Podcast appearances and mentions of carl shapiro

Mark Richards (1953–) is a convicted murderer serving life without parole in California State Prison, SolanoWikipedia's W.svg at Vacaville, California.[1] He prefers to be known as "Captain" Richards, although he never served in the military. After graduating from high school in 1971, he attended the College of Marin and then graduated from Dominican College in San Rafael in 1976. He has spun multiple bizarre yarns about his service in the so-called "Secret Space Program" battling alien forces, in addition to his imaginary service in the US NavyInvestigation by a journalist from the Marin Independent Journal revealed a dimension to the murder that was literally incredible. The writer, Erik Ingram, reported that behind the Baldwin murder "may be a secret organization, called Pendragon, that appeared to be planning an armed takeover of Marin." Ingram reported that police detectives had retrieved from Richards' home maps, aerial photographs of Marin County, plans for a laser-gun, instructions for the construction of machine-guns, and "notebooks containing references to a new form of government." He wrote that behind the Baldwin murder "may be a secret organization, called Pendragon, that appeared to be planning an armed takeover of Marin."In the weeks that followed, a number of witnesses came forward with stories indicating that the Pendragon group in fact existed. Crossie Hoover told investigators that one of the inducements to the murder was Richards' promise to appoint him Duke of Angel's Island. It appears that Richards fantasized about converting Marin County into a version of King Arthur's Camelot, with himself as King. He allegedly promoted plans in meetings with his workers to take over Marin County by destroying the Golden Gate and Richmond-San Rafael bridges and placing a laser gun on top of Mount Tamalpais. Carl Shapiro, a San Anselmo attorney representing Richards, asserted that the documents found by the police were research materials for a science-fiction book (Imperial Marin) that Richards was writing. The prosecution countered that regardless of Richards's writing, he used the Pendragon material to manipulate Hoover into committing the murder.Starting in November 2013, Richards became a major source for conspiracy theorist Kerry Cassidy. On that date Cassidy conducted a 1h 18m video interview[2] at the prison in Vacaville. Cassidy regards Richards as an important whistleblower exposing the "Secret Space Program." She has said that he was framed for the Baldwin murder, and that he is imprisoned by the Illuminati-Draco run planetary government.[3][note 1] At the time of writing Cassidy says she has conducted nine interviews with Richards, for an aggregate time over 14 hours. Since recording devices are not allowed in the prison, the normal format of these videos is Cassidy speaking to camera recalling what was said immediately after her meeting with the convict. Her tenth Interview with Richards was released in March, 2019.Much of the material consists of tales of personal heroism, as Richards commands exotic space battleships fighting and defeating aliens. He commanded an Orion battleship at the asteroid Vesta in August 1979. Soon after that, he led an attack against aliens to reclaim a secret base at Dulce, New Mexico. The aliens had violated a treaty and abducted humans for experimentation.[4]Richards claims that he was on active duty at the age of 13, with a high security clearance. After graduating from high school, Richards said he became an Army officer flying helicopters in Vietnam and later became a Navy Captain. He also claims to be a Rhodes Scholar with several advanced degrees and to be a member at the highest levels of the Republican National Committee. Neither Cassidy or Richards have provided documentation to support his claims.[5]Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.

This is the Google on Trial podcast.Here is an update on the United States v. Google trial for September 20-22, 2023, The second week of testimony began on September 19th with Kent Walker, the company's senior vice president of global affairs, testifying that Google does not engage in anticompetitive behavior and that the company's dominance in the online advertising market is the result of "innovation and merit."On September 20th, Google called economists Hal Varian and Paul Milgrom to testify on its behalf. Varian and Milgrom argued that Google's dominance in the online advertising market is beneficial to consumers because it leads to lower prices and higher quality products.On September 21st, the government called economists Carl Shapiro and Fiona Scott Morton to testify on its behalf. Shapiro and Morton argued that Google's dominance in the online advertising market is harmful to consumers because it leads to higher prices and lower quality products.On September 22nd, Google called Sundar Pichai, the company's CEO, to testify on its behalf. Pichai testified that Google's dominance in the online advertising market is the result of "innovation and merit," and that the company does not engage in anticompetitive behavior.The trial is expected to last for several weeks. It is unclear when the jury will begin deliberations.The economists who testified on behalf of Google and the government presented conflicting views on the impact of Google's dominance on the online advertising market. Google's economists argued that Google's dominance is beneficial to consumers, while the government's economists argued that it is harmful.Pichai's testimony was closely watched by both sides, as he is the most senior Google executive to testify in the trial. Pichai's testimony was generally seen as favorable to Google, but the government's lawyers were able to cross-examine him on a number of points.Thanks for listening to the Google on Trial podcast. Please make sure you subscribe and never miss an update.The trial is still in its early stages, and it is unclear how the jury will rule. However, the testimony that has been presented so far suggests that the government has a strong case against Google.

Rebroadcast: For antitrust reformers, the size and power of companies like Google and Facebook represent more than a threat to consumer welfare. It's the final episode in our series “More than money." Matt Stoller, Jack Beatty and Carl Shapiro join Meghna Chakrabarti.

Cosa sta succedendo a Elon Musk? Musk è uno degli imprenditori più geniali e influenti degli ultimi decenni: con la sua azienda spaziale Space X ha avviato praticamente da solo una nuova corsa allo spazio, e con Tesla ha aperto il mercato delle automobili elettriche. Questi risultati hanno contribuito a cambiare il mondo, ma con il tempo la visione di Musk si è appannata, i suoi progetti sono diventati sempre meno a fuoco e il suo mito è sempre più in difficoltà. Poi Musk ha comprato Twitter, e ha mostrato non solo una grande inadeguatezza nella gestione del social network, ma si è avvicinato all'estrema destra americana e ha assunto posizioni complottiste, antivacciniste, controverse. In questa puntata di Globo ne parliamo con Stefano Quintarelli, imprenditore, esperto di tecnologia e uno dei padri di internet in Italia. L'ULTIMO LIBRO DI STEFANO QUINTARELLI –“Capitalismo immateriale” I CONSIGLI DI QUINTARELLI –“Information Rules”, di Carl Shapiro e Hal Varian –Il film “Sesso e potere” –La newsletter “Letters from an American” Globo è un podcast del Post, condotto da Eugenio Cau. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Diana Moss sits down with Carl Shapiro, Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California at Berkeley, to unpack the debate over the role of antitrust and how to invigorate enforcement of the antitrust laws in the United States. In framing the dialog over where antitrust should go, they create a multi-faceted conversation that reveals why competition is a broader and important public policy issue problem for a market-based economy and democratic society. Major themes include the controversy over indicators of declining competition, recent changes to the antitrust ideological spectrum, proposed legislative reforms to the antitrust laws, revisions to the Horizontal Merger Guidelines, and the challenges that face the Biden antitrust chiefs at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division and Federal Trade Commission. These threshold questions have critical implications for the effectiveness of antitrust enforcement moving forward in promoting competition and for protecting consumers and workers.

President Biden signed an executive order promoting competition and large technology firms came under fire. We speak with economists Luigi Zingales and Carl Shapiro on the history and implications of antitrust.

Carl Shapiro is Professor of the Graduate School at the Haas School of Business and the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley. He's also the Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy Emeritus at the Haas School of Business. Carl was a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors during 2011-12. And prior to that, he was Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics at the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, a position he also held during 1995-96. Josh Wright is a university professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, where he's also Executive Director of the Global Antitrust Institute and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Economics. He was a Commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission from 2013 to 2015. We're here to discuss antitrust and competition policy. During the last few years, antitrust has become a very hot topic. Moving from the confines of technical conferences, ABA conferences, economic conferences, to the front pages.

The second in a special 3-part series on antitrust law. Kate and Luigi talk with Lina Khan, author of the article “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox,” and a member of the New Brandeis Movement, which believes that antitrust enforcement should be more broadly applied and not just rely on consumer welfare.

The first in a special 3-part series on antitrust law. In the wake of the approved merger between giants AT&T and Time Warner, Kate and Luigi talk with a leading expert, Carl Shapiro, about the evolving concept of consumer welfare and whether antitrust law needs to change with the times.

Ein Gespräch mit Oliver Beige über dynamische Prozesse in der Mikroökonomik: Über Einfluss, Ideenpropagation und Nachbarschaftseffekte. Oliver Beige und Gudrun Thäter haben sich online über die große gemeinsame Schnittmenge im Musikgeschmack gefunden. Obwohl Oliver in Berlin lebt und Gudrun in Karlsruhe ist es schon vorgekommen, dass sie im gleichen Konzert waren ohne das rechtzeitig zu bemerken, weil sie sich persönlich noch nicht kannten. Im vergangenen Jahr fand Gudrun dann interessante Überlegungen zur aktuellen Anwendbarkeit der Ideen und Modelle von Malthus, die Oliver veröffentlicht hatte. Diese erwiesen sich als spannende Lektüre für die Studierenden der Modellbildungsvorlesung, die Gudrun gerade hielt. Damit war der Plan geboren, dass man sich nicht nur unbedingt einmal persönlich kennenlernen müsste, sondern bei nächster Gelegenheit auch für den Podcast einmal unterhalten sollte. Diese Gelegenheit bot sich im Juli 2017 nach einem Freiluftkonzert in der Kulturbrauerei in Berlin. Oliver ist Ökonom. Er hat 1993 in Karlsruhe sein Diplom in Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen erworben und sich anschließend in den Staaten umgesehen. Dort hat er 1997 einen Master of Business Administration (University of Illinois) abgeschlossen und sich schließlich im Rahmen seiner Promotion an der UC Berkeley mit der mathematischen Modellierung von Ideenpropagation und Entscheidungsprozessen in Netzwerken beschäftigt. Er hat dabei auch zwei Wellen von Innovation im Silicon Valley hautnah miterlebt. Was so einfach und grundlegend klingt ist tatsächlich eine sehr schwierig zu beantwortende Frage: Wie beeinflussen sich Mitglieder in einer Gruppe gegenseitig beim Finden von Entscheidungen? Während Soziologen gerne über gruppendynmische Prozesse diskutieren, arbeiten Ökonomen traditionell unter der vereinfachten Annahme, dass Entscheidungen als unabhängig voneinander getroffen werden - gestützt auf einer rein rationalen, isolierten Nutzenkalkulation. Erst seit Kurzem wird diese Annahme in der Ökonmie durch neue Modelle in Frage gestellt. Was jedoch modellhaft einen Zugang zum dynamischen Entscheidungsprozess in einer Gruppe verschaffen kann - in dem natürlich ganz viel Rückkopplung eingebaut werden muss - sind neuronale Netze - z.B. die Boltzmann-Maschine. Diese hatte Oliver in Karlsruhe kennen- und schätzen gelernt. Sie bilden ein stochastisches Feedback-Netzwerk, in dem man auch untersuchen kann, wie man zu einem Equilibrium kommen kann. Wie läuft denn so eine kollektive Entscheidung ab? Vorab hat jede/r in der Gruppe Präferenz - z.B. für einen bestimmten Film, den er oder sie gern in Begleitung anderer in der Gruppe sehen würde. Darüber wird gesprochen und schließlich teilt sich die Gruppe auf in Untergruppen, die im Kino den gleichen Film sehen. Im Gespräch werden die Präferenzen der anderen jeweils gewichtet in die eigene Entscheidung einfließen. Mathematisch wird das ausgedrückt in einer Nutzenfunktion, deren Wert maximiert wird. In der evolutionären Spieltheorie kann dieses dann als ein stochastischer Prozess modelliert werden, der mittels einer Potentialfunktion die Meinungsbildung der Gruppe als Equilibriumspfad darstellt. Von einem mehr abstrakten Level stellen sich auch die Fragen an ein so gewonnenes Equilibrium: a) Sind die Entscheidungen für die Gruppe die besten? b) Inwieweit beeinflusst die Struktur des sozialen Netzwerkes die Gruppenentscheidung? c) Kann die Gruppendynamik dazu führen, dass einzelne Mitglieder entgegen ihrer Präferenzen entscheiden (und damit das Axiom der offenbarten Präferenzen verletzen)? Zur Darstellung dieser Prozesse wandelte Oliver den traditionellen Entscheidungsbaum unter Ausnutzung der Markow-Eigenschaft in einen Entschediungsgraphen um. Dies war damals ein komplett neuer Ansatz und hat sich auch im großen Maßstab bis heute nicht durchgesetzt. Neu an der Arbeit war auch, dass zum ersten Mal im Zusammenhang der Netzwerkeffekte die Struktur des Netzwerkes betrachtet wurde. In der ursprünglichen Konzeption in der Arbeit von Michael Katz und Carl Shapiro wurde die Heterogenität des Netzwerkes noch explizit ausgeschlossen. Wie wichtig Nachbarschaftseffekte sind, weiß man in der Innovationsökonomik aber schon seit Zvi Griliches die schrittweise Verbreitung des ertragreicheren Hybridmaises in den USA über Mundpropaganda erforscht hatte. Diese Form der Ideenpropagation ist auch ein wichtiger Baustein in Jared Diamonds "Guns, Germs, & Steel" (das den Pulitzerpreis gewann). Großen Einfluss auf Olivers Arbeit haben die Arbeiten des Pioniers der Spieltheorie Thomas Schelling (Nobelpreisträger 2005), der so wichtige Begriffe wie Nachbarschaftseffekte, kritische Masse und das Konzept des Tipping points einführte. Heute setzt Oliver seine Kenntnisse über dynamische Prozesse bei Entscheidungen über Investitionen in Startups, insbesondere im Bereich der verknüpften Mobilität und der Verbreitung neuer Technologien wie z.B. Blockchain, ein. Literatur und weitere Informationen J. Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel. W.W. Norton, 1997. Thomas Schelling, Nobelist and game theory pioneer, 95 . Nachruf, Harvard Gazette 14.12.2016. O. Beige: Resurrecting Malthus and Ricardo Medium, 2016. O. Beige: Essays on Preference and Influence Dissertation an der University of California, Berkeley, 2006. J. H. Conway: Game of life Podcasts P. Stursberg: Social Choice, Gespräch mit G. Thäter im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 129, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2017. V. Caspari: Perfekte Gleichgewichte, Gespräch mit G. Thäter im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 61, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2015. K. Cindric: Kaufverhalten, Gespräch mit G. Thäter im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 45, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2015. S. Ritterbusch: Digitale Währungssysteme, Gespräch mit G. Thäter im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 32, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2014.