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Economics

2 essays

The Design Is in the Maintenance

Meiji Japan's cash land tax produced a landlord class that no one decreed, which suggests that inequality needs no author of intent, only rules that are kept in place once their results are visible.

Kenji Ishimura · October 16, 2026 · 6 min read

The Pattern That Knows It Is a Pattern

Ray Dalio's Big Cycle is most persuasive precisely when it is least actionable — and that is the oldest problem in historical thinking.

Kenji Ishimura · March 17, 2026 · 6 min read