What IKEA and Spotify Won't Tell You About the Swedish Dream
·1497 words·8 mins
Beyond IKEA and ABBA: 5 Surprising Truths Hidden Inside the Swedish Model
Economy
The Great Enclosure - Part 2: The Tollbooth Economy and the Loneliness Epidemic
·662 words·4 mins
Examining how privatization creates tollbooth economies and leads to social isolation.
The Great Enclosure: How Neoliberalism Turned Citizens into Consumers
·304 words·2 mins
A systemic X-ray of neoliberalism, turning citizens into consumers, a tollbooth economy extracting rent from essentials, and shifting blame onto individuals. The fix, a restoration story built on cooperation, commons, and participatory democracy.
The Great Enclosure - Part 1: The Blank Slate and the Birth of the Consumer
·690 words·4 mins
Exploring the origins of neoliberalism from the Madeira deforestation to the 1938 Paris conference.
The Unnatural Economy: Biomimicry as a Path to Sustainable Innovation
·340 words·2 mins
Humanity's industrial paradigm is failing. This series explores how biomimicry—learning from nature's 3.8 billion years of R&D—offers a path to sustainable innovation and economic transformation.
The Unnatural Economy - Part 1: The One Percent Solution: Why 3.8 Billion Years of R&D Matters
·1456 words·7 mins
Most young ladies sunning by the pool aren't thinking about a hippopotamus, but its perspiration reveals nature's superior engineering. This post explores why 3.8 billion years of natural R&D matters for human innovation.
Capitalism Unmasked - Part 23: Finance - Economy's Brain or Parasite?
·874 words·5 mins
Final reckoning with the financial sector - is it serving the real economy or feeding off it?