Economics Archives - Herbert R. Sim

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

December 23, 2025

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...

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...

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...

Counter-Economic Capture: When Alternative Markets Become New Gatekeepers

May 20, 2022

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Broken Chains Forged into a Crown" - Above a bustling trading metropolis, founders melt the broken chains of an earlier monopoly into an immense golden crown. Below them, merc...

Self-Custody as Economic Infrastructure: From Access to Direct Control

April 30, 2021

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Personal Vault" — An individual securely manages a glowing digital vault without intermediaries. Economic freedom is not secured when a person is merely allowed to use a ...

The Economic Sovereignty Matrix: Power, Friction, Alternatives and Capability

December 6, 2020

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Observatory of Economic Power" - Inside a mountain-sized observatory, four enormous lenses examine the same trading city. One reveals controlling hands, another hidden bottlen...

State-Platform Gatekeeping: When Public and Private Permissions Converge

June 22, 2018

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Handshake Above the Gates" - Two immense figures—an armoured state guardian and a translucent corporate intelligence—shake hands above a crowded city entrance. Their joined wr...

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