Interviews
Your Attention, Spent
A philosopher who builds mathematical models of human behaviour maps the attention economy through three character types.
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When Votes Don't Matter
An Icelandic economist ties the stalled rollout of a constitution backed by two-thirds of voters fourteen years ago to the resource curse playing out inside a wealthy democracy.
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What States and Deeds Can’t Do
An Egyptian political economist explains how Middle Eastern states manage to be authoritarian and weak at once, and argues that formal title to informal property won't fix it.
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What We “Shouldn't” Love
A philosopher on why patriotism feels good but falls apart once you try to defend it logically.
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A Country-less Currency, and a Country Drowning in Its Currency
Why the dollar prices trade between other countries, and how demand for the Swiss franc left Switzerland's central bank holding one of the world's largest balance sheets.
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What AI Doesn't Destroy
AI is wiping out some job tasks and leaving others alone, and the ones left standing are becoming more valuable.
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Universal Capital, Not Income
A Greek MP argues basic income won't be enough once AI displaces labour, proposing housing, dividend-paying capital, and a personal AI agent for everyone instead.
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Economic Models Can’t Vote
What an economic model tells a government to do and what that government can get away with before an election are often two different things.
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Built to Fail
Lebanon's power-sharing system, designed to stop any one sect from dominating, has made the country nearly impossible to govern or reform.
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From Oil Rigs to Climate Tech
An engineer who once built offshore drilling rigs now runs a platform that connects Korean and Southeast Asian green-tech firms, and explains why the partnership works.
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