Lifecycle Economics & Industrial Power

A three-part forensic series introducing the Displacement-Adjusted Job Count (DAJC) metric to demonstrate that EV transition investment announcements systematically overcount job creation by excluding the drivetrain supply chain displacement they create.

Examines the gap between collective bargaining agreements and the economic geography of EV supply chains, and the structural limits of just transition frameworks in protecting workers outside direct OEM employment.

Applies the DAJC formula to four documented EV transition cases to produce the net job displacement figure that investment announcements systematically omit.

Introduces the Drivetrain Labour Intensity Ratio and constructs the DAJC formula by tracing the labour content of ICE and EV drivetrains through the tiered supply chain.

A three-part forensic series introducing the Mobility Premium Burden metric to expose how mandatory auto insurance functions as a regressive mobility tax whose incidence falls heaviest on the populations with the fewest alternatives.

Maps the insurance industry's retreat from climate-exposed geographies and traces how the resulting gap between insured mobility cost and total mobility risk creates new forms of car-dependent financial vulnerability.

Dissects the territorial rating, credit-scoring, and telematics-based pricing systems that determine automotive insurance premiums, tracing how each mechanism systematically disadvantages low-income, minority, and rural households.

Introduces the Mobility Premium Burden metric and applies it across income quintiles and geographies to demonstrate that the same dollar premium imposes categorically different burdens depending on household mobility alternatives.

A three-part forensic series introducing the Road Subsidy Multiplier to quantify how every dollar of highway expansion generates more than one dollar in future public obligation — revealing the compound fiscal trap that standard infrastructure cost-benefit analysis is designed not to calculate.

Examines the political economy of highway investment persistence, the cost of retrofitting car-centric design, and the RSM-adjusted comparison between road and transit as competing infrastructure investment strategies.