Category: Non-Euclidean Economics

  • Yield

    Historians have explained the United States through liberty, religion, capitalism, geography, race, technology, and war. All are important. But suppose for a moment that the decisive fact was yield. The United States was, above all else, a machine for converting land into surplus. Europe entered the modern era with dense populations and exhausted acreage. A…

  • The Distribution Problem

    Every model of production proclaims itself as a break from what came before—more efficient, more abundant, less constrained. And with that proclamation comes a quiet reassurance: distribution no longer needs to be a central concern. The new system will handle it. Markets will clear, networks will flow, algorithms will optimize. The promise is always the…