What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Data Economy’

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Updated 14 July 2024
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Data Economy’

Authors: ISAAC BALEY AND LAURA VELDKAMP

The most valuable firms in the global economy are valued largely for their data. Amazon, Apple, Google, and others have proven the competitive advantage of a good data set.

And yet despite the growing importance of data as a strategic asset, modern economic theory neglects its role. In this book, Isaac Baley and Laura Veldkamp draw on a range of theoretical frameworks at the research frontier in macroeconomics and finance.

 


What We Are Reading Today: ‘An Introduction to String Algorithms’ by Carl Kingsford

Updated 25 January 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘An Introduction to String Algorithms’ by Carl Kingsford

String algorithms make it possible to process, store, and manipulate text with computational efficiency, with applications ranging from search engines and social networks that regularly process terabytes of information to areas like genomics, where the genome of an organism can be encoded as a long string of letters.

This book provides an incisive introduction to the concepts and applications that every practitioner in the field needs to know.

It guides readers from the fundamentals of string processing to advanced computational methods.