Franny Philos Sophia

Economy Without Oikonomia Semantic Capture and the Disciplinary Naturalization of a Wartime Ledger

The modern word "economy" is treated as a natural category. This paper argues that it is acaptured name. Pre-modern European lexicons maintained at least four lexically distinctregisters for what the word now covers: order-management (oikonomia), money-making(chrematistike), live...

Substance and Scalar: Why GDP Cannot See What Sustains It

GDP compresses an economy into a scalar. A scalar is a dimensionality reduction: thehigh-dimensional structure it projects from — positions within commercial flows, institutionalconfigurations, distributions of trust and capability — cannot be recovered from the projection.This p...

Substance and Scalar: Why GDP Cannot See What Sustains It

GDP compresses an economy into a scalar. A scalar is a dimensionality reduction: thehigh-dimensional structure it projects from — positions within commercial flows, institutionalconfigurations, distributions of trust and capability — cannot be recovered from the projection.This p...

Economy Without Oikonomia Semantic Capture and the Disciplinary Naturalization of a Wartime Ledger

The modern word "economy" is treated as a natural category. This paper argues that it is acaptured name. Pre-modern European lexicons maintained at least four lexically distinctregisters for what the word now covers: order-management (oikonomia), money-making(chrematistike), live...

From Fugitive Cash to Non-Fugitive Provisioning: The Mundellian Trilemma, External Debt Feedback, and the Design Space of Post-Employment Redistribution

The Mundellian trilemma is widely assumed to make large-scale redistribution — such as universal basic income — infeasible in an open global economy, yet this assumption has never been stated formally or tested dynamically. This paper constructs a four-bloc computational model of...

From Fugitive Cash to Non-Fugitive Provisioning: The Mundellian Trilemma, External Debt Feedback, and the Design Space of Post-Employment Redistribution

The Mundellian trilemma is widely assumed to make large-scale redistribution — such as universal basic income — infeasible in an open global economy, yet this assumption has never been stated formally or tested dynamically. This paper constructs a four-bloc computational model of...