Universal Basic Income is a long-standing umbrella concept that is attracting ever more attention in light of the prognostications of a dire future wherein economic inequality is greatly exacerbated by various socioeconomic and technological factors. This discussion paper provides a synthesis of...

This discussion paper examines a possible limitation to the advancement of blockchain: the intrinsic tradeoff between scaling to a larger size, and the need to maintain a decentralized and distributed architecture. The scaling vs. decentralization trade-off, the paper argues, may impose a...

The scope of tax evasion in developing countries represents cause for extreme fiscal concern. To combat this, a host of conventional and unconventional strategies are being deployed by fiscal authorities around the world. This paper examines the practitioner and academic context in which tax...

The domain of aviation is already a centerpiece of global economic life, and its importance to socioeconomic activity continues to grow by leaps and bounds, which is why the concept of the aerotropolis, as urban design centered around an aviation hub, has gained renewed attention. This working...

Economic theorizations of malevolence as laid out in Bargaining Theory (Anderton and Carter 2009) have discussed how grievances over perceived injustices can alter the utility functions, settlement net resources, and therefore the propensity and calculus of war between two nations. To put this...

Economic theorizations of political bias and war as laid out in Bargaining Theory (Jackson and Morelli 2007; Anderton and Carter 2009) have demonstrated that a political leadership's penchant for war may be much higher than that of the people they represent, and the calculus of war for internal...

The “Bank Run” phenomenon in financial market is characterized at least in part by panicked market psychology and a subjacent market fragility, but as this discussion paper notes, the Bitcoin market is also at risk due to unsavvy and uninformed investors, speculative second-order capital,...

The aim of this paper is to contextualize the collapse of FTX in light of the deeper problem of cryptoexchanges. Within the domain of cryptocurrencies, whose technological basis is imbued with trustlessness and decentralization, cryptoexchanges are in fact premised on human agency and trust, and...