Andrei Stoica

The late 1970’s marked a break in the post-war compact between labor and capital , the tacit arrangement following World War II where businesses compromised with labor unions in exchange for stability and economic growth. In 1980, we saw the overwhelmingly popular elections of Ronald Reagan in the US and Margaret Thatcher in the UK. At home, Paul... See more

Painting and sculpture are now free, inasmuch as anyone may produce any sort of creation and subsequently display it. In architecture, however, this fundamental freedom, which must be regarded as a precondition for any art, does not exist, for a person must first have a diploma in order to build. Why?

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as... See more

In the model I want to lay out, non-Western populations globally became technologically modern through the effects of scientific and technological revolutions acting on a landscape of regional early modernities that took shape 1200-1400. The science-technology strand, being far more weakly attached (if at all) to the European historical experience... See more

I propose six significant levels of pace and size in the working structure of a robust and adaptable civilization. From fast to slow the levels are: - Fashion/art - Commerce- Infrastructure- Governance- Culture- Nature

Exporting your way out of a recession is fine and good — it’s basically how Germany and South Korea shrugged off the Great Recession in the early 2010s.3 But China’s export boom is heavily subsidized, both with explicit government subsidies, and — more importantly — with ultra-cheap abundant bank loans. Subsidies are distortionary — they mean that... See more