This site is an inquiry into the structural architecture of economies.
It begins with familiar aggregates such as GDP, growth, and employment, then moves toward deeper questions of productivity, allocation, dispersion, and institutional mechanisms.
The aim is not simply to compare countries, but to understand how modern economies are internally organized — and why some achieve structural compression while others maintain persistent duality.
How to Read This Site
The EPISODE pages build the empirical structure step by step.
The DISCUSSION pages examine the mechanisms that may explain the patterns revealed by the episodes.
These episodes establish the most familiar dimensions of the economy: level, scale, and motion.
These episodes move from output itself to the people who produce it: who works, where they work, and how labor is allocated.
These episodes focus on output per worker, the relationship between employment and value creation, and how structural productivity gaps evolve over time across sectors.
Structural Turning Point
By the end of this stage, the central question changes.
The issue is no longer simply how rich a country is, but how its productivity is internally organized and how that structure evolves over time — and whether it tends toward compression, persistence, or divergence.
These episodes examine how fully available labor is utilized and how labor market structures shape participation, employment, and mobility.
The discussion pages move beyond measurement and ask what mechanisms may generate the structural patterns observed in the episodes.