Archive
Writing that starts with behavior and usually ends somewhere more social.
Essays, research notes, and working thoughts on signaling, norms, markets, and the stories people attach to objects and decisions.
- Prohibition's Second Price Why prohibition in a status-driven market does not stand opposite to it but enters its price formation
- When Awareness Looks Like an Ad Why a decade of rhino horn demand reduction has been selling the product
- What Synthetic Horn Cannot Carry Why synthetic rhino horn was never going to save the rhino
- My Master's Thesis: What Diamonds Reveal About Norms, Love, and Social Meaning A thesis note on natural versus synthetic diamonds, symbolic meaning, and why materially similar objects can still carry very different social weight