Consumer Psychology

A four-part investigation into the cognitive and social architectures that engineer consumer behavior and capital flow.

Al-Jahiz's 9th-century treatise on trade reveals a world where merchants verified authenticity through taste, touch, and smell — a forensic economy that predates modern supply chains by a millennium.

Exploring the legal and governance challenges surrounding data ownership in connected cars.

Examining the monetization of driving data through insurance premiums and targeted advertising.

Exploring the privacy and data implications of connected cars in the modern world.

Exploring the shift from private sanctum to data-harvesting machine in connected cars.

Exploring the long-term impacts of the opium trade on China and its parallels in modern behavioral economics and digital manipulation.

Analyzing how the opium trade led to economic collapse and the Opium Wars, forcing China into unfavorable treaties.

Examining how British opium trade was used as a weapon to manipulate Qing China's economy and society through addiction.

A historical exploration of how parasitic mechanisms in biology mirror geopolitical strategies of engineering despair through addiction and economic manipulation.