Linkfest: June 07, 2018

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What I am reading today

Digital Personhood? The Status of Autonomous Software Agents in Private Law (Oxford Business Law Blog blog)
Revolut announces a Robinhood-like trading product (TechCrunch: Fintech)


What to expect at the G-7 summit (Brookings: Economics)
Master the Challenges of Multichannel Pricing (MIT Sloan Management Review)
Let's hope for a better, demerged, RBS when it's back in private hands (Martin vander Weyer)
Let's hope for a better, demerged, RBS when it's back in private hands (Spectator: Martin Vander Weyer)
Feynman's Hack and the Map of the Cat (Safal Niveshak)
The next policy move may turn out to be another hike (Mint)
a16z Podcast: The Hard Things about Security (Andreessen Horowitz)
The limits of HDI: imagining a more inclusive measure for development in India (India at LSE)

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