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The Full Stack of Society: Can You Make A Whole Society Wealthier? [Full Version]
an essay-length exploration of the viable modes of bootstrapping a national economy
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Inside My First Bank Run: Zombie Banks and Magic Money
Why Banks Always Explode And What To Do About it. Half-retrospective & half-critical analysis of modern banking, this essay explores what it was like to…
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Japan’s Housing Crisis: What The YIMBYs Don’t Understand
What Really Drives Housing Prices — And Why Japan’s Haven’t Increased Since 1995!
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Book Review: Discourses on Livy, Part II
expansion, growth, & leadership
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A Podcast & A New Platform
a very rare non-essay update for July 4th
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Book Review: Discourses on Livy, Part I
Rehabilitating Machiavelli Imagine you’re an intellectual who lives and works in close proximity to your society’s elite. Imagine that your studies of…
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American Zaibatsu: Macroeconomics for Tech Employees
How great nations are built on the backs of great companies — and what you can do about it Note: don’t start reading this one on your lunch break unless…
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Video Games & Professional Society: What Older Generations Don’t Understand About Gaming
Why You Should Play Games To Excess This week[0], Xi Jinping’s government announced it was banning videogames — the latest salvo in a slew of attacks…
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