Archive - nontechnical

Reading Notes: Power and Plenty

Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium by Ronald Findlay and Kevin O’Rourke is a solid book.

Mar 14 • nontechnical

January 2026

Kids Versus Savings Fallacy

In the previous post, I described “savings fallacy” — the tendency to think about the stock of money as an actual resource.

Jan 24 • nontechnical

Savings Fallacy

Monies are not what they seem

Jan 20 • nontechnical

A World Of Atoms, A World Of Humans

How does the world work?

Jan 10 • nontechnical

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