I write where curiosity leads me - and that's usually to economics and governance. This site is where I share my writing, book, and ongoing projects.
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Epistemic status: hand waving but confidant. I was thinking about reflective reasoning and "strange loops through the meta level" and it led me to this intuition that even if you have to make some assumptions to support ...
Read more...Alex Tabarok suggests improving crowdfunding by letting fundraisers offer a bonus as compensation for anyone that gets a refund if the project fails. By doing that the fundraiser solves the coordination problem making no...
Read more...From 1865 to 1909, Belgium was ruled by a great king. He helped promote the adoption of universal male suffrage and proportional-representation voting. During his rule Belgium rapidly industrialized and had immense econo...
Read more...Western civilization is founded on the idea that due to our inherently limited capacities, we lack the right to coerce others and therefore have a right to equal Liberty, from which springs our tradition of Human Rights, Democracy, Free Discourse, and Free Markets. This idea is called Liberalism, and Liberalism is in peril.
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