Political Economy Politics and markets are not separate worlds.
Together, they decide who gets room to move, who is trapped by debt or price or law, and who is made to carry the cost.
Each week, I look past the noise of events to the forces underneath them: money, states, class, energy, institutions, chokepoints, and power.
Political Economy with Werner Mouton
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Hidden Market will be free to everyone for the next two months and will be published every two weeks while I build the new political economy site.
Hidden Market
A letter about the hidden human life inside markets, debt, work, rent, prices, and policy.
The free weekly letter will remain and continue to offer serious insights into the forces beneath politics, money, markets, and power.
Hidden Market is the deeper political economy letter for readers who want to understand what sits beneath the economic news.
The letter follows three forces shaping ordinary life.
MONEY AND THE STATE
Central banks, interest rates, inflation, debt, budgets, taxes, public services, and the language of "credibility" and "confidence."
What is being made to sound technical that is actually political?
WORK AND THE COST OF LIVING
Wages, jobs, prices, food, energy, transport, household debt, strikes, care, and time.
How is economic pressure entering ordinary life?
OWNERSHIP AND EVERYDAY POWER
Rent, housing, land, banks, supermarkets, platforms, corporate power, monopolies, private equity, and essential services.
Who owns the thing people need, and what does that ownership allow.