HUM SPR MDA MI Miloslav Grundmann Language as an Escape from Reality A philosophical essay on Stoicism, Christianity, learned helplessness, and the modern institutional tendency to police words instead of…
ECO SOC MI Miloslav Grundmann Claim Capital: Why Wealthy Economies Become Rich in Assets and Poor in Possibilities Modern economies may not lack capital. They may lack the capacity to turn capital into future production.
ECO SOC MI Miloslav Grundmann Correcting Marx: From Capital vs Labour to Productive Capital vs Claim Capital Marx was right that the structure of capital matters. But modern capitalism is increasingly shaped by claims on what cannot be reproduced.
ECO SOC MI Miloslav Grundmann Why Modern Growth Cannot Be Explained by “Capital” Alone The central problem of modern growth is not only how much capital an economy has, but what kind of capital it accumulates.
ECO SOC MI Miloslav Grundmann When a Country Looks Rich but Becomes Structurally Poor The difference between productive capital and claim capital
HUM SOC MDA MI Miloslav Grundmann A Note on How to Read My Essays These essays are not written as partisan commentary, but as an attempt to identify the hidden mechanisms through which power, legitimacy…
ECO SOC MDA MI Miloslav Grundmann Claim Capital and Productive Absorption: Why Asset Growth Is Not the Same as Economic Growth This short essay introduces the concepts of claim capital and productive absorption. A fuller academic version of the argument is available…
ECO TCH MI Miloslav Grundmann Conditional Settlement Finality: Why Modern Payments Are Never Truly Final Real-time payments created the illusion of immediate certainty. Modern compliance systems quietly removed it.