International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE)

A law-and-economics think tank whose November 2025 white paper "From Moore's Law to Market Rivalry" (Brian C. Albrecht, Geoffrey A. Manne, David J. Teece, Mario Zúñiga) is a recurring source in the vault's compute-economics thread — first for its Rock's-Law fab- and scanner-cost figures (claim-rocks-law-is-moores-laws-economic-inverse), and then as the primary document at the center of the metaphor-vs-formalism question about semiconductor rivalry and the Red Queen. Its analytical framing of "competition for the market" draws on industrial-organization economics (Schumpeter, Evans & Schmalensee) and on co-author Teece's dynamic-capabilities theory, not on evolutionary biology. As an advocacy-oriented think tank writing on its own venue, it is treated as Tier 1 for what the paper itself argues and Tier 2 for the secondhand economic and cost data it relays — a source worth tracking by name for exactly that reason.

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• claim-rocks-law-is-moores-laws-economic-inverse
• claim-icle-invokes-red-queen-as-carroll-metaphor-not-van-valen-formalism · claim-icle-grounds-competition-for-the-market-in-industrial-organization-economics · observation-no-formal-test-maps-semiconductor-node-races-onto-van-valens-constant-hazard
• Question: question-does-competition-for-the-market-map-onto-red-queen-extinction-probability