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Contestable Economic Power: Why Institutions Must Remain Challengeable

April 30, 2018

My illustration entitled: "The Glass Fortress" — A grand institutional fortress has transparent walls, allowing citizens to see and challenge what happens inside. Power becomes dangerous when the peopl...

Can an Economy Be Prosperous but Not Free?

November 22, 2016

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Two Measures of a Civilization" - Two colossal instruments rise above a flourishing city. One overflows with symbols of wealth—homes, food, inventions and gold. The other meas...

Economic Veto Power: Who Has the Power to Stop You From Acting?

April 30, 2014

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Tower of Approvals" — A citizen looks up at a towering stack of offices, each controlling one necessary approval. Economic freedom is not only the power to begin. It is a...

Economic Sovereignty and Institutional Legitimacy: When Is Economic Exit Justified?

November 22, 2013

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Foundation That No Longer Holds" - Beneath a towering financial city, a cutaway reveals its foundations: fair treatment, dependable rules and public accountability, represente...

The Regulatory Moat: When Compliance Becomes a Barrier to Competition

October 10, 2009

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Scales Beneath the Colossus" - In an immense regulatory hall, a small workshop and a corporate titan face identical towering compliance weights. The titan carries its weight e...

Political Economics: Money, Power and the Foundations of Economic Liberty

August 18, 2008

Opinion, Visual Arts

Herbert Sim’s Political Economics framework (PoliticalEconomics.com) established: 23 June 2002 First public articulation: 18 August 2008 Above is my illustration entitled: "Economic Liberty Under Pr...

Who Makes the Rules of Exchange? Institutional Legitimacy and Economic Power

December 20, 2007

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Foundation Stone Everyone Can Question" - At the heart of an immense trading metropolis, citizens lift a monumental foundation stone engraved with the rules of exchange. Benea...

Faith, Technology and Power: Why I Acquired Four Domains About Humanity’s Future

November 9, 2007

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "Four Domains, One Conscience" - An editorial still life places four objects around an open Bible: a prosthetic hand, a neural circuit board, a DNA model and a globe resting on eco...

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