2025
Non-Renewable Food and Cockroach Bars
A reflection on the collapse of edible diversity and what happens when biodiversity is treated as a non-renewable resource. Could market-based scarcity rents save us? or doom us to cockroach protein bars?
Global food production has grown remarkably since the 1960s, not by expanding farmland, but through technological intensification of agricultural practices. Mechanization…
Individual Fishing Quotas and Academic Overpublishing
How the 'publish or perish' culture in academia creates negative externalities by prioritizing quantity over quality, leading to systemic inefficiencies in knowledge production and dissemination. This piece examines overpublishing as a common-pool resource problem and its implications for scientific progress.
La tragedia de las camas desordenadas: entendiendo los derechos de propiedad
Cómo los derechos de propiedad ayudan a resolver problemas cotidianos y externalidades, desde camas desordenadas hasta sostenibilidad económica y ecológica.
2024
