The Uninsurable Future – Part 2: Policy Paralysis: Deregulation, Debt, and the Failure of State Insurance Backstops
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The Stark Choice Between Deregulation and Debt #
Development and Inequality
The Uninsurable Future: Climate Risk and the Collapse of Property Insurance
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How the climate change is affecting property insurance markets, leading to soaring premiums and widespread nonrenewals.
The Uninsurable Future – Part 1: Mapping the Climate-Driven Crisis Through Soaring Premiums and Nonrenewal Rates
·891 words·5 mins
The Canary in the Coal Mine Sings of Climate Risk #
The Fighter Jet and the State - Part 3: Who Really Benefits?
·875 words·5 mins
Analyzing the welfare economics of defense programs, questioning whether systems like the F-35 serve public interests or concentrated private benefits.
The Fighter Jet and the State - Part 2: The Sovereignty Trade-Off
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Examining how advanced weapons systems like the F-35 create embedded dependencies that trade strategic flexibility for perceived security, while sovereign alternatives preserve autonomy.
The Bitter Harvest - Part 2: The Logic of Survival through Repression
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How the collapse of the coffee economy forced the Rwandan regime to substitute incentives with systemic repression.
The Fighter Jet and the State: A Tale of Two Systems
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A critical analysis of how defense procurement decisions reveal deeper theories of state value, sovereignty, and economic welfare through the lens of two contrasting fighter jet programs.
The Bitter Harvest: Coffee, Power, and the Rwandan Catastrophe
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A two-part series on the political economy of coffee in Rwanda and how its collapse contributed to the 1994 genocide.
The Fighter Jet and the State - Part 1: The Cost-Benefit Illusion
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Exploring how the choice between fighter jets like Gripen and F-35 reveals a state's theory of value in defense spending, from sovereign infrastructure to industrial policy.