Data As the New Oil: Parallels, Challenges, and Regulatory Implications

Chiara Farronato
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CONFERENCE HELD September 19-20, 2024
Book: The Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence
Book editors: Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb & Catherine Tucker
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
  • Chiara Farronato, The Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence (University of Chicago Press, 2025), chap. 2, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/political-economy-artificial-intelligence/data-new-oil-parallels-challenges-and-regulatory-implications.

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