During the dot-com boom of the 1990s, Shane Greenstein routinely met entrepreneurs who believed that economic forces did not apply to their precious Internet startups. As an economist, this bugged the ...

In August, a TikTok video of a 7-year-old named Tariq whisked me back to 2013 when being online was actually fun. For a moment, the internet felt warm and sweet. "Corn Kid" was a TikTok hit, the viral ...