Essays | Conrad Bastable

Forsaking Industrialism: The Most Expensive Thing You Didn’t Buy

Monetization & Monopolies: How The Internet You Loved Died

Escalation Theory: Compliance, Violence, and Overachievement In Society

Inside My First Bank Run: Zombie Banks and Magic Money

Japan’s Housing Crisis: What The YIMBYs Don’t Understand

Book Review: Discourses on Livy, Part II

Book Review: Discourses on Livy, Part I

American Zaibatsu: Macroeconomics for Tech Employees

Video Games & Professional Society: What Older Generations Don’t Understand About Gaming

Elite Underproduction: Why We Can’t Solve Hard Problems Anymore

Ouroboros Theory: Describing The Nature of Right vs. Left

Unequal Growth: The Zero-Sum Games You Don’t See

China’s Trillion-Dollar Tech War: When To Defend A Monopoly

The Germany Shock: The Largest Economy Nobody Understands

Steelmanning Free Speech: An Argument for Unfettered Content

Steelmanning Censorship: An Argument for the Removal of Content

The Full Stack of Society: Can You Make A Whole Society Wealthier? [RECAPS ONLY]

The Full Stack of Society: Can You Make A Whole Society Wealthier? [Full Version]

The Full Stack of Society: Can You Make A Whole Society Wealthier?

Mercantilism: A New Path To Wealth Through Imperfect Competition