Theme archive
Musings on Economy and Capitalism
Markets, capitalism, growth, inequality, money, labour, value, and the economic stories shaping public life.
Architecture of Enmity
A coach in a gymnasium in Lima tells a squad of eleven-year-old girls, minutes before a regional match, that the team on the other side of the net are their enemies for the next ninety minutes.
The Forest Does Not Fall At Once
The woman who grills chicken over charcoal at the mouth of my soi has raised her prices twice since the second week of July.
Sophisticated State Failure
How the West learned to Decay Without Falling
Noisy Activists
The Pilbara runs on diesel the rest of Australia pays for. The mining lobby would rather you didn't say so.
The Pause That Passes For Peace
Why Military Force is Never Sufficient
Using Capital Wisely
The changing nature of capital and its use
Industrial Economism – The Pathology & Its Cure
A Death Wish with a Business Plan
The War That Cannot End
On the Productive Machinery of Permanent Conflict
Monsoon Before The Storm
The Gathering Pressures of a Multipolar World
The Cost of an Unfiltered Woman
A friend of mine posted something on LinkedIn this morning that I could not put down.
What The Text Does Not Say
In defence of authenticity in authorship
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