Towards a New Theory of Wealth

Executive summary The literature does not support a single-cause theory of wealth. Classical political economy explains wealth through the division of labor, market expansion, and capital accumulation; neoclassical theory emphasizes marginal productivity, …

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More Wealth, More Complacency? Towards an Anti-Complacent Life

Executive summary The best answer from the literature is not “more wealth causes complacency,” but “more wealth can increase the risk of complacency through identifiable pathways, while also creating resources that can …

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The Purpose of Wealth Is Presence

Executive Summary The proposition “The purpose of wealth is presence” is partly true, but only under a strict instrumental reading. Across philosophy, religion, psychology, neuroscience, sociology, and economics, the strongest defensible version …

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Anything which adds to your presence is good, anything which REMOVES from your presence is bad. 

Presence as Salience, Attunement, and Credibility Executive summary The maxim “Anything which adds to your presence is good; anything which removes from your presence is bad” is directionally useful if “presence” is …

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Wealth and Anxiety

Executive summary The strongest reading of the evidence is not that wealth automatically creates calm, nor that it inevitably corrupts into status seeking. It is that wealth is best understood as a …

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Autotelic Entrepreneurship

Executive summary Autotelic entrepreneurship is best understood not as a settled formal construct in mainstream entrepreneurship research, but as a rigorous synthesis of three established literatures: autotelic personality and flow from Csikszentmihalyi’s …

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