Concept
Post-Scarcity Economics
How pricing, labor, and ownership shift when marginal costs approach zero.
How pricing, labor, and ownership reorganize when marginal costs approach zero for essential goods.
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economics
12 articles tagged “economics”.
Concept
Near-Zero Marginal Cost
The threshold condition and its historical parallels.
The threshold condition under which post-scarcity dynamics begin to apply, and its historical parallels.
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History
Resource Scarcity and War
The historical thread from grain and oil to rare earths and fresh water.
A survey of how competition over scarce material inputs has driven interstate conflict, and how abundance reframes the underlying logic.
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Concept
Peace Dividend
When the material rationale for conquest weakens, what happens to the war budget?
The economic argument that abundance weakens the material rationale for conquest, together with the structural critiques of that view.
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Theory
Guns vs Butter
The classic tradeoff and what happens when the marginal costs of both collapse.
The classic production-possibilities tradeoff between military and civilian goods, reframed for a near-zero-marginal-cost economy.
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History
Rare Earth Geopolitics
Lithium, cobalt, neodymium, gallium — the supply chains that replace oil as conflict surfaces.
The mineral chokepoints of the electrified economy, their role as conflict surfaces, and how atoms abundance could defuse or displace them.
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History
Energy Wars
From Gulf tankers to European pipelines — and why distributed solar changes the map.
How control of energy production and transit has shaped conflict, and how distributed solar-plus-storage alters the strategic map.
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Doctrine
Military-Industrial Complex
Eisenhower's warning and how abundance-era production reshapes procurement lock-in.
Eisenhower's warning and the institutional lock-in of wartime procurement, reshaped but not dissolved by abundance-era production.
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Theory
Broken Window Fallacy
Why war is not economic stimulus, and why the abundance-era opportunity cost is larger than ever.
Bastiat's parable of the broken window applied to war-as-stimulus, and why abundance makes the opportunity cost of destruction larger than ever.
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Theory
Kardashev and Conflict
Does climbing the energy ladder correlate with leaving violence behind?
Whether civilizational energy tiers correlate with reduced violence, examining Pinker's long-peace thesis and its serious counterarguments.
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Concept
Disarmament Economics
Decommissioning stockpiles and redirecting defense spending toward abundance.
The political economy of converting defense spending and stockpiles into abundance infrastructure — historical precedents, structural obstacles, and the peace-dividend debate.
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Pillar
Energy Abundance
Why the solar-plus-storage learning curve matters more than any forecast.
The load-bearing first pillar: photovoltaic learning curves, second-order effects, and the political economy of the transition.
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