ISHEA Institute Carlos J. Pérez Pulido
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ECO · The route

Economy 5.0

Measure differently to decide better

The K-Model and the ISHEA Index: what an economy measures once it stops looking only at GDP and starts counting knowledge, well-being and resilience.

148 pieces

Archive pieces

Bolívar or Washington? The Dollarization Debate

NOTA-ECO-006 · Economy 5.0

Bolívar or Washington? The Dollarization Debate

A rereading of Venezuela's monetary debate: the choice between the bolívar and the dollar hides the real issue, which is not the face on the banknote but the institutional architecture behind it.

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When the Water Overflows the Glass, the System Dries Up

NOTA-ECO-007 · Economy 5.0

When the Water Overflows the Glass, the System Dries Up

A reflection on complex systems: abundance that exceeds the capacity to absorb it does not enrich but depletes. An economic reading of why excess without channels ends up drying out the system.

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PDVSA Internacional and the Black Box

NOTA-ECO-008 · Economy 5.0

PDVSA Internacional and the Black Box

Venezuela's oil internationalization in the 1980s and 1990s was efficient on paper yet opaque from outside. The piece asks what happens when a system stops trusting its own architecture.

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Today's Weakness May Be Venezuela's Greatest Future Leverage

NOTA-ECO-010 · Economy 5.0

Today's Weakness May Be Venezuela's Greatest Future Leverage

The debate over the agreement fixates on how much Venezuela gives up. This piece inverts the question and reads present weakness as the negotiating leverage the country has yet to activate.

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Venezuela 1999–2026: How Did We Get Here?

NOTA-ECO-011 · Economy 5.0

Venezuela 1999–2026: How Did We Get Here?

A route from the start of the Chávez era, when Venezuela held extraordinary oil reserves, to 2026: the chain of decisions that explains the country of today.

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3/3 Venezuela: What We Were, What We Can Become Again

NOTA-ECO-012 · Economy 5.0

3/3 Venezuela: What We Were, What We Can Become Again

The closing part of the series draws on Ambassador Lisan Stradel's testimony to reconstruct what Venezuela once represented, and which parts of that capacity remain available today.

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Venezuela–U.S. oil agreement 2026: another view

NOTA-ECO-019 · Economy 5.0

Venezuela–U.S. oil agreement 2026: another view

First instalment of the series: 65 billion barrels, 100 billion dollars of private investment and a reading of the agreement in which oil is only the starting point of a much larger shift.

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Is it the cow's fault in Venezuela?

NOTA-ECO-021 · Economy 5.0

Is it the cow's fault in Venezuela?

The retailer as scapegoat for a system with structural leaks. It carries over to Venezuela the analysis of hidden costs and political narrative previously applied to the United Kingdom.

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NOTA-ECO-024 · Economy 5.0

Real Growth or Statistical Recovery in Venezuela?

Venezuela's central bank reports GDP growth of 7.71% and 7.14% in 2025. The piece asks whether those figures describe genuine expansion or the arithmetic rebound of a depressed base.

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The Arctic Route: Business or Geopolitical Momentum?

NOTA-ECO-025 · Economy 5.0

The Arctic Route: Business or Geopolitical Momentum?

The first China–Europe Arctic service sailed with barely 1,740 TEU. The piece weighs whether the corridor is a viable shipping business or an advance geopolitical position.

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How Far Can Washington Tighten the Pliers?

NOTA-ECO-026 · Economy 5.0

How Far Can Washington Tighten the Pliers?

A reading of the limits of U.S. pressure drawing on Mark Pfeifle, former White House adviser: where coercion stops being effective and starts eroding political credibility instead.

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Geopolitics versus Idealism

NOTA-ECO-029 · Economy 5.0

Geopolitics versus Idealism

A response to Pedro M. Burelli's analysis of legitimacy in Venezuela: a theoretically sound argument that collides with the logic of power that governs international relations.

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Venezuela Is Headed in the Wrong Direction

NOTA-ECO-030 · Economy 5.0

Venezuela Is Headed in the Wrong Direction

An op-ed for the Financial Times arguing that Washington has discarded the lessons that made Eastern Europe's transitions work, and is steering Venezuela down a far costlier path.

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NOTA-ECO-031 · Economy 5.0

Venezuela Is More Than Oil: A Promise of Hope

A dispatch written on the ground: a productive ecosystem full of contradictions and friction that, beyond oil, points to sources of wealth and hope still waiting to be explored.

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In geopolitics, as in Go, the board is worth gold

NOTA-ECO-032 · Economy 5.0

In geopolitics, as in Go, the board is worth gold

Go as a model of international power: victory belongs not to whoever captures a piece, but to whoever controls the board. A reading of geopolitical strategy as position rather than conquest.

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Geoeconomics in action: power through flows

NOTA-ECO-033 · Economy 5.0

Geoeconomics in action: power through flows

Twenty-first-century conflicts are no longer won by controlling territory, but flows. Carlos Pérez Pulido examines how trade, energy and data have become instruments of power.

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NOTA-ECO-036 · Economy 5.0

Jumanji: When the Board Stops Obeying

An economic metaphor drawn from the game that comes alive: when the rules escape the control of those who wrote them, the system starts moving the pieces on its own and demands new strategies.

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A Pub Inside Lidl? Not Marketing, but Strategic Adaptation

NOTA-ECO-038 · Economy 5.0

A Pub Inside Lidl? Not Marketing, but Strategic Adaptation

The opening of The Middle Ale, Lidl's first pub in the world, read not as a campaign but as a signal of how large retail is adapting to a consumer whose habits have already changed.

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The New Era of Creators Is Actually About Time

NOTA-ECO-039 · Economy 5.0

The New Era of Creators Is Actually About Time

Creation, invention and innovation are not the same thing: creation begins in observation and curiosity. The piece separates the three and shows that what is really at stake is time.

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Venezuela's oil comeback: not a boom, a restart

NOTA-ECO-040 · Economy 5.0

Venezuela's oil comeback: not a boom, a restart

A 25% rise in Venezuelan oil output reads well on paper. The piece asks the harder question: not how much production grew, but why, and what that reveals about the country's real capacity.

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Withholdings are not money on account, in real economic terms

NOTA-ECO-041 · Economy 5.0

Withholdings are not money on account, in real economic terms

Fiscal discourse presents income-tax withholdings and corporate advance payments as a neutral prepayment. The piece shows that, economically, they work as an early transfer of liquidity.

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NOTA-ECO-043 · Economy 5.0

Support for every initiative for Venezuela's future

A brief note of support for the projects working toward Venezuela's future, and a commitment: to keep contributing from one's own small trench, with steady work and prudence.

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NOTA-ECO-044 · Economy 5.0

Personal breaking news: a 7.1 earthquake in Caracas

A 7.1 earthquake hit Venezuela, bringing down buildings in Altamira and Los Palos Grandes. A personal note written from the distance of someone whose family and friends live there.

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An Experiment I Never Planned (2/4)

NOTA-ECO-045 · Economy 5.0

An Experiment I Never Planned (2/4)

A warehouse in the Netherlands brings together young workers from Spain, Portugal, Poland, Romania and Turkey. Same shift, same load: an involuntary laboratory on energy and work.

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Real Global Power Is Not Military, It Is Financial

NOTA-ECO-048 · Economy 5.0

Real Global Power Is Not Military, It Is Financial

Ninety per cent of world trade runs through the dollar via SWIFT. The piece reads that network not as a payment system but as the nervous system of the economy, and its true seat of power.

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From Copper Tokens to Bitcoin

NOTA-ECO-049 · Economy 5.0

From Copper Tokens to Bitcoin

A ten-cent token from Hacienda San Pedro, in nineteenth-century Mérida, was only worth something inside the estate. The piece traces the line from that closed money to Bitcoin.

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Metals reveal the cognitive layer of markets

NOTA-ECO-050 · Economy 5.0

Metals reveal the cognitive layer of markets

Copper, gold, lithium and steel no longer behave as isolated commodities. After the coffee and eggs signal, metals expose a deeper cognitive layer within systemic pricing.

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The coffee on your table is not the same anymore

NOTA-ECO-051 · Economy 5.0

The coffee on your table is not the same anymore

As already observed in the eggs pricing signal, essential commodities no longer behave in isolation. Breakfast becomes a readable indicator of a deeper structural transformation.

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Six eggs used to cost one pound

NOTA-ECO-052 · Economy 5.0

Six eggs used to cost one pound

Today they cost almost double, and it is not only eggs: milk and bread too. Visible evidence of a deeper global structural transformation that many still analyse in isolation.

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Venezuela: A Cyclical Rebound, Not a Structural Recovery

NOTA-ECO-053 · Economy 5.0

Venezuela: A Cyclical Rebound, Not a Structural Recovery

A commentary on Benjamín Tripier's analysis in El Nacional, which separates a momentary upturn from the structural recovery the Venezuelan economy has yet to achieve.

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The Silent Shift in Europe's Social Contract

NOTA-ECO-054 · Economy 5.0

The Silent Shift in Europe's Social Contract

Not a collapse but a structural reconfiguration: Europe is entering a phase in which it can no longer sustain every promise of its inherited welfare model at the same time.

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Taiwan: Inevitable War or the System's Physical Limits?

NOTA-ECO-055 · Economy 5.0

Taiwan: Inevitable War or the System's Physical Limits?

The dominant narrative treats a clash between China and the United States as inevitable. This reading reframes it, analysing the conflict as a problem of physical and energy limits.

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Beyond ideology: let science guide human progress

NOTA-ECO-059 · Economy 5.0

Beyond ideology: let science guide human progress

We discuss economics, work and society, and the ideological label always appears. An invitation to replace that grammar with verifiable scientific criteria.

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Feet on the Ground: Venezuela v2.0

NOTA-ECO-061 · Economy 5.0

Feet on the Ground: Venezuela v2.0

An economic reading of the US Energy Secretary's remarks on Venezuela and what an early stabilisation phase after years of deterioration actually means on the ground.

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Coca-Cola versus PepsiCo: When the Secret Makes You Lose

NOTA-ECO-062 · Economy 5.0

Coca-Cola versus PepsiCo: When the Secret Makes You Lose

A comparative case between two giants: Coca-Cola guarded the world's most famous formula, while PepsiCo had no secrets, only strategy. The contrast explains two very different paths.

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NOTA-ECO-063 · Economy 5.0

OPEC Didn't Lose a Member: It Lost Control

The United Arab Emirates' exit from the cartel was no emotional gesture but a cold, calculated decision. An analysis of what it reveals about where real power sits in the crude oil market.

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Consumerism: The System's Side Effect

NOTA-ECO-064 · Economy 5.0

Consumerism: The System's Side Effect

Drawing on Biophysics: Limit of Humanity, this piece frames consumption as a symptom rather than a choice: desire manufactured by the system, not need arising from the body.

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The Judge Decided Your Future Before Lunch

NOTA-ECO-065 · Economy 5.0

The Judge Decided Your Future Before Lunch

On the 2011 Israeli study of a thousand judicial rulings: rationality is not a continuous state but an energetic mode of operation that depletes as the hours pass.

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GDP Celebrates Your Accident

NOTA-ECO-066 · Economy 5.0

GDP Celebrates Your Accident

A piece from Inverted Economics on an indicator that adds up the spending caused by a car crash: GDP does not err in counting harm, it is designed to record it as wealth.

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Every Time You Open Your Phone, Someone Makes Money

NOTA-ECO-067 · Economy 5.0

Every Time You Open Your Phone, Someone Makes Money

On the inverted economy of data: the fight is not over gathering more information, but over who decides what it is worth. The user is not the customer but the commodity.

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The Resource No One Counts

NOTA-ECO-068 · Economy 5.0

The Resource No One Counts

Knowledge becomes the master variable only when it turns into energy. A proposal for measuring the new economy in energetic units rather than in dollars.

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The Economy No One Wants to See

NOTA-ECO-070 · Economy 5.0

The Economy No One Wants to See

The farmer, the caregiver and the teacher are the least rewarded in the system. When you change the variables you measure, you change the world you build.

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Who pays the bill? Or who feeds the AI

NOTA-ECO-071 · Economy 5.0

Who pays the bill? Or who feeds the AI

Access to knowledge has become almost free, yet no artificial intelligence runs without energy: someone pays that bill, and it is worth knowing who.

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Venezuela uphill, in full traction

NOTA-ECO-072 · Economy 5.0

Venezuela uphill, in full traction

Signs of hope in Venezuela's business fabric, read as a climb that can only be made in full traction: capital, confidence and energy pulling in the same direction.

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Retail is not evolving: it is being replaced

NOTA-ECO-073 · Economy 5.0

Retail is not evolving: it is being replaced

This is no incremental improvement but a system shift: the retail operating model has collapsed under high costs and margins that no longer sustain the structure.

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What If Human Progress Is Being Measured Wrong?

NOTA-ECO-075 · Economy 5.0

What If Human Progress Is Being Measured Wrong?

For over a century, societal development has been assessed through one dominant metric: economic growth. This piece questions that yardstick and proposes another.

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NOTA-ECO-076 · Economy 5.0

Venezuela Rises Again Like the Phoenix

What if the country is not broken but reconfiguring itself? A reading of Venezuela's last twelve months through signals that conventional analysis largely overlooks.

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China 2025-2035: The Structural Trap of "Peak China

NOTA-ECO-077 · Economy 5.0

China 2025-2035: The Structural Trap of "Peak China

Beijing speaks of survival, not efficiency. A biophysical reading of China's coming decade: a cornered organism acts to survive, not to optimise.

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Agents of Chaos: When AI Self-Regulates

NOTA-ECO-078 · Economy 5.0

Agents of Chaos: When AI Self-Regulates

A critical network governed by autonomous agents following different protocols. The piece examines the point where algorithmic self-regulation stops protecting and starts failing.

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The Libertarians? Freedom on Sale?

NOTA-ECO-080 · Economy 5.0

The Libertarians? Freedom on Sale?

A critical interrogation of libertarian promises: freedom without preparation yields no awareness. A review of why the human being is the key and also the neglected link.

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Chinese Menu in 2026

NOTA-ECO-083 · Economy 5.0

Chinese Menu in 2026

While attention focused on the dollar war, China's rural banks piled up 1.35 million repossessed properties in court auctions. An anatomy of a risk nobody was watching.

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Two Books, One Framework: Official Release

NOTA-ECO-085 · Economy 5.0

Two Books, One Framework: Official Release

Inverted Economy: From GDP to Human Wellbeing and Biophysics: The Limits of Humanity are now on Amazon. One questions how we measure progress; the other, where our limits lie.

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OSF-ECO-086 · Economy 5.0

IEAbio: the adaptive biological energy index

IEAbio measures how much individuals, organisations and societies can sustain under accumulated systemic friction: a post-GDP reading of the real capacity to act, innovate and adapt

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Venezuela: From Political Storm to Ecological Challenge

NOTA-ECO-087 · Economy 5.0

Venezuela: From Political Storm to Ecological Challenge

An analysis of the structural barrier holding back investment in Venezuela: not only politics and sanctions, but an environmental liability that conditions any economic reconstruction.

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Why Do Banks Fail If They Are So Heavily Regulated?

NOTA-ECO-089 · Economy 5.0

Why Do Banks Fail If They Are So Heavily Regulated?

Starting from an imaginary bank built on 100 dollars, the piece shows how regulator-approved leverage turns a tiny loan book into a systemic risk of collapse.

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Economy 5.0: The Future That Has Already Begun

NOTA-ECO-091 · Economy 5.0

Economy 5.0: The Future That Has Already Begun

C. J. Pérez Pulido introduces Economy 5.0, a framework for the era now opening before us. Published on OSF under DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/X62EF4 from the ISHEA Institute.

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VenezuelaTrust: Transparency or Collapse?

NOTA-ECO-092 · Economy 5.0

VenezuelaTrust: Transparency or Collapse?

Despite being an oil power, Venezuela remains trapped in an economic black hole. The piece frames the choice at stake: traceability of public revenue, or a collapse repeated indefinitely.

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Venezuela Is Not a Frozen Meal

NOTA-ECO-093 · Economy 5.0

Venezuela Is Not a Frozen Meal

A reading of Secretary of State Marco Rubio's hearing: Washington is no longer hinting, it is announcing. The piece argues that Venezuela's transition admits no recipes served from abroad.

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Chapter II. The U.S. Did Not Ban CBDCs by Mistake

NOTA-ECO-094 · Economy 5.0

Chapter II. The U.S. Did Not Ban CBDCs by Mistake

While 135 countries race toward state-backed digital currencies, Washington closed that door. The second chapter reads the ban as a deliberate move to defend the dollar's monetary hegemony.

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NOTA-ECO-095 · Economy 5.0

What if the MIT paper on the end of firms didn't go far enough?

MIT and Harvard propose the Coasean Singularity: AI agents will render firms obsolete by erasing transaction costs. The claim holds, yet the analysis stops short of where the real rupture begins.

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U.S.: The Return of the Jedi and the Restoration Doctrine

NOTA-ECO-096 · Economy 5.0

U.S.: The Return of the Jedi and the Restoration Doctrine

Same map, same goals, different noise. Reading the postwar order as a galaxy, this piece traces how Washington is rebuilding an architecture of peace it once designed and later let erode.

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Transition and Time: The Keys to Venezuela's Process

NOTA-ECO-097 · Economy 5.0

Transition and Time: The Keys to Venezuela's Process

Two forces govern Venezuela today: transition and time. This piece separates them to explain why reading the process without them turns political change into a matter of guesswork.

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Power Does Not Think. It Reacts

NOTA-ECO-099 · Economy 5.0

Power Does Not Think. It Reacts

Geopolitics read as neurobiology on a state scale: the real board is not on the maps but in the reptilian brain of nations, where power is only another word for security.

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From Futile to Useful Politics (Cap-I)

NOTA-ECO-100 · Economy 5.0

From Futile to Useful Politics (Cap-I)

Opening chapter: futile comes from the Latin futilis, a vessel that cannot hold what it carries. With honey as its metaphor, the piece asks why both sides keep failing and why we keep accepting it.

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Donroe Policy: The Protectorate Is Here

NOTA-ECO-101 · Economy 5.0

Donroe Policy: The Protectorate Is Here

At Mar-a-Lago on 3 January 2026, Trump said it plainly: “We're going to run it.” The piece reads that sentence as the Monroe Doctrine returning in the shape of an economic protectorate.

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This Is Not the Age of AI, It Is the Age of Creators

NOTA-ECO-102 · Economy 5.0

This Is Not the Age of AI, It Is the Age of Creators

A short essay that shifts the focus from technology to the people using it: the decisive line no longer separates human from algorithm, but consumer from creator who stops waiting for permission.

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2025: Cards on the Table. SEC III

NOTA-ECO-104 · Economy 5.0

2025: Cards on the Table. SEC III

Third instalment of the SEC series: 2025 opens amid a global realignment that redraws geopolitics, yet the pattern persists — wars, stalled diplomacy and authoritarian drift.

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The Wreck-It Policy: The 2025 NSS Confirms the Framework

NOTA-ECO-106 · Economy 5.0

The Wreck-It Policy: The 2025 NSS Confirms the Framework

The 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy explicitly validates the Wreck-It Policy framework. What was read as an analyst's hypothesis now appears, on the record, as official doctrine.

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LEXSALUTE: Mental Health as Public Policy, Not a Luxury

NOTA-ECO-107 · Economy 5.0

LEXSALUTE: Mental Health as Public Policy, Not a Luxury

New Zealand's new Cognitive Wellbeing Budget treats mental health as state infrastructure. The 2025 case reads as evidence that caring for the mind is what keeps an economy standing.

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LEXSTATE: When the State Enables Instead of Imposing

NOTA-ECO-109 · Economy 5.0

LEXSTATE: When the State Enables Instead of Imposing

Estonia launches its Digital Trust System and social legitimacy climbs 41% in six months. The 2025 case suggests a state that enables governs better than one that imposes.

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LEXAVARY: when the collective narrative counts

NOTA-ECO-114 · Economy 5.0

LEXAVARY: when the collective narrative counts

The LEX marker in its communicational dimension: in Argentina, a slogan circulating through art and memes stops being a label and becomes a measurable collective pulse against austerity.

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Nepal 2025: A Living Laboratory of Cognitive Resilience

NOTA-ECO-117 · Economy 5.0

Nepal 2025: A Living Laboratory of Cognitive Resilience

Youth protests, unemployment and militarisation read as a system under stress, where knowledge (K) emerges as the variable explaining whether a country holds together or collapses.

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Geopolitics or Finance? No: Cognition

NOTA-ECO-119 · Economy 5.0

Geopolitics or Finance? No: Cognition

De-dollarisation, gold and cryptocurrencies read as phenomena of collective trust: what moves through the markets is, before capital, the shared cognition of those who decide.

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The Family of Specialized LEX Systems

NOTA-ECO-120 · Economy 5.0

The Family of Specialized LEX Systems

After introducing LEX as the compass that shows whether a system spends its energy on reaction or invests it in creation, this piece maps the specialised variants of the family.

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LEX as the Compass of Economy 5.0

NOTA-ECO-121 · Economy 5.0

LEX as the Compass of Economy 5.0

Why the same shock leads one system to collapse and another to resilience: LEX measures how available energy is distributed between reaction and creation within Economy 5.0.

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LEX, the Compass of Economy 5.0

NOTA-ECO-122 · Economy 5.0

LEX, the Compass of Economy 5.0

The LEX system explains why one and the same shock produces collapse in one case and resilience in another: it all depends on how energy is split between reacting and creating.

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What Is LEX? A Framework for Reading Collective Stress

NOTA-ECO-123 · Economy 5.0

What Is LEX? A Framework for Reading Collective Stress

LEX is a conceptual framework for detecting patterns of stress within systems and tracking how that stress turns into political, social and economic action before it becomes a crisis.

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OSF-ECO-125 · Economy 5.0

Economy 5.0: the living market, a QR biodigital flow design

The visual identity of the Economy 5.0 framework: a QR-embedded circuit where information is energy and neural lines trace value flowing through human–AI networks, anchored by the Δ+1 symbol.

Work 2025 OSF 282 words

OSF-ECO-126 · Economy 5.0

Venezuela: a proposal for a possible country

An ISHEA Institute proposal that rethinks Venezuela through Economy 5.0: the vision of a possible country in which energy, knowledge and systemic coherence come before resource rent.

Work 2025 OSF 1.518 words

OSF-ECO-127 · Economy 5.0

The U.S. economy through the lens of the K-Model

A reading of the United States economy through the K-Model: it measures the knowledge density that sustains growth and shows where apparent expansion parts from its productive base

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Venezuela Hub 5.0: From Oil to Knowledge

NOTA-ECO-128 · Economy 5.0

Venezuela Hub 5.0: From Oil to Knowledge

A proposal for structural transformation in Venezuela: not restoring the rentier model, but replacing it with resilient education and a knowledge-based economy.

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House of Cards

NOTA-ECO-129 · Economy 5.0

House of Cards

When the masks come off, markets reveal their real structure: behind flawless narratives usually hides a fragility that no story can hold up for long.

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NOTA-ECO-131 · Economy 5.0

Is Ecopetrol on Its Way to Becoming the New PDVSA?

The warning of an energy bomb in Colombia, examined against the data: where political alarm ends and Ecopetrol's real structural risk begins.

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I Am Key: The Continent's Greatest Energy Paradox

NOTA-ECO-134 · Economy 5.0

I Am Key: The Continent's Greatest Energy Paradox

Brazil, Guyana, Suriname and Argentina are hailed as the new stars of oil while the continent leaves its own energy poverty unsolved: the contradiction no one names in the meeting rooms.

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OSF-ECO-135 · Economy 5.0

A current account for intangible assets in Economy 5.0

An accounting proposal to record knowledge and other intangible assets in a current account of their own, a necessary condition for any post-GDP measure of value.

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The Human Is No Longer a Producer: Economy 5.0 Is Born

NOTA-ECO-136 · Economy 5.0

The Human Is No Longer a Producer: Economy 5.0 Is Born

The real revolution is not more technology but a new economic structure: from the industrial model of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to Economy 5.0, where people are no longer defined by their output.

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The K-Model: A Cognitive Architecture Built on LEX-ISHEA

NOTA-ECO-139 · Economy 5.0

The K-Model: A Cognitive Architecture Built on LEX-ISHEA

Not a formula but a living framework: the K-Model turns narrative analysis into a cognitive architecture for reading the world and expanding what we are willing to count as well-being.

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OSF-ECO-144 · Economy 5.0

Economy 5.0: narrative edition

The narrative edition of the Economy 5.0 book: a full structured account of the methodology, the ISHEA Index variables, their validation and their implementation.

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OSF-ECO-146 · Economy 5.0

Economy 5.0: academic edition of the ISHEA system

The reference edition of Economy 5.0: a fully structured treatment of the methodology, the ISHEA Index variables, their statistical validation and their implementation.

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Economy 5.0: the ISHEA Index and the TACC cycle

OSF-ECO-147 · Economy 5.0

Economy 5.0: the ISHEA Index and the TACC cycle

A proposal built on two original tools: the ISHEA Index, a post-GDP metric combining well-being, sustainability and governance, and TACC, a cognitive cycle for acting under stress.

Work 2025 OSF 408 words

OSF-ECO-148 · Economy 5.0

Principle Plus One (+1): zero as a threshold of renewal

A universal rule of systemic transition: every closure or entropy point opens a further cycle. Integrated into the ISHEA Index, the ICC and the K-Model, it reads resilience as regeneration.

Work 2025 OSF 107 words

OSF-ECO-149 · Economy 5.0

K-Model: a modular open-science framework for complex systems

A modular open-science framework for analysing and anticipating the behaviour of complex systems: it integrates the TACC–ICC circuit and the LEX subsystems over a panel of some 150 countries, 2015–2024.

Work 2025 OSF 227 words

OSF-ECO-150 · Economy 5.0

ISHEA–K–LEX: measuring human development beyond GDP

Building on Maslow, Sen and Raworth, the index weights well-being, adjusted progress, ecological sustainability and the role of the state, adding fiscal penalty and institutional anchors.

Work 2025 OSF 3.818 words

OSF-ECO-151 · Economy 5.0

The K-Model: core framework for human well-being and cognition

Preregistration of the K-Model: hypotheses, falsification criteria and design for a longitudinal panel of some 150 countries (2015–2024) linking TACC, KTR and the LEX subsystems to collective behavior.

Work 2025 OSF 7.854 words