Theme archive
Musings on Economy and Capitalism
Markets, capitalism, growth, inequality, money, labour, value, and the economic stories shaping public life.
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
Food: The Operating System Of A Dying World
I have spent much of my life staring at the dashboard of a civilisation that thinks it’s steering, while in reality its strapped to the front of a runaway helter-skelter, applauding its own acceleration.
Anxiety In The Western Mind
Distrust and the Machinery of an Exhausted Civilisation
When the Witness Stops Watching
The Fourth Estate and the Betrayal of Its Own Covenant
Authentic Until Further Notice
How the attention economy converts sincerity into spectacle
The Dissolution of Political Gravitas
The Portal Between Obsolete Containers and the Ecority Paradigm
The Gas Nobody Noticed
The Chokepoint Nobody Watched - Until Now
The Unholy Alliance
Navigating the Illusion of Choice in an Oligarchic Age
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