Political Economy
The Pound Sterling Trap: Egypt’s Lost Half-Century
·326 words·2 mins
Explores how Egypt’s status as a wartime creditor to Britain became a mechanism of post-colonial wealth extraction, freezing capital that could have funded industrialization.
The Arithmetic of Empire: How Britain Monetized India
·582 words·3 mins
An analysis of the specific fiscal and monetary mechanisms used to extract wealth from colonial India.
