Development and Inequality
The Nordic Exception: Anatomy of a Resource Triumph
·198 words·1 min
How Norway turned resource wealth into lasting national advantage through institutions, governance, and industrial policy.
Hunger is Man-Made - Part 4: The Global Supermarket: Corporate Control, Debt, and the Toxic Gift of Aid
·1266 words·6 mins
Modern global food systems are controlled by multinational corporations and international financial institutions that prioritize profit over subsistence. Explore how trade, debt, and aid weaponize hunger.
Hunger is Man-Made - Part 3: The Green Trap: How Modernization Concentrated Land and Poverty
·881 words·5 mins
The 'Green Revolution' promised to end hunger through high-yielding seeds and modernization. Instead, it concentrated land and wealth among elites while displacing millions of peasant farmers.
Hunger is Man-Made - Part 2: Engineered Vulnerability: When Famine Becomes an Act of History
·756 words·4 mins
Famines are not inevitable natural disasters—they are engineered by political and economic systems. Explore how colonial cash crops created vulnerability and how societies that prioritize food security avoid famine.
Hunger is Man-Made: The Political Economy of Food Scarcity
·153 words·1 min
Exploring how inequality, colonialism, and corporate control have engineered hunger despite global abundance. A critical examination of why the world's poor starve in a world of plenty.