Beyond greed: Mammon as an analogy for maloptimization and wicked problems Analogies are fundamental to how humans navigate abstractions. "Mammon” is how I refer to the tendency for technology, social policy, and other goal-oriented human action to give rise to seemingly paradoxical and unintended consequences.
Book list - Rising Risks: Navigating the Modern Risk Society Complex risks, fueled by abstract and sometimes interrelated crises, are becoming a common feature of the modern world and our politics.
The lethal economics of corporate kung fu Does competition in market capitalism incentivize increasingly cleverer ways of bypassing economic competition? This is the “paradox” at the heart of my writing at Misaligned Markets.
What's the purpose of Misaligned Markets Misaligned Markets is the result of a long intellectual journey to understand the structure and moral dimensions of markets under capitalism.
