A profitable agreement can improve current earnings while narrowing the alternatives available at renewal. An examination of investment, dependence, and the future ability to refuse.
Category Archives: Essays
The Authority to Decide
Could Grand Forks become more important to national defense companies while becoming less essential to their long-term investment strategies? An upstream assessment of utilization, substitutability, and regional bargaining power.
To Believe or Not to Believe
Belief is a matter of individual conscience, not collective obligation.
The Architecture of Tomorrow
North Dakota helped establish unmanned aviation. GMJoe™ Consulting examines a less visible economic frontier: who will control the institutional choices, technical rights, and commercial relationships that determine autonomy’s future value.
The Fertilizer Paradox
Can federal investment change who owns and controls fertilizer manufacturing—or will new competitors ultimately face the same incentives that concentrated the industry? The implications for North Dakota and American agriculture.
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The Economics of an Imperfect Harvest
An inquiry into agricultural loss, economic incentives, potato late blight, and the sovereignty paradox: greater production may introduce new dependencies over the conditions of production.
The Account We Give of Ourselves
By the time a person can discuss his past beautifully, someone else may have grown tired of correcting him. On the lives we explain and the lives our explanations leave behind.
The Cuban Paradox
The Cuban Paradox
What if the final triumph of the Castro revolution is its ability to disappear without surrendering power?
The Department of Limited Freedom
The most agreeable form of power is not the power to command. It is persuading the citizen that permission is protection.