Research program

Strike the root.

The 21st century’s decisive questions sit beneath today’s policy fights. We make them explicit—and test them.

Freedom and Flourishing are the stakes. Technology is the force reshaping both. Agency is the through-line.

Flagship question

Can AI plan an economy?

Update the calculation debate for machine planning and establish the limits of economic control.

Flagship question

Develop the theory of HyperPrices: algorithmic, engineered, and synthetic prices that look like discovery while carrying centralized assumptions.

Flagship question

Examine the epistemic limits of models that replace value, judgment, and responsibility with labels, metrics, and proxies.

Flagship question

Build usable doctrine around ownership, accountable judgment, contestability, competition, and meaningful exit.