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A Field Guide to Crypto Scams

Posted on May 14, 2026 by nathanalbright

Introduction The previous paper in this series argued that cryptocurrency attracts unusual concentrations of fraud because of a combination of structural features — irreversibility, pseudonymity, global reach, near-zero token creation costs — and cultural ones — tribal communities, influencer-driven information, … Continue reading →

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The Promise of Cryptocurrency

Posted on May 14, 2026 by nathanalbright

Introduction Few financial innovations of the past two decades have generated as much heat, and as little light, as cryptocurrency. To its advocates it is the foundation of a freer monetary order; to its critics it is a speculative mania … Continue reading →

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The Funding Ecosystem: Public, Private, and Philanthropic Pipelines for Neglect Studies

Posted on May 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This paper addresses the hardest practical problem the field faces: how a discipline whose central business is to study what institutional science neglects can secure funding from the same institutions whose attention patterns it exists to examine. The … Continue reading →

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On the Energy Mix of Bravian Provinces and the Implications of Energy Cost and Availability for Settlement and Productive Life

Posted on May 10, 2026 by nathanalbright

Provincial College of Porterville Working Paper Series in Covenantal Political Economy Working Paper No. 17 Albrecht Wegmüller, Chair of Public Works and Civil Covenants with reference to the typological work of H. Tschudi Porterville, Eleventh Month 3015 Abstract This paper … Continue reading →

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On the Transportation Constraints Surrounding Bravian Capitals and Their Implications for the Size and Provisioning of Seats of Government

Posted on May 10, 2026 by nathanalbright

Provincial College of Porterville Working Paper Series in Covenantal Political Economy Working Paper No. 15 Albrecht Wegmüller, Chair of Public Works and Civil Covenants with reference to the typological work of H. Tschudi Porterville, Ninth Month 3015 Abstract This paper … Continue reading →

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On Coastal Settlement Types, the Maturation of Trading Posts, and the Extraction Basin of the Free Port: A Continuation of the Typological Studies

Posted on May 10, 2026 by nathanalbright

Provincial College of Porterville Working Paper Series in Covenantal Political Economy Working Paper No. 14 Heinrich Tschudi, Chair of Law and Covenant Studies Porterville, Eighth Month 3015 Abstract This paper extends the typological program developed in earlier installments of this … Continue reading →

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The Pathology of Adversarial Asymmetry: How Institutions of Unequal Standing Default to Competition Where Cooperation Would Serve Both

Posted on May 2, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Across a striking range of institutional contexts, pairs or networks of organisations that are formally engaged in shared enterprise nonetheless structure their relationships adversarially rather than cooperatively, with predictable harms accruing disproportionately to the weaker party. The pattern … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Conditions for Rural Development as Pressure Relief on the Peripheral Territories of Newfoundland and Labrador

Posted on May 1, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This white paper addresses a question implied by the preceding analysis but not yet developed within it: under what conditions could rural development in Newfoundland and Labrador be made to function as genuine pressure relief on the non-primate territory … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Primate-City Concentration in the Far Periphery — Anchorage, Whitehorse, and St. John’s

Posted on May 1, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This white paper examines three sub-national primate cities — Anchorage, Alaska; Whitehorse, Yukon; and St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador — as instances of a distinct urban phenomenon: extreme population concentration in remote, peripheral jurisdictions of large federal states. Each … Continue reading →

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Instrument B — The Extraction vs. Retention Ratio (ERR)

Posted on April 28, 2026 by nathanalbright

1. Purpose and Scope 1.1 The Single Question the Ratio Answers The Extraction vs. Retention Ratio answers one question: of the value removed from a region through extraction in any of its forms, what proportion remains in the region in … Continue reading →

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