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Scaling Theory is a podcast dedicated to the power laws behind the growth of companies, technologies, legal and living systems. The host, Dr. Thibault Schrepel, has a PhD in antitrust law and looks at the regulation of digital ecosystems through the lens of complexity theory.
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- Aug 31, 2026
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John H. Cochrane on Empty Skies (opens the original)
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John H. Cochrane is the Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He spent thirty years as a professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He writes The Grumpy Economist (over 34,000 subscribers). Cochrane is a pilot, and the empty skies are his example of what permission costs when it compounds for fifty years. We cover three things. Why compound growth dwarfs everything else on the policy agenda and still moves almost no voters. What ha
Peter Howitt on Creative Destruction in the Age of AI (opens the original)
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Peter Howitt won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. The award was for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction. He and Philippe Aghion gave that theory a mathematical form in 1992. Competition and innovation do not move together in a straight line. What decides the direction is where a firm sits relative to the technological frontier. Peter also draws the line between a merger that buys innovation and one that removes it, and he describes the route by which an incumben
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