A forthcoming book and academic series from The SCHISM
What happens when equilibrium fails?
For decades, macroeconomic models have relied on elegant assumptions: representative agents, rational optimization, steady-state growth. But what if these assumptions obscure more than they reveal? What if the real engine of economic expansion lies not in productivity, but in pressure—psychological, cultural, and systemic?
A new framework for understanding consumption
The Marginal Propensity to Splurge is a radical rethinking of macroeconomic theory. It proposes that consumption is not merely a function of income, but a dynamic, expressive force shaped by inequality, aspiration, and behavioral heuristics. Drawing on evolutionary psychology, distributional data, and nonlinear modeling, this work introduces a new metric—MPΔC—to capture the agent-level impulse to expand consumption envelopes.
Why it matters
- Challenges the foundations of orthodox macroeconomic models
- Explains stagnation, inequality, and growth through endogenous consumption dynamics
- Reframes consumption as cultural performance, not just utility maximization
- Offers a new lens for policy, taxation, and fiscal design
What’s coming
This project will be released in two forms:
- A book, accessible for lay readers of economics, politics, and philosophy
- A series of academic papers introducing a new macroeconomic model grounded in heterogeneity and emergent behavior
Join the rupture
The SCHISM is more than a platform—it’s a community of critique. If you’re tired of equilibrium dogma, if you believe economic theory should reflect lived reality, if you want to be part of a movement that challenges orthodoxy with precision and polemic—this is your moment.
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“We do not splurge because we are irrational. We splurge because we are human.”