Research & Inquiry

I have spent much of my childhood trying to understand why we are taught to learn the same ideas over and over again, each time under a different name. What began as a way to save time for piano practice gradually became a habit of rebuilding entire subjects around the principles connecting them. I first did this with mathematics, then carried the same questions into economics, research, and public policy. I am interested in what happens when we stop treating formulas, markets, institutions, and people's lives as separate problems and begin examining the relationships among them.