The Spiral Economy

Most arguments about the economy are arguments about which model is correct — markets or planning, growth or degrowth, capitalism or whatever is supposed to replace it. The Spiral Economy starts somewhere else. It asks what changes when the architecture itself begins from generative relationships, from local agency, from regeneration and from the viability of the whole, instead of treating extraction, centralisation and linear optimisation as the defaults that everything else has to be bolted onto. It is not another compulsory ideology, and it does not need to win. The question simply shifts, from “which model is right?” to “what relationship lets this particular system stay generative?” — and that question can be asked of a household as easily as of a country.

The whole does not arrive fully formed, and it is not meant to. Its grammar starts appearing locally, in places that do not know about each other: a company that distributes authority to where the information is, a care organisation that rebuilds itself around the people in it, a school that protects curiosity, a municipality that gives its citizens room to act, an AI that removes bureaucracy instead of adding a layer of it. The Spiral Economy is the name for what those places have in common, and the papers below are my attempt to write that common ground down precisely enough that it can be tested.