Tag: political economy
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The History of Price Controls from Rome to Weimar
Price controls have been deployed by governments across four thousand years of recorded history, and the pattern of their failure is remarkably consistent. This article examines the economic mechanics and historical record of price ceilings from Diocletian's Rome to World War I rent control, revealing what works and what never does.
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The Regulatory Vacuum and Who Benefits From It
AI election regulation has failed not through incompetence but by design. Who benefits from the regulatory vacuum in 2026, and how the political economy sustains it.
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The Economics of AI Political Persuasion
Collapsing costs of AI political persuasion have democratized influence operations. Who benefits when manufacturing political reality gets cheap? Not voters.
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The Economics of Famine in Historical Perspective
An analytical history of famine as an economic and political phenomenon, drawing on Amartya Sen's entitlement theory to reinterpret the Irish Famine, the Bengal Famine of 1943, and the Chinese Great Leap Forward as crises of distribution and power rather than agricultural failure. Examines why democratic accountability changes famine outcomes.
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The Political Economy of Open Source AI: Who Benefits and Why
Meta open sourced Llama to commoditize OpenAI and Google's competitive advantage, not from principle. The strategic logic of open source AI, examined without sentiment.
