Silicon Continent

How Brussels writes so many laws

Explaining Europe’s extraordinary legal productivity

Dec 4 • 

Luis Garicano

78

20

15

November 2025

Politics without trade-offs

A new paper with Adam Brzezinski

Nov 28 • 

Luis Garicano

33

7

7

What a toad tells us about Europe’s housing problems

The commission can make it easier to build

Nov 14 • 

Pieter Garicano

69

7

11

The Constitution of Innovation

A New European Renaissance

Nov 10 • 

Luis Garicano

117

18

34

October 2025

The failure of Macron

The supply-side reforms that weren't

Oct 13 • 

Luis Garicano

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Pieter Garicano

106

4

22

Designed for Weakness

The European Commission’s leadership problem

Oct 2 • 

Luis Garicano

61

7

11

September 2025

Why is the AI Act so hard to kill?

Some insight into how the sausage is made

Sep 24 • 

Luis Garicano

53

5

5

August 2025

R without G

Good news on AI could be bad news for Europe's debt problems

Aug 28 • 

Luis Garicano

30

3

5

European nuclear could be cheap

A UK taskforce shows how to cut cost without touching safety

Aug 20 • 

Luis Garicano

47

10

9

The surrender in Turnberry

11 thoughts on the EU-US trade deal

Aug 2 • 

Luis Garicano

85

18

20

July 2025

The AI Becker problem

Who will train the next generation?

Jul 23 • 

Luis Garicano

60

11

16

Learning to love Baumol

As people get richer they spend more time in Europe

Jul 17 • 

Pieter Garicano

42

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