Quit Smoking: How Wealth is Built of Metaphysics and Cigarettes
There are many reasons why people struggle to quit smoking, but it almost always concerns a wrong understanding of how they perceive...
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Mikołaj Kuczmarski
- Jun 7
- 5 min
Pay to Live - A Brief Look At The Subscription Economy
Do you own anything? I mean, really own anything? Or do you just rent everything from someone else? That’s the question that haunts me...
Noah Bisinger
- May 19
- 6 min
Order in the Society of the Useless.
How governments can ensure stability in an AI-driven labour market of the future. In 1775, the invention of the steam engine sparked the...
Indigo Hemingway
- May 7
- 5 min
The Two Tales of the Twenty-twenties
There is general acceptance of two modern-day behemoths: looming global recession and the boundless economic potential of artificial...
Carlo Felician Kouwenhoven
- Mar 7
- 4 min
Man vs. Machine: Why Cooperation is the Best Option
The term ‘technological unemployment’ has long been on the horizon. As early as 1930, John Maynard Keynes described this phenomenon as...
Riad Guliyev
- Feb 19
- 5 min
The Caspian Connector
"To follow the Silk Road is to follow a ghost. It flows through the heart of Asia, but it has officially vanished leaving behind the...
Indigo Hemingway
- Jan 15
- 5 min
China, the Economic Introvert
Seemingly perpetual economic growth and China’s status as an international behemoth may be in question as President Xi Jinping shifts...
Riad Guliyev
- Jan 14
- 5 min
Bitter Stalemate In Money Supply
Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, Philip Dybvig (© Nobel Prize Outreach/Niklas Elmehed) In 1661 Johan Palmstruch discovered a Midas touch...
Konstantin van Thiel
- Jan 13
- 5 min
A Dying Breed
Farm workers toil in the fields: Agriculture is no longer what it used to be (Source: Shaina Bombase) The typical image of an idyllic...
Carlo Felician
- Dec 1, 2022
- 4 min
Who’s Really Taking Your Money?
“The Culprits Behind Greedflation” We all know the story of Robin Hood. Steal from the rich and give to the poor. The unprecedented...
Ekin Köseoğlu
- Nov 28, 2022
- 4 min
Terror and Tourism: How does terror hurt the economy?
On June 5, 2015, a rally was taking place in Diyarbakır, a city in Eastern Turkey, when an explosion took place. This was the start of a...
Mikołaj Kuczmarski
- Nov 21, 2022
- 5 min
Turmoil in the Safe Haven
It is height of the 1970s energy crisis. Everyone is panicking over the rising price of oil and soaring inflation. They can feel how each...
Santiago Mengual
- Nov 17, 2022
- 7 min
Perpetual Consumption of our Working Days
I. The mechanization of the processes within the pin factory has proven to surpass human competence in almost every labor-intensive...
Konstantin van Thiel
- Nov 13, 2022
- 6 min
Sailing into Dire Straits
COSCO is one of the largest Chinese state-owned shipping lines (Source: Alf van Beem) Paranoia has swept across Europe. Skyrocketing...
Juan Felipe Gaviria
- Oct 9, 2022
- 7 min
The new left in Colombia: A hard promise to keep
Colombia has a new president. Gustavo Petro, a 62-year-old ex-guerrilla combatant, ex-mayor of Bogotá, ex-senator and now, even to his...
Carlo Felician
- Oct 6, 2022
- 4 min
The Jones Act: A Fish Out of Water?
Alaska… What the American public sardonically labeled “Seward’s icebox” and “Johnson’s polar bear garden” (referring to President Andrew...
Timofey Zhalnin
- Sep 23, 2022
- 5 min
Economic Shocks and Reactions as of Today
The short-term effect on the population and financial markets “We live in a time of paradox and uncertainty. It is a paradox that, in a...
Indigo Hemingway
- Sep 22, 2022
- 5 min
Covid and the Cushion of Riches
Economics is not abstract; it is the most real. Economic policy has the potential to directly impact the livelihoods of millions of...
Meriç Özsüer
- May 9, 2022
- 7 min
The Dream Empire
“Dream Empire”, a documentary set in China between 2012 and 2014, narrates the economic collapse of the Chinese real estate industry and...
Hannah Zhu
- May 1, 2022
- 7 min
The ‘debt-trap diplomacy’ narrative: A look at the other side
The ‘debt trap diplomacy’ narrative has become a defining account of Chinese overseas financing since it was first uttered by the Trump...
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