Will Rinehart

My name is William Rinehart, but you can call me Will. I’m a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity (CGO) at Utah State University, but I'm based in Washington D.C. I specialize in the public policy of technology and innovation, a broad portfolio that includes regulation of telecom, Big Tech, competition, content, and innovation. Fundamentally, I am interested in expanding human flourishing, learning, and reforming institutions.

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Lately I've been researching excessive veto power, the value of time and discounting, technological atonement, when an online community migrates, the Millennial wealth gap, short-termism, the rural broadband penalty, COVID-19 and the relocalization of politics, the Spence distortion, and that Noam Chomsky signed the Harper’s Magazine letter.
My research page is designed as a digital garden, a place for ideas to grow and be harvested. I maintain a commonplace, a set of research resources including stats reviews, R libraries, etc. All of my website tags are here. Here is a complete list of datasets. I have strong confidence about these political, philosophic, and economic statements, and I'm drafting lit reviews on social media research, philosophy of technology, and theorems of cognition, technology, and the social.
As always, thanks for taking a look!