Human Systems and Behavior

Analyzing the pre-modern social order and the myth of functional estates.

A deep dive into the transition from meritocratic work to inherited wealth as the dominant economic force.

Examining how shifts in progressive taxation and global tax competition accelerated wealth gaps since the 1970s.

Analyzing the capital-income ratio (\(\beta\)) and how low growth resurrects the 19th-century rentier class.

An investigation into the mathematical and systemic drivers of global wealth concentration.

Exploring the central divergence between capital returns and economic growth as the primary engine of inequality.

A viral developer post exposed the raw professional dread around a new AI model—what it means for jobs, skills, and the future of software.

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.

In 2018, Syrian regime officials announced that conditions for refugee return were safe. In the seven years since, fewer than 6% of Syria's 5.4 million registered refugees have gone back. Most of those who tried, re-fled. The gap between 'return' as a policy goal and 'return' as a lived event is the measure of what the displacement economy has actually built.

Zaatari camp in Jordan opened in July 2012. By 2026, it has operated for 14 years, making it Jordan's fourth largest city by population. UNHCR has spent approximately $1.8 billion managing it. Every year of that spending was described, in the documents that authorized it, as an emergency response.