Essays on markets, monetary systems, inequality, and economic thought — written for the curious, not the credentialled.
We've spent two decades building platforms that monetise human attention. This essay asks whether the structural logic of that economy can ever be reformed from within.
Read essay →Rental income, dividends, capital gains — the forms of wealth that don't require labour are growing. What does this mean for social contracts built on the premise that reward follows effort?
Read essay →Consumer price indices are political objects as much as economic ones. This piece asks who gets counted in the basket and who doesn't — and why it matters enormously for policy.
Read essay →The Dutch tulip bubble of 1637 is economic folklore — but most of what we 'know' about it is wrong. A deep dive into historical revisionism and what it tells us about financial crises.
Read essay →Index funds have captured trillions in assets and are reshaping markets in ways their inventors never anticipated. A look at passive investing's structural effects on price discovery.
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