Ice-9: Linkages, Path Dependency, and The Logic of Capitalism

I normally do not like it when writers use a personal scale to talk about the economics of countries. If you see that rhetorical move in the wild, you know that it is about to be used as an excuse as to why we have no policy that somehow takes care of a broad base of people but oddly can still funnel contracts to arms dealers and remove social obligations from society’s wealth winners. I’m going to talk not about a household with its simplification, but myself as an economic actor.