Behavioral-Economics

A satirical exercise in the tradition of Machiavelli's* The Prince *— examining the mechanics of state capture through the eyes of those who would engineer it.

Exploring the long-term impacts of the opium trade on China and its parallels in modern behavioral economics and digital manipulation.

Explore how human psychology leads to costly financial mistakes, using the centrifugal governor as a metaphor for rational control.

Discover why the endowment effect makes us value our possessions more than they're worth—and how this cognitive bias shapes markets and identity.

How luxury consumption communicates cultural intelligence and moral capital—revealing the hidden rules of the modern status game.

Why 'free' triggers irrational excitement and how the zero-price effect shapes our decision-making in unexpected ways.

Discover how abundance provides 'slack' that enables better decision-making and why the poor often make wiser economic choices.

How perception of resources shapes economic behavior from hunter-gatherers to digital abundance. We are the only species that creates artificial scarcity in an age of abundance.

Discover how scarcity creates powerful focus but dangerous tunnel vision, fundamentally changing how we think and make decisions.

The ethics of nudging explores whether intentional design to improve welfare is acceptable, examining transparency, consent, and the balance between autonomy and beneficial influence.