Trade and Supply Chains

How the very technologies designed to shrink the globe—containers, digital networks, and electronic banking—paradoxically reinforced local and regional economic alliances.

The conventional narrative of a flattened world misses the true story of concentrated commerce and regional power blocs.

Examining the structural patterns of institutional coordination and their implications for understanding power.

Testing the coordination mechanism theory across different historical contexts and religious traditions.

Examining the organizational structures and enforcement mechanisms that enabled religious mobilization for elite objectives.

Examining the economic returns and resource flows generated by crusading for different institutional actors.

A historical exploration of how religious institutions mobilized populations for elite economic interests through the Crusades and beyond.

Exploring how religious institutions solve coordination problems for elite projects.

How the future of global prosperity depends on rewriting the rules to allow every nation a fair climb.

How stringent intellectual property regimes hinder technological catch-up for latecomer nations.