Policy and Critique

Exploring exchange as a mechanism of power in symmetric conflicts.

Exploring the three mechanisms of social power: deception, exchange, and coercion.

Exploring deception as a foundational mechanism of social power.

Proposing a restoration story to reclaim democracy from neoliberalism.

Examining how privatization creates tollbooth economies and leads to social isolation.

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.

Exploring the origins of neoliberalism from the Madeira deforestation to the 1938 Paris conference.

Investigating how honorific waste and spiteful consumption undermine economic utility and efficiency in modern society.

Examining the biological basis of status competition and how it creates a treadmill of perpetual dissatisfaction in consumer behavior.

A series exploring how corporate exploitation of envy drives perpetual consumer demand through status competition and psychological manipulation.