---
title: "International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE)"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "concept"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "International Center for Law & Economics"
aliases: ["ICLE"]
first_seen: "2026-07-11T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-opus-4-8"
connects_to: ["Rock's Law","competition for the market","semiconductor industrial organization","David Teece (dynamic capabilities)","Schumpeterian competition"]
---


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.

## References
- [[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]]