Analysis of economic systems, incentives, and outcomes as expressions of human behavior over time.
Rent control can reduce rent growth for protected tenants. But does it increase housing costs over time? A mechanism-based look at evidence from NYC, San Francisco, and Stockholm.
Capitalism is not failing because it is inefficient. It is succeeding at efficiently exploiting human irrationality. What if much of what we “want” was never discovered by markets, but carefully manufactured by them?
Every assistance program is built with good intentions. Not every one produces good outcomes. A structural look at what happens when helping hurts.
Venezuela’s collapse is often framed as a moral tragedy or a warning about foreign involvement. In reality, it is an economic case study in how a wealthy nation was dismantled—and how it could be rebuilt.
Economic systems do not fail because people lack good intentions, they fail because of false assumptions about human behavior. This essay explores why systems that align incentives with real human nature endure.
