Other Writing

News Media

• Birch, K. (2024) The end of the generative artificial-intelligence bubble, The Globe and Mail – Report on Business (5 Aug).
• Birch, K. (2024) CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage is what happens when software becomes a subscription, The Globe and Mail – Report on Business (19 Jul).
• Birch, K. (2024) Beware the rise of the super-app that does everything, The Globe and Mail – Report on Business (14 Jul).
• Birch, K. (2024) Generative artificial intelligence is simply a waste of our time and money, The Globe and Mail – Report on Business (4 Apr).
• Birch, K. (2024) Canada needs a sovereign wealth fund – built by monetizing our personal data, The Globe and Mail – Report on Business (22 Mar).
• Birch, K. (2023) Failure to regulate artificial intelligence will entrench Big Tech’s power over us, The Globe and Mail – Report on Business (30 Apr).
• Birch, K. (2023) Yet another subscription fee: Twitter, Facebook, Netflix are desperate and dying, The Globe and Mail – Report on Business (10 Apr).
• Birch, K. and Adediji, A. (2023) Safeguarding personal data should be key to competition reform, Centre for International Governance Innovation (16 Mar).
• Birch, K. (2023) Netflix’s desperate crackdown on password sharing shows it might fail like Blockbuster, The Globe and Mail – Report on Business (14 Feb).
• Birch, K. (2023) Canada has an opportunity to become more competitive and innovative, National Post (27 Jan).
• Birch, K. (2022) Digital charter bill will do little to protect Canadians’ personal data, National Post (20 Jun).
• Birch, K. (2022) The Online News Act doesn’t solve the news media’s reliance on Big Tech, Policy Options (26 May).
• Birch, K. (2022) Competition is important — in the digital sphere and in the debate over competition policy, National Post (11 Apr).
• Birch, K. (2022) Big Tech, little oversight, Policy Options (23 Feb).
• Birch, K. (2022) The assetization of social life, Bot Populi (19 Jan).
• Birch, K. (2022) Opinion: We need to get beyond the status quo in regulating Big Tech in Canada, National Post (10th January).
• Birch, K. (2021) Opinion: Big Tech poses challenges our outdated competition laws were not designed to address, National Post (29th November).
• Birch, K. (2021) Opinion: This is how we could tame Big Tech, Toronto Star (16th June).
• Birch, K. (2020) Opinion: Ottawa’s post-hoc privacy plan still leaves the power with Big Tech, The Globe & Mail – Report on Business (19th November).
• Birch, K. (2020) Opinion: This is how Canada should deal with Big Tech, Toronto Star (13th October).
• Birch, K. (2020) Opinion: What can Canada learn from the US Congressional hearing on Big Tech monopolies?, Toronto Star (10th August).
• Birch, K. (2020) Opinion: Artificial intelligence doesn’t need ‘agile’ governance, it needs firm regulation, Toronto Star (13th January).
• Birch, K. (2020) The big problem with housing affordability? Real estate is still a valuable asset, The Globe & Mail – Report on Business (1st January).
• Birch, K. (2019) Canada has taken a perilous road to an asset-based economy, The Globe & Mail – Report on Business (22nd September).
• Birch, K. (2019) Intellectual property might not be the best way to drive Canada’s future economy, The Globe & Mail – Report on Business (4th August).
• Birch K. (2019) Five reasons Canada’s Digital Charter will be a bust before it even gets going, The Globe & Mail – Report on Business (24th May).
• Birch K. (2018) We must consider what can happen if our personal data become a private asset, The Globe & Mail – Report on Business (26th November).
• Birch, K. (2015) Ponzi property: The neoliberal delusion of homeownership, ROAR Magazine (22nd March).
• Birch, K. (2012) Manifesto for a doomed youth: The return to serfdom, Canadian Dimensions website (17th September).

Other Writing

• Birch, K. (forthcoming) Data wealth fund, Data Governance Essay Series, Waterloo: Centre for International Governance Innovation.
• Komljenovic, J., Hansen, M., Sellar, S. and Birch, K. (2024) Edtech in Higher Education: Empirical Findings from the Project ‘Universities and Unicorns – Building Digital Assets in the Higher Education Industry’, Oxford: Centre for Global Higher Education.
• Komljenovic, J. and Birch, K. (2023) Data assets and the future governance of higher education, Global Challenges Issue.14, Geneva Graduate Institute (Nov).
• Birch, K. (2023) There are no markets anymore: From neoliberalism to Big Tech, State of Power 2023 Report, The Transnational Institute (3 Feb).
• Birch, K. (2022) Where do unicorns come from? Reflexive expectations in innovation financing, economicsociology.org (17 Nov).
• Birch, K. (2022) EdTech’s precarious futures: are there material limits to data-driven higher education?, Northern Research Review and Advisory Group (NORRAG) Blog (15 Nov).
• Kaltenbrunner, W., Birch, K., van Leeuwen, T. and Amuchastegui, M. (2022) How does journal standardization impact intellectual creativity?, Social Science Space (2 Nov).
• Birch, K., Cochrane, D.T. and Ward, C. (2021) What kind of asset is our personal data?, The FinReg Blog, School of Law, Duke University (15th June).
• Birch, K. (2021) We need to change the faculty hiring process, University Affairs (6 April).
• Birch, K. (2020) On data rentiership in ‘Big Tech’: Why Silicon Valley might not be the innovation model we’re looking for, Discover Society (8th January).
• Birch, K. (2019) Personal data isn’t the ‘new oil’, it’s a way to manipulate capitalism, The Conversation (5th November).
• Birch, K. (2017) What exactly is neoliberalism?, The Conversation (2nd November)
• Birch, K. (2017) From Entrepreneurship to Rentiership in Technoscientific Capitalism, Department of Business & Politics Blog, Copenhagen Business School (16th August).
• Birch, K. (2016) How to think like a neoliberal: Can every decision and choice really be conceived as a market decision?, LSE Impact Blog (29th January) [reposting of Discover Society piece].
• Birch, K. (2015) How to think like a neoliberal, Discover Society 22 (1st July).
• Birch, K. (2015)  Critical dialogue – Response to Brett Christophers’ “Monopolizing Neoliberalism Away”, Antipode Foundation website (7th April).
• Birch, K. and Tyfield, D. (2015) Theoretische Überlegungen zur Bioökonomie: Biowert, Biokapital – oder was sonst?, PROKLA 178(1) [Reprint in German].
• Birch, K. (2015) Origin Stories of the Corporation…and the State [Review of Corporate Sovereignty by Joshua Barkan], Antipode Foundation website (February).
• Birch, K. (2014) What happened to the Lisbon Agenda?, SPERI Comment: The Political Economy Blog (8th April).
• Birch, K. (2014) The Lisbon Agenda: Financialising Europe’s economy, New Left Project website (5th March).
• Birch, K. (2012) It’s not just the 1%, New Left Project website (23rd November).
• The SIGJ2 Writing Collective (2012) “Tim-adical” action: A reply to Culum Canally, Antipode Foundation website (8th November).
• Birch, K. (2012) Intervention – We have never been neoliberal, Antipode Foundation website (15th May) [Slightly revised reprint].
• Birch, K. (2012) Intervention – The brutal lives of others: Exploitation in the academy, Antipode Foundation website (4th May).
• Birch, K. (2012) We have never been neoliberal, New Left Project website (19th April).
• Birch, K. (2010) The end of the Green New Deal? We simply don’t have time for this austerity, Zed Books Blog (1st October).
• Birch, K. (2007) Die neoliberale Untermauerung der Bioökonomie: Ideologische Diskurse und Praktiken der ökonomischen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit, Gen-ethischer Informationsdienst, Special Supplement No. 7 (Dec 2007): 19-29 [Abridged reprint in German].

Reports

• Birch, K., Braun-Jackson, J., de Robertis, M., Heron, C., Khayatt, D. and Wellen, R. (2015) Report: Taskforce on a Strategic Vision for York University, York University Faculty Association.
• Birch, K. and Wudrich, D. (2013) Climate change, sustainable infrastructure and the challenge facing engineers, Engineering Dimensions (Sept/Oct): 46-48.
• Cumbers, A. and Birch, K. (2006) Adding Value: Public Sector Spending and Scotland’s Economic Development, Glasgow: Report for UNISON Scotland.