The Bounded Economy

The Bounded Economy

An economy designed so wealth cannot condense.

Articles. The concept paper and the essay series on smart money — why wealth condenses under fair rules, and how to design money so it can't.
  • Concept paper

    The concept paper

    The full design and the evidence: five fused primitives — a floor, a ceiling, demurrage, an effort curve, and one-human-one-account — with agent-based simulation results validated against the econophysics of inequality.

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  • Essay · Part 1

    Is money doing its job? And can we make it?

    Even when they do everything they're asked to — get the degree, take the job, put in the years — today's youth still can't afford a house, or the family…

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  • Essay · Part 2

    Can you build a rule into money?

    A floor nobody falls through. A ceiling the pile can't cross. It sounds like a wish — you can pass a law about money, tax it, fine it, but the money its…

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  • Essay · Part 3

    We choose the economy we want.

    Part 2 ended on "let's build it." But there's no single it. The rules are levers, and where each one sits is a choice — yours. This isn't an economy han…

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