Economic-History

Provides a cost-benefit analysis of the VOC for the Dutch state, showing a clear lifecycle from economic engine to fiscal liability, culminating in a $120-million-guilder bailout.

Analyzes the VOC and modern tech platforms (Apple, Microsoft) as networked control systems, contrasting physical choke-point monopolies with digital ecosystem lock-in.

Compares the VOC’s structural power to modern corporations like Apple and Saudi Aramco, using GDP-share and systems-control analysis to reveal fundamental differences in how power is exercised.

Examines the popular claim that the VOC was worth $7–8 trillion in modern dollars, why it’s methodologically unsound, and introduces the more defensible GDP-share metric.

How a 16th-century reform movement gave birth to the empire's most powerful and paradoxical machine: its legal system.

Exploring how ancient civilizations developed sophisticated circular economic systems through recycling, reuse, and resource optimization, revealing practices that modern economies are rediscovering.

An investigation into the systemic transformation of climate fluctuations into human holocausts through imperial policy and greed.

Evaluating the long-term impact of colonial extraction, from the 1899 crisis to the systemic erosion of Indian life expectancy.

Modeling the role of British grain traders and Indian moneylenders in facilitating wealth transfer during mass mortality.

Reconstructing the "Temple Wage" experiment and the pseudo-scientific rationing that turned relief camps into death traps.