The contemporary debate over pronouns assumes they are either expressions of biological sex or personal identity. Both views miss their traditional role. Pronouns are interpretive judgments made by speakers using incomplete information in a social world. The deeper issue is not gender, but freedom of conscience and the right to interpret.
Critics of inequality are often accused of pursuing equality of outcome. But what if that criticism misunderstands the argument entirely? This article argues that inequality is not merely a record of past economic performance, but a causal factor that shapes future opportunity, entrepreneurship, social mobility and economic growth. Once inequality is understood as part of the machinery of the economy rather than a scoreboard, the debate shifts from redistribution toward optimisation.
Drawing lessons from meteorology and medicine, this article argues that economics should evolve from ideological debate toward evidence-based optimisation. Rather than asking whether taxation, inequality, or redistribution are inherently good or bad, economists should focus on identifying the policy settings that best achieve society’s chosen objectives.
Twenty-five years after the Founders’ Strike, Atlantis appears to have won. Yet Club Atlantis, once the social and economic heart of the community, is in decline. Through a conversation between an ageing John Galt and a young visitor, Club Atlantis explores a question Atlas Shrugged never asked: what happens when productive people continue creating value but stop investing in the institutions that make value creation possible?
Modern macroeconomics often begins with an assumption of general equilibrium and explains deviations through exogenous shocks. But what if this approach is missing a more fundamental source of macroeconomic motion? Using the analogy of ocean currents, this essay argues that local equilibrium conditions may be only part of the story. The most important macroeconomic behaviours may emerge from dynamic flows generated by differences between heterogeneous agents, markets and industries. Rather than viewing the economy as a system repeatedly disturbed by shocks, perhaps we should see it as a system continuously shaped by endogenous flows.
Many of history’s greatest scientific breakthroughs occurred not because new facts were discovered, but because old facts were viewed through a better frame. From Copernicus to Einstein, progress often emerged when apparent complexity was revealed to be a consequence of perspective. This article asks whether economics faces a similar challenge. What if rationality is not the natural frame through which human decision-making should be viewed? And what if the future of economics lies in discovering the mathematical regularities that govern how people actually behave, rather than how theoretical agents ought to behave?
Modern macroeconomic models assume structural parameters are relatively stable. This paper argues that rising inequality systematically changes those parameters through endogenous feedback loops, rendering conventional VAR and DSGE approaches incapable of accurately forecasting long-run growth. A cellular automata simulation is proposed as an alternative framework for modelling complex adaptive economic systems.
Modern macroeconomics is built upon Homo Economicus: a rational, utility-maximising agent that sits at the centre of theories of growth, equilibrium and welfare. Yet psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary biology and behavioural economics increasingly suggest that no such cognitive architecture exists. This essay argues that economics has become an intellectual oxbow lake, isolated from the scientific discoveries that should have forced a revision of its foundations.
Current domestic violence policy is highly effective at detecting visible harm—but far less equipped to recognise indirect coercive control. This article proposes a causal behavioural systems framework to better understand escalation, misidentification, and the critical role of early help-seeking in preventing harm.
This article documents a 2024–26 NSW domestic‑violence case in which a high‑risk victim who sought police protection was misidentified as the perpetrator after false counter‑allegations were accepted without investigation. Despite extreme‑risk scores under mandatory assessment tools, protections were not triggered, evidence was lost, and oversight bodies declined to intervene — leading to serious, lasting harm.
