The Algebra of Accumulation: Part 1 – The Inexorable Logic of r > g
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Exploring the central divergence between capital returns and economic growth as the primary engine of inequality.
Policy and Critique
From Milkman to Landfill: How Convenience Killed the True Circular Economy
·1367 words·7 mins
Exploring how the milkman model of reusable bottles compares environmentally to modern packaging, revealing the complexities of true circular systems.
The Circular Mirage: When Sustainability Recycles Problems, Not Solutions
·1609 words·8 mins
Exploring the inconvenient truths of the circular economy, from thermodynamic limits to systemic barriers, and how to build a more realistic and just system.
Do As I Say, Not As We Did: The Secret Economic History of Rich Nations
·1748 words·9 mins
An exploration of how today's rich nations built their wealth using policies they now deny to developing countries, revealing the tale of two histories.
The Debt Architecture – Part 5: The Architecture of Escape
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Uganda reduced its debt-to-GDP ratio from 96% to 28% after HIPC completion and has kept it there for twenty years. Botswana has never been in debt distress despite being a resource economy. Ecuador's 2023 Galápagos debt-for-nature swap saved $390 million in interest payments while funding marine conservation. The countries that escaped the debt architecture share five characteristics. None of them is luck.