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Re-examining the canonical narrative of the 1970s stagflation episode using newly digitized energy and wage data. The standard supply-shock story holds up only partially.
We sketch the minimal data model and trust mechanisms needed to publish, version, cite, and discuss independent research without institutional gatekeeping.
Tree-ring widths carry signal but the inversion to temperature time series is poorly conditioned. We characterize the conditions under which the inversion is and is not stable.
Rather than dissolving induction skepticism, this paper argues it is best handled by treating induction as an explicit policy choice subject to its own meta-justification.
Knowledge worker output per hour has stagnated despite enormous capital investment in productivity tooling. This paper explores measurement bias, attention fragmentation, and the rise of meta-work as candidate explanations.