Werner MoutonI write about political economy and the forces that shape how people live.
Here, you will find my essays, notes, and a record of what I notice.
My broader work also appears as videos and a podcast, Political Economy with Werner Mouton.
What Political Economy Is, and Why It Matters
Most of us are taught to speak about the economy as if it were a machine. It grows. It slows. It overheats. It cools. It corrects itself. We speak as if it sits above the country and moves by its own laws and answers to no one. But the economy is not the weather. It does not happen to us. People make it.
