas, World Scientific, 2020.
  3. The New Technologies of Freedom, American Institute for Economic Research, 2020 (with C. Berg and Davidson).
  4. Unfreeze: How to Create a High Growth Economy After the Pandemic, American Institute for Economic Research, 2020 (with C. Berg, Davidson, Lane and Potts).
  5. Cryptodemocracy: How Blockchain Can Radically Expand Democratic Choice, Lexington Books (Series on Polycentricity: Studies in Institutional Diversity and Voluntary Governance), 2019 (with Berg and Lane).

Edited books

  1. Australia’s Red Tape Crisis: The Causes and Costs of Over-Regulation, Connor Court Publishing, Australia, 2018 (with Berg)

Journal articles

  1. Shadow User Innovation: Governing Covert Generative-AI use for Dynamic-capability Renewal, Innovation: Organization & Management (with Waters-Lynch, Potts and Berg)
  2. The Blockchain Treasury Governance Dilemma, Regulation and Governance, 2025 (with Berg and Lane)
  3. Adopting Blockchain-Based Traceability in the Fruit Supply Chain in a Developing Country: Facilitators and Barriers, Information Technology and People 38(1), 2025: 419-441 (with Yap, Nayak, Nhung, Bui and Pham)
  4. Crypto Airdrops: An Evolutionary Approach, Journal of Evolutionary Economics 2024.
  5. Decentralised Autonomous Organisations: Towards Legal Recognition under Australian Law, Australian Business Law Review 52(2), 2024: 96-116 (with Lane, C Berg)
  6. The Political Economy of Australian Regulatory Reform, Australian Journal of Public Administration 80(1) 2021, 114-137 (with Berg, Lane, McLaughlin).
  7. Why Airdrop Cryptocurrency Tokens? Journal of Business Research 163, 2023: 113945 (with C Berg and Lane).
  8. The Exchange Theory of Web3 Governance, Kyklos 76(4), 2023: 659-675 (with C Berg, Lane, MacDonald and Potts).
  9. Web3 Toolkits: A User Innovation Theory of Crypto Development, Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity 9(2) 2023: 100050 (with Potts).
  10. Repugnant Innovation, Journal of Institutional Economics, 19(6) 2023: 918-929 (with Berg and Davidson).
  11. On Coase and COVID-19, European Journal of Law and Economics 54(1), 2022: 107-125 (with Berg, Davidson, Potts).
  12. Blockchain and Investment: An Austrian Approach, Review of Austrian Economics 34, 2021: 149-162 (with Berg, Davidson, Potts).
  13. Blockchain and the Evolution of Institutional Technologies: Implications for Innovation Policy Research Policy 49(1): 1-8, 2020 (with Berg, Markey-Towler, Novak and Potts).
  14. The Governance of Blockchain Dispute Resolution, Harvard Negotiation Law Review, 25, 2020: 75-101 (with Lane and Poblet).
  15. From Athens to Blockchain: Oracles for Digital Democracy, Frontiers in Blockchain 3(575662), 2020: 1-11 (with Poblet, Konashevych, Lane, Valdivia).
  16. The Cryptoeconomics of Cities, Data and Space, Cosmos + Taxis 8(8-9), 2020: 117-129 (with Berg, Jowett, Novak, Potts).
  17. Cryptodemocratic Governance of Special Economic Zones, Journal of Special Jurisdictions 1(1), 2020: 83-101 (with Lane).
  18. Blockchain Governance: What we can Learn from the Economics of Corporate Governance, Journal of the British Blockchain Association, 3(1), 2020: 1-10 (with Berg).
  19. Governing the Entrepreneurial Discovery of Blockchain Applications, Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy 9(2), 2020: 194-212.
  20. International Policy Coordination for Blockchain Supply Chains, Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies, 6(3), 2019: 367-380 (with Berg, Davidson, Novak, Potts).
  21. Cryptodemocracy and its Institutional Possibilities, The Review of Austrian Economics 33, 2020: 363-374 (with Berg, Lane).
  22. Some Economic Consequences of the GDPR, Economics Bulletin, 39(2),2019: 1-14 (with Berg, Berg, Markey-Towler, Potts).
  23. Blockchain and Supply Chains: V-form Organisations, Value Redistributions, De-commoditisation and Quality Proxies, The Journal of the British Blockchain Association, 2(1), 2019: 57-65 (with A. Berg, Markey-Towler).
  24. Blockchain: An Entangled Political Economy Approach, Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, 33(2), 2018: 105-125 (with Berg, Novak).
  25. Subjective Political Economy, New Perspectives on Political Economy, 13(1-2), 2017: 19-40 (with Berg).
  26. How the Innovation Commons Contributes to the Development and Discovery of New Technologies, International Journal of the Commons, 10(2), 2016: 1035-54 (with Potts).
  27. Cultures of Sharing in 3D printing: What Can We Learn from the Licence Choices of Thingiverse Users?, Journal of Peer Production, 6(1), 2014: 1-11 (with Moilanen, Daly, Lobato).

Book chapters

  1. Crypto Crime as Criminal Entrepreneurship, In L. Robb and J. Floor (Eds.) Handbook on Blockchain in Society, De Gruyter, forthcoming (with Lane).
  2. Smart Contracts as Private Governance Tools In E. Stringham (Ed.), Handbook on Private Enterprise, Oxford University Press, forthcoming (with Lane).
  3. DAOs are Adaptive Governance Engines, In Werbach et al. (Ed.) Foundations of Decentralized Organizations: Blockchain and the Future of Corporate Law, Oxford University Press, 2026 (with Berg, Lane, Potts).
  4. Democratic governance and blockchain governance: Is reconciliation possible?, In Tan, E. (Ed.) Handbook on Blockchain In Public Governance, Edward Elgar 2026 (with Nabben).
  5. The Economics of Blockchain Shared Security,. In Swan, M., Takagi, S. & Witte, F. (Eds). Blockchain Economics, Cryptoeconomic Theory. London: World Scientific 2026 (with Berg and Davidson).
  6. Property rights, knowledge commons and blockchain governance, in E. Dekker and P. Kuchar, Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons, Cambridge University Press, 2021 (with Berg, Davidson, Potts).
  7. Entrepreneurial Exit: Developing the Cryptoeconomy, in Swan, Potts, Takagi, Tasco, Witte (eds.), Blockchain Economics, World Scientific, 2019, Chapter 10: 197-214.
  8. Red Tape Reduction: A New Approach, in Allen and Berg (eds.), Australia’s Red Tape Crisis: The Causes and Costs of Over-Regulation, Connor Court Publishing, 2019: 208-221.
  9. Regulation and Technological Change, in Allen and Berg (eds.), Australia’s Red Tape Crisis: The Causes and Costs of Over-Regulation, Connor Court Publishing, 2019: 222-233 (with Berg).
  10. Blockchains and the Boundaries of Self-organized Economies: Predictions for the Future of Banking, in Tasca, Aste, Pelizzon, Perony (eds.), Banking Beyond Banks and Money: A Guide to Banking Services in the Twenty-First Century. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016: 279-96 (with MacDonald and Potts).

Works in progress

  1. Crypto laureates: Law and economics of blockchains, book contract with Edward Elgar (with Lane)
  2. From closed to open sandboxes: Why default and altering rules matter (with Berg and Lane) [Status = under review]
  3. Quantum Crypto-economics: Blockchain Prediction Markets for the Evolution of Quantum Technology [status = R&R] (with Rohde, Mohan, Davidson, Berg, Brennan, Potts).
  4. Blockchain-based Traceability in Vietnamese Agriculture: An Empirical Analysis of Adoption Perceptions, Under Review (with Yap, Bui, Pham, Nhung, Nayak).
  5. Large Language Models Reduce Agency Costs, 2023 (with Berg, Potts, Ilyushina)
  6. Buyback and Burn Mechanisms: Price Manipulation or Value Signaling, 2022 (with Berg and Davidson).
  7. An Economic Theory of Blockchain Foundations, Working Paper, 2021 (with Berg, Davidson, Potts, MacDonald).
  8. Blockchain Technology and the Theory of Economic Development, Working Paper, 2019 (with Berg, Potts).
  9. Costly Signalling in DAOs (with Waters-Lynch and Power) [Status = working paper]

Appearances before parliamentary inquiries

  1. House of Representatives Inquiry into the Use of Generative AI in the Australian Education System, 9 November 2023, Monash University (with Dr Aaron Lane).
  2. Senate Select Committee on Australia as a Technology and Financial Center, 27 August 2021, Melbourne via video link (with Dr Chris Berg and Dr Aaron Lane)
  3. Senate Select Committee on Financial Technology and Regulatory Technology, 11 February 2021, Melbourne (with Dr Chris Berg and Dr Aaron Lane)
  4. Senate Committee on Red Tape, Environmental Assessments and Approvals, 22 August 2017, Perth (with Simon Breheny).
  5. Senate Committee on Red Tape, The Effect of Red Tape on the Sale, Supply and Taxation of Alcohol, 24 February 2017, Sydney (with Dr Chris Berg).
  6. Senate Standing Committee on Economics, Inquiry into Criminal, Civil and Administrative Penalties into White Collar Crime, 6 December 2016, Melbourne (with Andrew Bushnell).
  7. Victorian Standing Committee on Economy and Infrastructure, Inquiry into Ride Sourcing Services, 8 September 2016, Melbourne (with Dr Chris Berg and Aaron Lane).

Policy reports

Submissions to inquiries

  1. Productivity in a time of rapid technological change (2026, submission to the Senate Inquiry into Productivity in Australia, with Berg).
  2. Payments and competition in a digital economy (2026, submission to the House of Representatives Inquiry into Schemes, Digital Wallets and Innovation in the Payments Sector, with Berg).
  3. Regulatory sandboxes fail because they get the default rule wrong (submission to the Independent Review of the Enhanced Regulatory Sandbox, 2026, with Berg and Lane)
  4. Submission to the News Bargaining Incentive Consultation Paper (January 2026, with Berg)
  5. Australian Crypto Crime as Entrepreneurship (submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement’s inquiry into Combatting Crime as a Service) (October 2025, with Lane)
  6. Information and markets for a circular economy (submission to the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into the circular economy) (April 2025, with Berg)
  7. Submission to the Strategic Examination of R&D discussion paper (April 2025, with Berg, Lane, Potts)
  8. Submission to ASIC’s CP381 on INFO 225 on Digital Assets (February 2025, with Berg).
  9. Submission to the Australian Treasury’s Consultation on a Proposed New Digital Competition Regime (February 2025, with Berg, Lane, Potts, Auer, Manne, Radic)
  10. Submission to the House of Representatives Inquiry into Australian Agriculture in Southeast Asian Markets (August 2024, with Berg and Lane)
  11. Submission to the Senate Select Committee into Adopting Artificial Intelligence (May 2024, with Berg and Lane). (cited in the final report).
  12. Submission to the Parliament of New South Wales Legislative Council Inquiry into Artificial Intelligence(December 2023, with Berg and Lane)
  13. Submission to the Treasury Consultation on Regulating Digital Asset Platforms Proposal Paper (December 2023, with Berg, Lane, Morton, Potts)
  14. Submission to the Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, Parliament of South Australia (August 2023, with Berg and Lane).
  15. Submission to the Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training Inquiry into the use of generative artificial intelligence in the Australian education system. (2023, with Berg, Morton, Nguyen, Phuong, Thomas) [invited as expert witness]
  16. Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Economics inquiry into the ‘Digital Assets (Market Regulation) Bill 2023’ (2023, with Lane, Berg, Morton, Parasol, and Potts). [cited 13 times in the Final Report.]
  17. Submission to the Commonwealth Treasury Token Mapping Consultation Paper (with Lane, Berg, Morton, Parasol, and Potts).
  18. Submission to the Senate Select Committee on Australia as a Technology and Financial Centre (with Berg, Davidson, Lane, MacDonald, Morton, and Potts). [cited 15 times in Final Reportincluding direct citation in a recommendation]
  19. Submission to the Senate Select Committee on Financial Technology and Regulatory Technology (2020, with Berg, Davidson, Lane, MacDonald, Morton, and Potts). [Cited in the Second Interim Report]
  20. Submission to the Australia and Singapore Digital Cooperation Initiative renegotiation of the Digital Economy Agreement of the Singapore-Australia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA). (2019, with Berg, Davidson, Lane, Potts).
  21. ‘The Limits of the Digital Platforms Inquiry’, Submission on the Final Report of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Digital Platforms Inquiry (2019, with Auer, Berg, Hurwitz, Lane, Manne, Morris, Potts). Cited in the Final Report.
  22. Submission to Senate Standing Committee Inquiry into My Health Record System (2018, with Berg, Berg, Davidson, Lane, Novak and Potts).
  23. Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics Inquiry into Impediments to Business Investment. (2018, with Berg, Berg, Davidson, Lane, Novak and Potts). Cited in the House of Representatives Final Report.
  24. Submission to Review of National Arrangements for the Protection and Management of Identity Information, (2018, with Berg, Berg, Davidson, Lane, Novak and Potts).

This section contains a selection of opinion pieces and blogs I have written. These have been published in outlets including The Australian, Herald Sun, Sydney Morning Herald, The West Australian, The Weekly Times, The Queensland Times, Hobart Mercury, OECD Insights, Machine Lawyering, Foundation for Economic Education, among others.