I spend a lot of time thinking about economic life, how people experience it, and why the usual vocabulary for talking about it falls short. These essays try to build clearer frameworks for understanding poverty, wealth, and the structures between them. The series is still early.
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1. A Schema for Thinking About Economic Life
18 Mar 2026 — A working vocabulary for economic life. Nine categories from misery to ultra-wealth, and the two structural thresholds that define them.
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2. What Is Wealth
09 Apr 2026 — A thought experiment about a button that increases all real goods proportionally. What it reveals about wealth, growth, and who the mechanism reaches.
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2.5. Notes on Land Ownership
12 May 2026 — A layman's sketch arguing that Catholic intellectual tradition, applied carefully, converges with Henry George on the question of who owns the value of a location.
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3. What is Capital
12 May 2026 — A note before this one begins. The post is going up while theological review is still in progress. The scriptural readings in particular, what the Fall tells us about scarcity, and what the parable of the talents asks of us, are being checked by people who know the tradition better than I do. I expect to find out I have gotten things wrong. I am publishing anyway because I would rather show my work and be corrected than sit on it until I am safely above critique. If you catch a mistake before my reviewers do, please tell me.