Economics Archives - Herbert R. Sim

Reauthorism in 2026: Public Authorship in the Age of AI and Geoeconomic Power

November 5, 2026

A consolidated proposal for preserving the knowledge, resources and authority to reconsider essential economic arrangements. My illustration entitled: "The Unfinished Atlas of 2026" - an immense open a...

Who Receives the AI Productivity Dividend? Labour, Capital and Ownership

December 23, 2025

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Machine Built by Thousands, Owned by Few" - An immense intelligent machine rises above a metropolis, its foundations visibly assembled from the work of thousands of people. At...

Does Reauthorism Punish Success? Investment, Stability and the Cost of Change

September 27, 2025

Opinion, Visual Arts

Public revision capacity deserves protection, but its institutions must justify their costs, limits and effects on prosperity. My illustration entitled: "The City With Two Clocks" - Two great clocks ov...

The Reauthorism Test: Can People Change the System That Serves Them?

December 12, 2024

Opinion, Visual Arts

Seven questions for examining public revision capacity without reducing institutional judgment to a score. My illustration entitled: "The Control Room with an Open Door" - a flourishing city’s control ...

Measuring Economic Sovereignty: A Stress Test of Friction, Alternatives and Capability

September 5, 2024

Opinion, Writing Life

My illustration entitled: "The Observatory of Economic Freedom" - Inside a monumental open observatory, three immense instruments examine a living trading metropolis: one measures resistance along its route...

When Parallel Markets Fail: Liquidity, Fraud, Coordination and Exit

September 21, 2023

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The City of Unsynchronised Clocks" - An immense trading metropolis operates beneath hundreds of monumental clocks, each showing a different hour. Goods arrive after warehouses clo...

The AI Dividend Is Not Enough: Who Authors the Automated Economy?

August 16, 2023

Opinion, Visual Arts

Sharing automation's gains matters. So does preserving the knowledge, resources and authority to decide what automation is for. My illustration entitled: "The Loom of the Automated Future" - intelligen...

Platform Sovereignty: When Private Platforms Become Economic Institutions

April 30, 2023

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Locked Audience" — Creators stand behind glass, separated from the communities they built on a platform they do not own. A platform is not merely a private service when l...

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