Political Economy

Military spending looks like a black hole for taxpayer money. But economic analysis of the Swedish Gripen jet reveals a counter-intuitive truth: the civilian spillovers were so valuable they paid for the entire program – and then some.

Examines how digital platforms follow a predictable three-stage decay lifecycle from user-centric value creation to shareholder extraction, using Google's internal DOJ memos as the primary evidentiary case.

A two-part forensic analysis of enshittification — the structural decay of digital platforms — tracing its mechanism, its institutional enablers, and the legal scaffolding that makes perpetual extraction possible.

Examines how digital platforms follow a predictable three-stage decay lifecycle from user-centric value creation to shareholder extraction, using Google's internal DOJ memos as the primary evidentiary case.

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.

An investigation into the systemic transformation of climate fluctuations into human holocausts through imperial policy and greed.

An analysis of the specific fiscal and monetary mechanisms used to extract wealth from colonial India.

This series traces how economies absorb, adapt, and evolve through 'development blocks' where technologies and logistics create new worlds, but policy shapes their direction and social impact.

Analyzing the long-term consequences of the gasoline tax pact, including urban sprawl, systemic fragility, and the challenges of rebuilding transit in an auto-dependent landscape.

Examining the systematic dismantling of streetcar networks by National City Lines, backed by GM and oil companies, and the criminal conspiracy that replaced electric transit with buses.