Cities, Capital & Geography

Where wealth chooses to live

Capital is not loyal to a city. It is loyal to the conditions. The political economy of global financial centers — how they're built, how they hold, how they migrate, and what the historical record actually says about which addresses last.

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Essay · Published · June 2026 · 52 min

New York as a Living Capital Ecosystem

On inequality as mechanism, network logic, and the limits of democratic governance over mobile capital. Why the city's global power and its extreme inequality are not separate phenomena but expressions of the same operating logic — and why the historical record contains exactly three previous addresses and no examples of permanent residence.

Political Economy · Global Cities · Inequality · Governance

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