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What the Epstein Files tell us about elite loneliness

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10) The Regrowths

The final video of the Econ Life series goes into Five Paradigms of Change

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Who profits from a world without cash?

And what does Bitcoin, CBDC and Stablecoins have to do with this?

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The Stranger King of Venezuela

An anthropological lens on Trump's American Colonialism

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2025, in summary

The AI-Trump nexus, and my top pieces this year

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The Global Money System in 10 Pictures

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The War on Informality

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A Lego Model of Financial Capitalism

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How to free your mind from Big Tech propaganda

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9) The Ouroboros Economy

Part 9 of Introduction to Econ Life

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Is Black Friday a Spell?

How a description of herding became a prescription to stampede

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What David Graeber can teach you about narco gangs, airports and your boss

There's more to the economic world than just cold exchange

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Econ Life 101

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10) The Regrowths

The final video of the Econ Life series goes into Five Paradigms of Change

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9) The Ouroboros Economy

Part 9 of Introduction to Econ Life

Dec 3, 2025 • Brett Scott

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8) Economic Numbness

Our system is an elephant we can't see or feel

Mar 18, 2025 • Brett Scott

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7) Coming of Age in Corporate Capitalism

The Phenomenology of Life in Market Society

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6) The Market Worldview

Commodification, alienation and the myth of independence

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