Issue 3 · 2025
Inflation, uncertainty and the AI boom: from the “AI money machine” to creative destruction and the Ottoman debt spiral, plus an interview with Prof. Dr. Erdem Başçı.
10 articles
Read each one on its own page, with an AI summary and charts.
In This Issue
Nov 28, 2025 · Article · 7 min
How AI expectations in fiction diverge from reality and why we're experiencing an AI winter.
Read articleNov 28, 2025 · Article · 3 min
Learning transcends diminishing returns when people invest in new knowledge and skills.
Read articleNov 28, 2025 · Article · 15 min
How the AI ecosystem's circular capital flows and platform dynamics justify billions in investments and fuel continued growth.
Read articleNov 28, 2025 · Interview · 6 min
Prof. Başçı on inflation dynamics, AI opportunities for emerging economies, and digital currencies.
Read interviewNov 28, 2025 · Article · 6 min
Inflation was in the past, and it will be in the future.
Read articleNov 28, 2025 · Article · 11 min
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics explains how technological progress and creative destruction drive growth.
Read articleNov 28, 2025 · Article · 5 min
How productivity, exports, and growth form a self-reinforcing virtuous cycle for nations.
Read articleNov 28, 2025 · Article · 4 min
Examining the paradox of AI and labor productivity: empirical evidence of gains versus risks of over-automation.
Read articleNov 28, 2025 · Article · 5 min
How 19th-century foreign borrowing trapped the Ottoman Empire in debt dependency and economic dependence.
Read articleNov 28, 2025 · Interview · 7 min
Interview with Prof. Dr. Altuğ Yalçıntaş on AI's economic impact, labor disruption, and digital sovereignty.
Read interview